[speech delivered in Romanian]
Football addiction. Violence. Second family. Low-income & low-education. Social involvement. Playfulness. Urban trends & fashion. Protests. Which are true and which are myths about the ultras social phenomenon?

When talking about preconceptions and stigmas, how many of us truly know what an ultras really is? Is the love for football sometimes taken to extremes? Football unites people who share the love for the same team into the same side.

They are people just like us - have you ever thought that, maybe, your doctor, you child's headteacher, the guy who is washing your car might be an "ultras"?

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Dinu Guțu is a unique anthropologist. He has the inside perspective on the culture of the ultras phenomena, as a member of it, and this was even the topic of his PhD paper (The last men. The ethnography of a terrace, 2015), written based on an ethnographic research among the Ultras Dinamo group.

At the same time, he recently become a novelist and is by now a successful cultural journalist with various articles published in both local and international academic publications and local press. Dinu Guțu is a unique anthropologist. He has the inside perspective on the culture of the ultras phenomena, as a member of it, and this was even the topic of his PhD paper (The last men. The ethnography of a terrace, 2015), written based on an ethnographic research among the Ultras Dinamo group.

At the same time, he recently become a novelist and is by now a successful cultural journalist with various articles published in both local and international academic publications and also on platforms like Vice, Casa Jurnalistului, Art7.fm, Platzforma. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]

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