Games of Belonging
Football, Boundaries and Politics between Germany and Turkey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11048485 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stefan Metzger (0000-0002-4201-852X, corresponding author), Özgür Özvatan (0000-0001-5148-3004, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 737-751 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nationalities Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/nps.2019.4 |
| OpenAlex | W3000900766 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 41 |
International football is a field for national identity performances in which narratives of national belonging are articulated. Games of belonging capture discourses on and debates over national belonging. Up-and-coming national football team diversity, and its public promotion, was expected to facilitate boundary blurring in the politics of belonging; however, it caused highly contentious debates revolving around the question of who belongs to Germany and Turkey and who does not. For this reason, we ask how (ethnoculturally) diverse national football teams challenge established narratives of national belonging and, thereby, trigger debates over national belonging across time and space. We compared the media discourse on national team diversity in Germany and Turkey with a special focus on players who disrupt conceptions of ethnic and cultural homogeneity, namely Mesut Özil and Nuri Şahin. Our study illustrates that upcoming international football events constitute games of belonging. Actors from the media, football associations, and politics largely demanded unilateral national belonging from the disrupters, Özil and Şahin. Both players’ reactions, however, draw on conceptions of (trans-)national belonging which challenge and conflict with established narratives of (ethno-)national belonging
Diversity (politics · Ethnic group · Football · Media studies · Narrative · National identity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
Contentious Performances
The Age of Migration
Critical Discourse Analysis
Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany
The Discourse-Historical Approach
Ethnic groups and boundaries
Cosmopolitan Anxieties
The Invention Of Tradition
The Return of Assimilation? Changing Perspectives on Immigration and its Sequels in France, Germany, and the United States
Das Spiel um Anerkennung
The Age of Migration
The politics of belonging intersectional contestations
Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis
Critical Discourse Analysis
Bright vs. blurred boundaries
Citizenship and identity
The Configuration of Symbolic Boundaries against Immigrants in Europe
The Headscarf Debates
Elementary strategies of ethnic boundary making
The volume and dynamics of international migration and transnational social spaces
Sport, National Identity and Public Policy
Who ate all the pride? Patriotic sentiment and English national football support
On Time and Comparative Research
Why Social Relations Matter for Politics and Successful Societies
Embodying the nation
Extraterritorial authoritarian practices
Everyday nationhood
The globalization of football
Germany
From Guest Workers into Muslims
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Europe's Borders
Power and Resistance in the Governance of World Football
Citizenship and Immigration
The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences
Finally a 'Taste for Diversity'? National Identity, Consumer Discrimination, and the Multi-ethnic German National Football Team
Islam, gender, and immigrant integration
The return of assimilation? Changing perspectives on immigration and its sequels in France, Germany, and the United States
Politics of Nationhood and the Displacement of the Founding Moment
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |