WHY MINORITIES PLAY OR DON'T PLAY SOCCER by Kausik Bandyopadhyay (Editor) ( 9780415518154 )

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WHY MINORITIES PLAY OR DON'T PLAY SOCCER
A GLOBAL EXPLORATION

By:

Kausik Bandyopadhyay (Editor)

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0415518156

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

21 December, 2011

Series:

Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives

Pages:

220

Description:

This volume looks at why minorities choose to participate in, or stay away from, soccer, thereby linking the issue to the status of the minorities in the political, social, cultural or economic life of a nation.

Synopsis:

Soccer, the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, has always remained a marker of identities of various sorts. Behind the facade of its obvious entertainment aspect, it has proved to be a perpetuating reflector of nationalism, ethnicity, community or communal identity, and cultural specificity. Naturally therefore, the game is a complex representative of minorities' status especially in countries where minorities play a crucial role in political, social, cultural or economic life. The question is also important since in many nations success in sports like soccer has been used as an instrument for assimilation or to promote an alternative brand of nationalism. Thus, Jewish teams in pre-Second World War Europe were set up to promote the idea of a muscular Jewish identity. Similarly, in apartheid South Africa, soccer became the game of the black majority since it was excluded from the two principal games of the country - rugby and cricket. In India, on the other hand, the Muslim minorities under colonial rule appropriated soccer to assert their community-identity.The book examines why in certain countries, minorities chose to take up the sport while in others they backed away from participating in the game or, alternatively, set up their own leagues and practised self-exclusion. The book examines European countries like the Netherlands, England and France, the USA, Africa, Australia and the larger countries of Asia - particularly India. This book was previously published as a special issue of Soccer and Society.

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