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Abstract
17 SK is a community sports club based in Stockholm, Sweden. Its members play different sports, but the football groups are by far the most popular. In this paper, we want to sketch the history of the club and reflect on the aspects of its football activities that seem most relevant from a social and political perspective: gender, integration, community building and matters of organization. We are both co-founders and board members of the club and regularly partake in its activities. The article is therefore mainly based on participatory observation and on numerous discussions we have had with other 17 SK participants over the past three years.
Notes
1.http://forsjutton.se.
2. For an interesting analysis of the riots in English see CitationThörn, “The Stockholm Uprising.”
3.http://forsjutton.se/?page_id = 252.
4. The role of transgender people in sports demands in-depth analysis, something we can, unfortunately, not provide within this text. We will therefore focus on male/female identities. This is not to neglect other identities, but to address issues we feel most competent to address.
5. Planka.fm is an offshoot of Planka.nu, one of Stockholm's most influential activist projects of the 2000s; Planka.nu provides a ‘freerider insurance fund’ and advocates a ‘struggle for free public transportation’ (http://planka.nu/eng).
6.CitationRiksidrottsförbundet, “Idrotten i siffror 2012.”
7.http://expo.se/2010/about-expo_3514.html.
8.CitationWilson, “The Easton Cowboys,” 198.
9. Ibid.
10. Quoted from the US Anarchist Football Association website, anarchistsoccer.pbworks.com, which went offline a few years ago. The association's banner, which includes the quoted slogan, can still be viewed at http://www.infoshop.org/anarchist-football (accessed September 17, 2013).