Between football and martyrdom

The bi-focal localism of an Arab-Palestinian town in Israel

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5609923
AutoresT Sorek (0000-0002-2363-4888, Cornell University, autor correspondente)
Ano2005
Volume56
Fascículo4
Páginas635-661
Data de publicação2005-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoBritish Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-4446.2005.00087.x
PMID16309440
OpenAlexW1989847337
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas22

Studies of the relationship between nationalism and localism have brought evidence that these orientations might maintain either relations of opposition or congruence. By conceiving of localism mainly as a strategy, this paper argues that localism can be used alternately as an anchor of nationalist narrativeoras an alternative to nationalism by the exact same community. This argument is illustrated by the case of Sakhnin, an Arab-Palestinian town in Israel. Local pride in Sakhnin has developed around two separate foci: a nationalist heroic narrative of martyrdom and the success of the local football team. These two foci developed in complete isolation, since the first is embedded in a Palestinian nationalist narrative while the latter is oriented toward the Israeli Jewish public. An ethnographic study follows the construction of these separate spheres and a survey conducted among 174 men in the town confirms that involvement in the football sphere correlates with both local pride and integrative orientations

Argument (complex analysis · Britishness · Football · Literature · Localism · Media studies · Narrative · Nationalism · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Pride · Sociology · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society