Amir Ben Porat
Biographic Data
| ID | 4221099 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amir Ben Porat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amir Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Porat |
| SIGNATURE | BEN PORAT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Palimpsest: Women write about football
The Grass is Greener: First steps of professionalism in Israeli football
During the first decade of the State of Israel (1950s), football was the most popular sport in the country. Yet at the time football in Israel was governed by political interests and was non-professional as well, such that players could not receive any material remuneration and were expected to be loyal to the club and the state. Nevertheless, a few players left their clubs and their country and travelled abroad to play as professionals. This act…
Football 'Made in Israel
This article reviews the history of Israeli football from 1948 to the present and argues that Israeli football is ‘made in Israel’ according to the particular historical opportunities that determine the ‘relative autonomy’ of the game in a given period. The first part deals with a period (the 1950s) in which football was subject to politics, the dominant force in Israeli society at the time. During that period, Israeli football was organized by t…
Cosi (non) Fan Tutte: Women’s football ‘made in Israel’
This paper, based on field work, focuses on the relationships between football, femininity and gender, specifically on how an Israeli female footballer describes, evaluates and interprets her status. The underlying assumption of this study is that in accordance with the status of women’s football, female players enjoy ‘relative autonomy’ dictated by their surroundings. In practice, their surroundings are male dominated: football institutions (loc…
Asia and the future of football: The role of the Asian Football Confederation
The game of (modern) football was born in England and transmitted across the globe by itinerant British soldiers, civilians and missionaries. As this book indicates, Asian societies began to be pro
The Usual Suspect: A History of Football Violence in the State of Israel
Rather than hooliganism per se, violence here is examined both in its totality and the extent to which the history of football violence in Israel has been subject to a fluctuating social, political and economic context. Initially, footballers were 'the usual suspect' as violence was often incited by the players on the pitch. For political reasons, the Israel Football Association (IFA) was practically helpless. Over time, violent incidents on the …
Who are we? My club? My people? My state? The dilemma of the Arab soccer fan in Israel
This paper deals with the problematic identity of the Arab male fans of Bnei Sakhnin F.C., which is an Arab soccer club in the city of Sakhnin, Israel. Seemingly, the Bnei Sakhnin F.C. male fan identifies with his club for the same reasons as every other football fan in Israel. However, as an Arab and minority in a state that is in continuous strife with his people - the Palestinians - his fandom and hence his identity as a fan is inevitably affe…
From community to commodity: The commodification of football in Israel
This paper chronicles the process of football's commodification in Israel. The contours of the football story in Israel were sketched by the dominant society. In 1948, the year the State of Israel was established, football was a political–community project. The local club was controlled by the club's members and by the specific sports federation (there were three state-wide political federations), which was affiliated with a particular political …
Football fandom: A bounded identification
Identity as a concept and as a practice differs from what it was assumed in the past. The literature pertaining to this concept and its practices is very sceptical: identity is unstable and undergoing a continuous process of construction and reconstruction, and the modern‐postmodern individual must realize and accept this volatile situation. This essay deals with a relatively safer basis for identity: football fandom. Studies on global football f…
Between Class and Nation: The Formation of the Jewish Working Class in the Period Before Israel's Statehood
[No abstract available]
Football fandom: A bounded identification
Identity as a concept and as a practice differs from what it was assumed in the past. The literature pertaining to this concept and its practices is very sceptical: identity is unstable and undergoing a continuous process of construction and reconstruction, and the modern‐postmodern individual must realize and accept this volatile situation. This essay deals with a relatively safer basis for identity: football fandom. Studies on global football f…
From community to commodity: The commodification of football in Israel
This paper chronicles the process of football's commodification in Israel. The contours of the football story in Israel were sketched by the dominant society. In 1948, the year the State of Israel was established, football was a political–community project. The local club was controlled by the club's members and by the specific sports federation (there were three state-wide political federations), which was affiliated with a particular political …
The Usual Suspect: A History of Football Violence in the State of Israel
