Performing nations, disrupting states: sporting identities in nations without states

MacLean, Malcolm; Field, Russell

doi:10.1080/14608944.2014.930427

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“…Thus, this paper highlights the lives of female footballers in a non-state (or incomplete-state) nation, too rare in sport studies (Field, 2014;MacLean & Field, 2014). In the case of Palestine, there is potential for a reorientation of our understanding of some important elements of this incomplete state, for challenging the conventional gendering of organised sport, and for recognising the authentic sense of agency achieved by the female football players central to this study.…”

Section: A Short History Of Conflicts On the West Bankmentioning

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‘We can!’ – women’s football in the Occupied West Bank

Lippe

2020

European Journal for Sport and Society

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In this article, I will highlight and discuss the following issues: How do players experience football as a way of normalising crisis during occupation? How do players experience the sense of honour when playing for Palestine? 17 footballers from one of the best clubs in the West Bank, 'Sareyyet Ramalla' (Ramallah Sport Club) are interviewed. The article invites each of the players to be a public actor in the context of fragments of her life. The troubled status of their nation forms a backdrop to their personal sense of national identity in a global male-dominated game. Pierre Bourdieu's arbitrary two-sexed model of gender relations and power plays also a role in this article.

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Section: A Short History Of Conflicts On the West Bankmentioning

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‘We can!’ – women’s football in the Occupied West Bank

Lippe

2020

European Journal for Sport and Society

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“…26 The challenge is given succinct expression by Maclean and Field in identifying a taken-for-granted association between sport and nation and between nation and state to the extent that much of academic discussion of sport and nation conflates them as if they are synonyms, otherwise fails to make the distinction between nation and state or accepts that in hegemonic or other dominant discourses the state is the proper political vessel for the nation. 27 What follows outlines a more nuanced understanding of the role of state and nation in sport that facilitates diplomatic practice leading to a networked understanding of sport and diplomacy reflecting the panoply of domestic, international, and transnational actors involved.…”

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Sport and Diplomacy: A Global Diplomacy Framework

Rofe

2016

Diplomacy & Statecraft

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Abstract. The range of actors, or "players", involved in the transactions of diplomacy occasioned by sport are manifold. In the case of the world"s "global game" -association football -they include but are not limited to individual footballers, football clubs, national leagues, national associations, football"s international governance structures, multi-national sponsors, and numerous hangers on. Importantly for this analysis, such a panoply of actors creates an architecture, replicated across other sports, which speak to the necessity of furthering the understanding of the relationship between sport and diplomacy. These two phenomena share a long-standing similarity in global affairs; both having been over-looked as means of comprehending relations between different polities otherwise centred on the nation-state. This exegesis advances our understanding in two areas. First, it addresses the parameters of the discussion of "sport and diplomacy" and problematises the discourse between the two with a note on language; and second, it utilises a framework provided by an appreciation of "global diplomacy" to explore concepts of communication, representation, and negotiation in sport and diplomacy.

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Bairner¹

2023

National Identities

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Performing nations, disrupting states: sporting identities in nations without states

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‘We can!’ – women’s football in the Occupied West Bank

‘We can!’ – women’s football in the Occupied West Bank

Sport and Diplomacy: A Global Diplomacy Framework

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