Palestinian football and national identity under occupation

Football fandom and post-national identity in the New Europe.

Through European club football, we can begin to detect the outlines of a new Europe of competing cities and regions which are being disembedded from their national contexts into new transnational matrices. Focusing on a specific network of Manchester United fans, broadly located in the city of Manchester, this article examines the development of European consciousness among this group of indivi...

Transformations in National Identity through Football in Brazil: Lessons from Two Historical Defeats1

In many Latin American countries football has been central to the formation of identities in the twentieth century, whether these be national, ethnic, local, generational, or gender identities. In this light, a comparison between the explanations given for the Brazilian defeat in the 1950 World Cup, which took place in Brazil itself, and that in the 1998 World Cup Final in France can serve as a...

The Role of Palestinian National Authority Institutions in Society Building and Empowerment of the Palestinian People

American football and national pride: Racial differences.

Over the past four decades, scholars from diverse disciplines have consistently emphasized the role of sport in expressing, reflecting, or producing national sentiments (Abell et al., 2007; Bairner, 2001; Ehn, 1989; Gibbons, 2011; MacClancy, 1996; Marks, 1998; Solis, 1996; Sorek, 2007; Tuastad, 1997; van Hilvoorde et al., 2010). Both sport and national identity, however, are “contested racial t...

Body Management and Youth National Identity (Case Study: Sari Youth)

Identity in recent decades, especially in social and national dimension, as one of the most key components of humanities and social sciences, considered very deeply by experts and scientists. This article attempts to examine national identity in the sphere of culture globalization and worldwide consumption culture. Because this culture includes different dimension, the article has done by the p...