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Title: | Constructing national identity : the muscular Jew vs the Palestinian underdog | Authors: | Dorsey, James M. | Keywords: | DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science | Issue Date: | 2015 | Series/Report no.: | RSIS Working Papers, 290-15 | Abstract: | 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. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104950 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25870 |
Schools: | S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies | Rights: | NTU | Fulltext Permission: | open | Fulltext Availability: | With Fulltext |
Appears in Collections: | RSIS Working Papers |
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