The Beautiful Game

Arnold, Richard; Foxall, Andrew

doi:10.1080/10758216.2018.1433936

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“…Today, most of the concern about xenophobic nationalism and soccer is concentrated on Eastern Europe, where comparatively homogenous nations have existed longer than in the West. Indeed, prior to the Russian World Cup in 2018, numerous journalists and scholars expressed worries about the connections between racism and football culture (Arnold and Foxall 2018;Arnold and Veth 2018;Glathe 2016;Gorshunov and Gorshunova 2015). Similarly, before the 2012 Euro championship finals in Poland and Ukraine, there were concerns about racist fans, which some argued was in fact a reflection of the insecurities of those reporting such concerns (Wawrzyczek, 2017).…”

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Nationalism and Sport: A Review of the Field

Arnold

2020

Nationalities Papers

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The connection between nationalism and sport seems at once both obvious and manifest, with the most lavish praise of the nation often arising at sporting events. While a sizeable body of academic literature exists on the connection between the two concepts, it remains overlapping and unstructured. This state of the field review essay accounts for the major works in this field and categorizes it according to the function it fulfills in the subfield. Specifically, it focuses on sport as a mechanism for the diffusion and creation of nationalism, sport under conditions of globalization at Sporting Mega Events (SMEs), and the connection between sport and the distinction between civic and ethnic definitions of nationality.

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