Football in Cameroon: A vehicle for the expansion and contraction of identity

Vidacs, Bea

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“…However, when observed more closely, the vast heterogeneity of this mass becomes evident: varying ages, genders, nationalities, ethnicities, classes, religions, and more. This should not be surprising given that an extensive literature on fans and fandom has already shown the complexities of fanship (Clark and Clark, 1982; Cronin and Mayall, 1998; Giulianotti, 1999; MacClancy, 1996; Vidacs, 2000). Football fandom is often considered instrumental to social solidarity at the state level.…”

Section: Football: Club Ethnicity Statementioning

confidence: 98%

Who are we? My club? My people? My state? The dilemma of the Arab soccer fan in Israel

Porat

2012

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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This paper deals with the problematic identity of the Arab male fans of Bnei Sakhnin F.C., which is an Arab soccer club in the city of Sakhnin, Israel. Seemingly, the Bnei Sakhnin F.C. male fan identifies with his club for the same reasons as every other football fan in Israel. However, as an Arab and minority in a state that is in continuous strife with his people -the Palestinians -his fandom and hence his identity as a fan is inevitably affected. The Arab fan of Bnei Sakhnin cannot rest his identity on the club alone. The Arabs' status in Israel, which is imported to the football stadium, stems from identity being heavily connected to ethnicity/nationality. In essential ways, the Arab male fan cannot separate his identity with the club from his ethnicity/nationality. He is foremost an Arab and then a football fan. Consequently, the football league becomes a constant dilemma of identification by posing the question of "Who are we?"

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Section: Football: Club Ethnicity Statementioning

confidence: 98%

Who are we? My club? My people? My state? The dilemma of the Arab soccer fan in Israel

Porat

2012

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…Como apunta Kytölä (2013), la baja penetración de Internet en la sociedad repercute claramente en un menor acceso a la educación. Los datos estadísticos y los estudios sociólogos sobre este país africano nos muestran que los cameruneses son unos apasionados de Facebook -el 50 % de la población con acceso a Internet tiene una cuenta en esta red socialy del fútbol, considerado el deporte rey de Camerún y de toda África (Vidacs 1999). Por tanto, el estudio de interacciones en Facebook sobre fútbol nos puede dar una idea clara y real de cómo se comunican sus habitantes en las redes sociales.…”

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“…Los comentarios de estos clubes no eran suficientes para este estudio y se recurrió a la página Lion Indomptable, de donde se recopilaron más ejemplos publicados en otoño de 2019. Esta página de Facebook de libre acceso con 80 000 seguidores informa de las noticias de la selección nacional camerunesa y de sus jugadores más carismáticos; su nombre hace referencia a 'Los Leones Indomables', Lions Indomptables, como se conoce a la selección de Camerún (Vidacs 1999). De estas fuentes, se ha seleccionado un total de 457 comentarios públicos (2 283 palabras), tras excluir los mensajes formados exclusivamente por resultados de partidos, gifs o emoticonos.…”

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Vamos Nassaras: cambio de código como ejemplo de la apropiación de lengua en conversaciones escritas

Pérez-Sabater

2021

ORALIA

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Este artículo trata de la apropiación del español por parte de comunidades en línea formadas por aficionados al fútbol de Camerún. El análisis de un corpus de comentarios publicados en redes sociales ha consistido en dos fases. Tras un primer estudio, cuyo objetivo ha sido identificar las lenguas más habituales de interacción en estas comunidades de aficionados africanos, se ha realizado un análisis discursivo de los mensajes con cambio de código al español que documenta sus funciones más frecuentes. Los resultados muestran que, en este espacio translingual, los comentarios escritos mayoritariamente en francés incluyen léxico en español para representar ciertas funciones discursivas como la alineación o el afecto; también se elige el español para configurar el nombre que algunos aficionados eligen en redes sociales. La apropiación discursiva del español fuera de su ámbito lingüístico habitual es un hecho constatado en el discurso deportivo recopilado para esta investigación, lo que es novedoso y de interés para la sociolingüística del español.

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“…Football for example is still to produce sustainable nationalism in Argentina particularly in times of conservative neopopulism (Pablo Alabarces & Marìa Graciela Rodríguez, 1999). Although sport is popular in Cameroon, and its development largely led by central government (Joanne Clarke and John Sunday Ojo, 2017), identity politics is present in football Vidacs (1999). These examples suggest that sport is not an absolute instrument in the production of political values.…”

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Sport and Politics in Multiethnic States: A Political Development Approach

Nyongbet¹,

Fame²,

Norbert³

2020

theijhss

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IntroductionOrdinarily, people believe that sport and politics are or should be disconnected. First, sport has been considered and treated as different from politics with primary focus on the health aspect of it and the joy and wellness it produces as a game (Abell et al., 2005). Second, research into politics has not often considered sport as an actual or potential vector of political development-rather; sport is perceived primarily in terms of economic and social benefits. Generally, this is can be due to the fact that the scientific legitimacy of sport in the social sciences and political science in particular is weak. Normative political theorists see dissociation between sport and politics, given that they are governed by separate structures (Cachay, 1988) and therefore perform different functions-with sport seen as regulator of the human body (Acree et al., 2006) and politics perceived as society's regulating mechanism (Easton, 1965;Skocpol, 1992) . Even if that was the case, the precarious nature of multiethnic and divided States would require something in addition to the specialised political structures to mitigate the potential of political instability and conflict. In the much still relevant Politics of the developing areas by Almond and Coleman, sport was not considered as a political vector in political systems and politics never perceived sport as all that significant in the production of political values.However, today, the political reality in multiethnic and divided societies of the developing States shows that not only there is a connection between sport and politics but the two are inseparable and this sometimes leads to the conclusion that sport in itself is politics and politics is sport. In as much as sport provides a forum for political socialization, the political uses sport as a foundation of political values such as nationalism, political development, national unity and political legitimacy. Although sport appears to be an institution on its own in State politics, the reality reflects a manifest association and connection between the two. Sport is not only a vector of human development health wise but a vector of political development through the creation of political institutions that regulate sport matters within States. Sport lays claim on the political and the political is sometimes called to regulate sport. There might be specialized structures governing the sport realm and which are not political in the real sense of the term but governmental structures have intervened to make, apply and adjudicate rules governing sport.The purpose of this paper is to provide further theoretical and empirical evidence of the nexus between sport and politics in modern States with a focus on the role of sport in political development of precarious multiethnic and divided States. We argue that political development is also an outcome of the connection between sport and politics. In addition to the health and physical benefit of sport, there is a holistic political function and political benefit of sp...

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Football in Cameroon: A vehicle for the expansion and contraction of identity

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

Who are we? My club? My people? My state? The dilemma of the Arab soccer fan in Israel

Who are we? My club? My people? My state? The dilemma of the Arab soccer fan in Israel

Vamos Nassaras: cambio de código como ejemplo de la apropiación de lengua en conversaciones escritas

Sport and Politics in Multiethnic States: A Political Development Approach

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