Rather than hooliganism per se, violence here is examined both in its totality and the extent to which the history of football violence in Israel has been subject to a fluctuating social, political and economic context. Initially, footballers were 'the usual suspect' as violence was often incited by the players on the pitch. For political reasons, the Israel Football Association (IFA) was practically helpless. Over time, violent incidents on the …
Who are we? My club? My people? My state? The dilemma of the Arab soccer fan in Israel
This paper deals with the problematic identity of the Arab male fans of Bnei Sakhnin F.C., which is an Arab soccer club in the city of Sakhnin, Israel. Seemingly, the Bnei Sakhnin F.C. male fan identifies with his club for the same reasons as every other football fan in Israel. However, as an Arab and minority in a state that is in continuous strife with his people - the Palestinians - his fandom and hence his identity as a fan is inevitably affe…
Cosi (non) Fan Tutte: Women’s football ‘made in Israel’
This paper, based on field work, focuses on the relationships between football, femininity and gender, specifically on how an Israeli female footballer describes, evaluates and interprets her status. The underlying assumption of this study is that in accordance with the status of women’s football, female players enjoy ‘relative autonomy’ dictated by their surroundings. In practice, their surroundings are male dominated: football institutions (loc…
Between Class and Nation: The Formation of the Jewish Working Class in the Period Before Israel's Statehood
[No abstract available]
Football fandom: A bounded identification
Identity as a concept and as a practice differs from what it was assumed in the past. The literature pertaining to this concept and its practices is very sceptical: identity is unstable and undergoing a continuous process of construction and reconstruction, and the modern‐postmodern individual must realize and accept this volatile situation. This essay deals with a relatively safer basis for identity: football fandom. Studies on global football f…
From community to commodity: The commodification of football in Israel
This paper chronicles the process of football's commodification in Israel. The contours of the football story in Israel were sketched by the dominant society. In 1948, the year the State of Israel was established, football was a political–community project. The local club was controlled by the club's members and by the specific sports federation (there were three state-wide political federations), which was affiliated with a particular political …
Who are we? My club? My people? My state? The dilemma of the Arab soccer fan in Israel
This paper deals with the problematic identity of the Arab male fans of Bnei Sakhnin F.C., which is an Arab soccer club in the city of Sakhnin, Israel. Seemingly, the Bnei Sakhnin F.C. male fan identifies with his club for the same reasons as every other football fan in Israel. However, as an Arab and minority in a state that is in continuous strife with his people - the Palestinians - his fandom and hence his identity as a fan is inevitably affe…
The Usual Suspect: A History of Football Violence in the State of Israel
Rather than hooliganism per se, violence here is examined both in its totality and the extent to which the history of football violence in Israel has been subject to a fluctuating social, political and economic context. Initially, footballers were 'the usual suspect' as violence was often incited by the players on the pitch. For political reasons, the Israel Football Association (IFA) was practically helpless. Over time, violent incidents on the …
Asia and the future of football: The role of the Asian Football Confederation
The game of (modern) football was born in England and transmitted across the globe by itinerant British soldiers, civilians and missionaries. As this book indicates, Asian societies began to be pro
Cosi (non) Fan Tutte: Women’s football ‘made in Israel’
This paper, based on field work, focuses on the relationships between football, femininity and gender, specifically on how an Israeli female footballer describes, evaluates and interprets her status. The underlying assumption of this study is that in accordance with the status of women’s football, female players enjoy ‘relative autonomy’ dictated by their surroundings. In practice, their surroundings are male dominated: football institutions (loc…
Football 'Made in Israel
This article reviews the history of Israeli football from 1948 to the present and argues that Israeli football is ‘made in Israel’ according to the particular historical opportunities that determine the ‘relative autonomy’ of the game in a given period. The first part deals with a period (the 1950s) in which football was subject to politics, the dominant force in Israeli society at the time. During that period, Israeli football was organized by t…
The Grass is Greener: First steps of professionalism in Israeli football
During the first decade of the State of Israel (1950s), football was the most popular sport in the country. Yet at the time football in Israel was governed by political interests and was non-professional as well, such that players could not receive any material remuneration and were expected to be loyal to the club and the state. Nevertheless, a few players left their clubs and their country and travelled abroad to play as professionals. This act…
Palimpsest: Women write about football
Football (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Sociology of sport (5 works)