We can!’ – women’s football in the Occupied West Bank

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ID6144831
AuthorsGerd Von Der Lippe (University of South-Eastern Norway, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume17
Issue3
Pages214-230
Publication date2020-07-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal for Sport and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1613-8171 • E-ISSN: 2380-5919
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/16138171.2020.1792073
OpenAlexW3048434476
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited43

In this article, I will highlight and discuss the following issues: How do players experience football as a way of normalising crisis during occupation? How do players experience the sense of honour when playing for Palestine? 17 footballers from one of the best clubs in the West Bank, ‘Sareyyet Ramalla’ (Ramallah Sport Club) are interviewed. The article invites each of the players to be a public actor in the context of fragments of her life. The troubled status of their nation forms a backdrop to their personal sense of national identity in a global male-dominated game. Pierre Bourdieu's arbitrary two-sexed model of gender relations and power plays also a role in this article

Aesthetics · Club · Context (archaeology · Football · Honour · Identity (music · Media studies · Palestine · Political science · Power (physics · Sociology · West bank · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society

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