Constructing national identity : the muscular Jew vs the Palestinian underdog
Soccer threads itself as a red line through the 20th century history of the Middle East and North Africa as independence populated the region with nation-states. Soccer was important to the leaders struggling for independence as a means to stake claims, develop national identity and fuel anti-col...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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2015
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104950 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25870 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Soccer threads itself as a red line through the 20th century history of the Middle East and
North Africa as independence populated the region with nation-states. Soccer was important
to the leaders struggling for independence as a means to stake claims, develop national
identity and fuel anti-colonial sentiment. For its rulers soccer was a tool they could harness
to shape their nations in their own mould; for its citizenry it was both a popular form of
entertainment and a platform for opposition and resistance.
The sport offers a unique arena for social and political differentiation and the projection of
transnational, national, ethnic, sectarian, local, generational and gender identities sparking a
long list of literature that dates back more than a century. The sport also constitutes a
carnivalesque event that lends itself to provocation of and confrontation with authority —
local, national or colonial. |
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