Football Sub-Culture and Youth Politics in Algeria

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12589056
AutoresMohamed Amara (0000-0002-1418-6710, Loughborough University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen17
Número1
Páginas41-58
Fecha de publicación2012-02-21
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMediterranean Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1362-9395 • E-ISSN: 1743-9418
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13629395.2012.655045
OpenAlexW2116801911
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas8

This paper addresses two connected issues: first, the state's engagement with football in different phases of Algeria's transitions since 1980s (e.g. the end of state's socialist ideology, multipartism and an era of political violence); second, football chanting among young football fans in Algiers – submerged in brutal conflict during the 1990s' – who have found in the internet in general, and social networks (YouTube, Facebook and Dailymotion) in particular, a new medium: (a) to reframe their identity, in opposition to both the institutionalized discourse on youth and political legitimacy, and the imposed realities of geo-politics that constrain their mobility; (b) to express their malaise with the socio-economic conditions; and (c) to construct their future in an ‘imagined elsewhere’

Cognitive reframing · Football · Ideology · Legitimacy · Media studies · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Gender Studies · Law · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society