Israeli Football (eBook)

Culture, Politics, and Identity

Yair Galily, Ilan Tamir (Herausgeber)

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2021
128 Seiten
Taylor and Francis (Verlag)
978-1-000-42592-5 (ISBN)

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Israeli Football: Culture, Politics, and Identity focuses on the diverse aspects of the evolution of Israeli football and the social effects of these on-going processes.In the span of nine decades, Israeli football has become a faithful representation of society and its key developments. The organizational structure of the teams and their ethnic composition, fans' chants and behaviors in the stands, gender-related issues, media involvement, and other issues have reflected important societal trends and transformations. Examples of such trends include a shift from political to private ownership of football teams, a shift from Ashkenazi to Sephardi dominance, increasing diversification of the national team - from exclusive Jewish presence to a significant presence of Arab players, including a non-Jewish captain of the national team, a shift from local-based to global-based fandom. These changes, reflecting major milestones in the evolution of Israeli football, did not occur in a vacuum but rather were integrally related to broader local and global trends. These effects may even have had a reciprocal nature, where developments in the sport sphere also affected the public sphere and prepared the ground for social change.The chapters in this book were first published as a special issue of the journal Israel Affairs.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.7.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-000-42592-4 / 1000425924
• ISBN-13: 978-1-000-42592-5 / 9781000425925