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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| author | Dorsey, James M. |
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| description | 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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| spelling | ntu-10356/1049502020-11-01T08:40:04Z Constructing national identity : the muscular Jew vs the Palestinian underdog Dorsey, James M. S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science 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. 2015-06-11T09:29:16Z 2019-12-06T21:43:21Z 2015-06-11T09:29:16Z 2019-12-06T21:43:21Z 2015 2015 Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104950 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25870 en RSIS Working Papers, 290-15 NTU 30 p. application/pdf |
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| title | Constructing national identity : the muscular Jew vs the Palestinian underdog |
| title_full | Constructing national identity : the muscular Jew vs the Palestinian underdog |
| title_fullStr | Constructing national identity : the muscular Jew vs the Palestinian underdog |
| title_full_unstemmed | Constructing national identity : the muscular Jew vs the Palestinian underdog |
| title_short | Constructing national identity : the muscular Jew vs the Palestinian underdog |
| title_sort | constructing national identity the muscular jew vs the palestinian underdog |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science |
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