En 2014, Boaventura de Sousa Santos a attiré l’attention de la communauté sociologique sur la nécessité de privilégier « l’humanisation » dans l’examen des solidarités transnationales. Dans cet article, nous décrivons des formes de consommation culturelle du club de football Liverpool FC pour mieux comprendre les sentiments d’amour, de souffrance, de sollicitude et de connaissance éprouvés par les supporters des « Brazil Reds » ou des « Switzerland Reds » (bien que tous les supporters de ces groupes ne soient pas originaires du Brésil ou de la Suisse). Nous suggérons que les termes de classe sociale, d’ethnicité, de genre et surtout de nationalité, dans leur acceptation des pays du nord, sont moins importants comme point de départ de l’analyse que le phénomène d’humanisation par un amour commun voué au club qui permet de renforcer les solidarités transnationales entre les supporters du FC Liverpool. Notre article préconise donc l’utilisation d’épistémologies des pays du sud pour analyser les pratiques de consommation culturelle au quotidien de personnes qui entretiennent une relation amoureuse avec un club de football.

In 2014, Boaventura de Sousa Santos awoke the global sociological community to the need to privilege ‘humanization’ in the exploration of transnational solidarities. This article presents the cultural consumption of a football club – Liverpool FC – to understand the common ‘love’, ‘suffering’, ‘care’ and ‘knowledge’ that fans who are part of the ‘Brazil Reds’ or ‘Switzerland Reds’ (although not all fans engaged in such communities are ‘from’ Brazil or Switzerland) experience. The argument is that the global North lexicon of social class, ethnicity, gender and, especially, nationality is less significant as starting points for analysis than humanization through shared love, which consolidates Liverpool FC fans’ transnational solidarities. Accordingly, the article calls for the epistemologies of the global South to be used to understand the practices of cultural consumption that constitute activities in the sphere of everyday life, such as those involved in ‘love’ for a football club.

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