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This chapter, Outlaws and Supporters, briefly introduces the phenomenon of outlaw motorcycle clubs, as well as the methodological tenets of the study. It argues that scholars have so far ignored the popular support for these organizations, focusing exclusively on outlaw motorcycle clubs and their full-patch members, as if the clubs were self-enclosed independent entities existing in a socioeconomic and cultural void. And yet, it is precisely in understanding the context in which they proliferate that we can best grasp their nature. Setting the stage for the next chapters, it points the readers toward the collusion between the destructive effects of neoliberalism and the transnational expansion of the clubs.

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Kuldova, T. (2019). Outlaws and Supporters. In: How Outlaws Win Friends and Influence People. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15206-2_1

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