Arab Soccer in a Jewish State: The Integrative Enclave by Tamir Sorek; Cambridge

Sorek, Tamir

ISBN 10: 0521870488 / ISBN 13: 9780521870481

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2007

About this Item

Very good condition. Text looks free of notations/underlining. Light shelf wear to the dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 091426017

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Arab Soccer in a Jewish State: The Integrative Enclave by Tamir Sorek; Cambridge
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521870488
• ISBN 13: 9780521870481
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 18 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • soc

About this title

Synopsis

Over the last two decades soccer has become a major institution within the popular culture of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel. They have attained disproportionate success in this field. Given their marginalisation from many areas of Israeli society as well as the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, such a prominent Arab presence highlights the tension between their Israeli citizenship and their belonging to the Palestinian people. Bringing together sociological, anthropological and historical approaches, Sorek examines how soccer can potentially be utilised by ethnic and national minorities as a field of social protest, a stage for demonstrating distinctive identity, or as a channel for social and political integration. Relying on a rich combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, he argues that equality in the soccer sphere legitimises contemporary inequality between Jews and Arabs in Israel and pursues wider arguments about the role of sport in ethno-national conflicts. Ideal for researchers and graduate students.

Book Description

The growing success of Arab soccer teams and players in Israel highlights fundamental tensions and contradictions in Israeli collective identity and in Arab-Jewish relations. This book analyses the political significance of sport in ethno-national conflicts and argues that equality in the soccer sphere legitimises contemporary inequality between Jews and Arabs.