Understanding the Intersectionality of Nation and Race among Female Sports Fans : Focusing on the “Foreign Football” Fandom in South Korea

Key Points

• The research aims to analyze how female football fans in South Korea navigate and transform ethnic and racial boundaries within the context of global sports fandom.
• Conducted digital ethnography on the X (formerly Twitter) platform.
• Utilized in-depth interviews to explore female fans' interactions and subjective experiences.
• Female fans deconstruct nationalist sentiments through emotional connections with athletes and collective resistance against racism experienced by Korean players.
• Simultaneously, they normalize ethnic and racial discourses, selectively responding to racism, resulting in a dual practice of re-establishing boundaries.