A veritable game of the nation: on the changing status of football within the Egyptian national formation in the wake of the 2009 World Cup qualifiers against Algeria

Rommel, Carl

doi:10.1080/21681392.2014.936079

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“…32 At the time of writing, I have conducted almost five years of doctoral and postdoctoral fieldwork in Cairo. The research has primarily been carried out with football journalists, supporters, and coaches (Rommel 2014(Rommel , 2016(Rommel , 2018(Rommel , 2021. In recent years, I have also worked with lower-middle-class men who contrive and launch small business projects (mashari') in central Cairo as well as in satellite cities built in the Eastern and Western Deserts (Rommel, forthcoming).…”

Section: Locating the Nationmentioning

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An Anthropology of Crosslocations

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Lähteenaho,

Douzina-Bakalaki

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An Anthropology of Crosslocations introduces a radical new approach to understanding location. The co-authors show that the question of where something is depends on how places are mutually connected and disconnected. The location of a place can be established by different logics, such as national borders, ecosystems, or economic zones. These different ways of classifying the relative value and significance of a place coexist and overlap: for example, national borders are regularly crosscut by ecosystems. By thinking of 'location' as a process defined by several different coexisting locating regimes, the book showcases a fresh way to think about the multiple and overlapping connections and disconnections between here and elsewhere. This approach can fundamentally revise ethnographic and anthropological views on the importance, value and significance of where people, things and animals are located and, as such, redefines the idea of ‘the field.’ The volume brings together seven anthropologists who have worked together for six years. The chapters take the reader through a series of journeys around the Mediterranean region—to North Africa, the East Mediterranean, and Southern Europe. Each chapter unfolds an ethnographic or historical account of the coexistence of different values and meanings of location in different places.

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An Anthropology of Crosslocations

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Lähteenaho,

Douzina-Bakalaki

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“…The article is part of an ethnographic research project about the emotional politics of Egyptian football, conducted in Cairo between August 2011 and March 2013 (Rommel 2014(Rommel , 2015(Rommel , 2016. In the last five months of this field research period, I came to spend an increasing part of my time at Cairo's youth centers, where I learned to know young players, parents, coaches, and the responsible state employees.…”

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Men in Time

Rommel

2018

Men and Masculinities

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This article explores men at a state-owned youth center in Cairo, struggling to cope with uncertainties and change in the aftermath of Egypt's January 2011 Revolution. Conceptually, the article critically engages anthropologist Laura Bear's suggestion that an ethics of productivity saturate neoliberal masculinity. As my ethnographic stories about football coaches and state bureaucrats illustrate, being a good man recurrently surfaced as a problem of how to work productively in and on time: as ambiguities between discordant futures that left material needs, familiar care, and development of football talents difficult to reconcile. Often, my interlocutors linked this conundrum to a wide-ranging opacity, conjured as "corruption" (fisad). My analysis of this male predicament allows me to spotlight one of the Egyptian revolution's most luring promises: a transparent and meritocratic system, where a 2 man's work would finally be allowed to work on all futures deemed morally and materially significant.

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Egypt

Gibril¹

2018

The Palgrave International Handbook of Football and Politics

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A veritable game of the nation: on the changing status of football within the Egyptian national formation in the wake of the 2009 World Cup qualifiers against Algeria

Cited by 6 publications

References 7 publications

An Anthropology of Crosslocations

An Anthropology of Crosslocations

Men in Time

Egypt

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