Nation, State and Football: The Korean Case

Podoler, Guy

doi:10.1080/09523360701701614

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“…Stevenson and Alaug (2008) stated that “even though football is credited with causing a war…sport has been effective at promoting national integration” (p. 2), arguing that cross-border football contests united North and South Yemen in 1990. This kind of evidence was also found in South Korea (Podoler, 2008), Indonesia (Lutan, 2005), and Finland (Tervo, 2001).…”

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Twitter-Based BIRGing: Big Data Analysis of English National Team Fans During the 2018 FIFA World Cup

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Billings

Zhu

et al. 2019

Communication & Sport

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Sports fans tend to associate themselves with a successful team (BIRGing), while disassociating themselves with unsuccessful teams (CORFing). This premise was applied to social media commentary within England’s matches against Croatia and Colombia during the 2018 Fédération Internationale de Football Association World Cup, uncovering that English fans tended to perform Basking in Reflected Glory (BIRG) when England was leading or victorious and tended to engage in Cutting Off Reflected Failure (CORF) when England was trailing or defeated. In Method 1, team identification, national identification with England, and sentiment were significantly higher when England was leading or victorious than when they were trailing or defeated. In Method 2, machine learning generated trending graphs to detect that English fans BIRGed when they scored against Colombia; they also BIRGed more frequently during the match with Croatia, peaking several times when they scored a goal, saved a goal, or took a free kick. However, even though CORFing (i.e., lower team identification, lower national identification, and lower sentiment) occurred when the opposing team scored, English fans still BIRGed when they were finally defeated by Croatia, likely a function of the stage the game took place (World Cup semifinal), indicating that England had nonetheless succeeded in the World Cup as a whole.

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Section: Identification and Sitsupporting

confidence: 65%

Twitter-Based BIRGing: Big Data Analysis of English National Team Fans During the 2018 FIFA World Cup

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Billings

Zhu

et al. 2019

Communication & Sport

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“…114 Giulianotti andRobertson 2012, 222, referring to Giulianotti 1994. 115 On football and identity, see Tomlinson and Young 2006;Goig 2007;Podoler 2007;Gibbons 2014. 116 There are exceptions to this general trend as the first non-European association to join was the South African Football Association (1910).…”

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Football's contribution to international order: the ludic and festive reproduction of international society by world societal actors

Bucher

Eckl

2021

Int. Theory

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In the English School, the relationship between international and world society has recently received increasing attention – conceptually and empirically. Adding to this developing literature, we study how world societal actors not only serve as normative counterpoints to international society or function as norm-entrepreneurs, but decisively contribute to its reproduction. Going beyond the common preoccupation with actor types, we focus on practices that are performed on the international stage. We examine the role which world sport events, especially FIFA's World Cup and the infrastructure of football, play for international society. Building on Wight, we conceptualize world sport events as a (world societal actor driven) derivative primary institution of international society, which is embedded within the particularly hybrid master primary institution of sites and festivals. We find that world sport events allow for the ludic and festive reproduction of key primary institutions (like sovereignty, territoriality, and nationalism), while they highlight how members of international society compete on the basis of shared norms and values. Naturalizing world order as international order, they make international society emotionally experienceable as feasible and desirable at a global level. In performing world sport events, world societal actors uphold rather than challenge international society.

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“…First, it is relevant that sport has been used as a diplomatic tool – for antagonistic and reconciliatory purposes – by both Koreas since the peninsula divided in 1948. Even before the divide, sport was considered a symbol of national solidarity and strength, especially throughout the Japanese occupation (Horne and Manzenreiter, 2002; Podoler, 2008). It is especially pertinent that sport’s role in the Korean peninsula has changed throughout the years.…”

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‘Nice Korea, Naughty Korea’: Media framings of North Korea and the inter-Korean relationship in the London 2012 Olympic Games

Yoon

Wilson

2016

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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This study examines mainstream news media framings of North Korea and the inter-Korean relationship in the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games, focusing on the role that the media played in privileging particular understandings of nationalism, conflict and reconciliation. Print news articles from South Korea and English-speaking western nations were collected and analyzed. The results illustrate notable differences between South Korean and western media coverage of North Korea's involvement and the inter-Korean relationship. Western representations of North Korea featured discussions of controversies pertaining to the North Korean government, and often deemphasized or dismissed athletes' efforts. South Korean coverage included few reflections on socio-political problems related to North Korea, but highlighted athletic accomplishments. Emphasis on division was also found more often in western coverage of the inter-Korean relationship as compared to South Korean coverage.

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Nation, State and Football: The Korean Case

Cited by 11 publications

References 6 publications

Twitter-Based BIRGing: Big Data Analysis of English National Team Fans During the 2018 FIFA World Cup

Twitter-Based BIRGing: Big Data Analysis of English National Team Fans During the 2018 FIFA World Cup

Football's contribution to international order: the ludic and festive reproduction of international society by world societal actors

‘Nice Korea, Naughty Korea’: Media framings of North Korea and the inter-Korean relationship in the London 2012 Olympic Games

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