Tamir Sorek

Arab Soccer in a Jewish State (eBook, PDF)

The Integrative Enclave

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Over the last two decades soccer has become a major institution within the popular culture of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel. They have attained disproportionate success in this field. Given their marginalisation from many areas of Israeli society as well as the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, such a prominent Arab presence highlights the tension between their Israeli citizenship and their belonging to the Palestinian people. Bringing together sociological, anthropological and historical approaches, Sorek examines how soccer can potentially be utilised by ethnic and national minorities as a field of social protest, a stage for demonstrating distinctive identity, or as a channel for social and political integration. Relying on a rich combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, he argues that equality in the soccer sphere legitimises contemporary inequality between Jews and Arabs in Israel and pursues wider arguments about the role of sport in ethno-national conflicts. Ideal for researchers and graduate students.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511286933
• Artikelnr.: 38206760

Autorenporträt

Tamir Sorek is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Israel Studies at the University of Florida.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Sports, modernity and struggle in Palestine
3. The emergence of the integrative enclave
4. Soccer and municipal 'labor quiet'
5. 'These points are Arab': nationalist rhetoric in the sports press
6. 'Maccabi Haifa is my flag': Arab fans of Jewish teams
7. The Islamic soccer league
8. Sakhnin - between soccer and martyrdom
9. Conclusion.

Rezensionen

‘This is a surprising story of the only sphere in which Arab-Israeli relations do not seem to be in crisis. Sorek has written a subtle and apparently non-partisan account of the place of Arabs in the Jewish state. Thanks to its refreshingly clear prose, this book should have an appeal beyond specialists in the field.’ Simon Kuper, author of Football Against the Enemy