The colours of Belgium
Red devils and the representation of diversity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19005192 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Martiniello (0000-0002-8707-1578), G Boucher (0000-0002-8203-4559, ORCID) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 224-235 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1472-586X • E-ISSN: 1472-5878 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1472586x.2017.1358591 |
| OpenAlex | W2750521890 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article examines the recent and huge support for the Belgian national football team, the Red Devils, during the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 football Euro tournaments. The upsurge in support for the Red Devils came as a surprise in a divided country in which national identity is very weak, and where the issue of the lack of societal integration is often discussed. The discussion shows the complexity of a super-diverse Belgian society and, relying on theories of ethnicity, identities and on approaches of everyday multiculturalism, presents several hypotheses to explain the sudden rise in support for the national football team. It also stresses the importance of market forces in developing the brand, ‘Red Devils’. Altogether, the article is a plea in favour of including visual approaches in our research design to make sense of social change in super-diverse societies
Aesthetics · Art · Geography · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Financial Crisis of the 21st Century · Law
Ethnic groups and boundaries
Multiculturalism and the Arts in European Cities
Living together in multi-ethnic neighbourhoods
Young People and Everyday Multiculturalism
Multicultural Citizenship
The Rules of Sociological Method
Super-diversity vs. assimilation
The New Second Generation
Ethnic Options
Everyday multiculturalism
Super-diversity and its implications
Visual sociology approaches in migration, ethnic and racial studies
Super-diverse street
Ethnic leadership, ethnic communities' political powerlessness and the state in Belgium
Symbolic ethnicity
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |