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dc.contributor.authorMOUAWAD, Jamil
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-06T13:55:59Z
dc.date.available2018-12-06T13:55:59Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationMiddle East critique, 2018, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 289-302
dc.identifier.issn1943-6149
dc.identifier.issn1943-6157en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/60018
dc.descriptionPublished online: 11 July 2018en
dc.description.abstractThe growing literature on sports in Lebanon tends to portray football as often implicated in the production of sectarian belonging and national disintegration. This article lays out key features of the complex politicization of sports in Lebanon vis-a-vis the discourse of national unity. It shows how the ruling elite uses sports to reaffirm its position as custodian of the hegemonic discourse of national unity that revolves around religious communities living together. It further demonstrates how normal citizens through everyday practices, and when not under the dominion of the elites, tend to 'imagine from below' a country that is not only powerful and defiant but also able to compete with the very countries that reputedly interfere in its domestic politics.
dc.description.sponsorshipArab Council of the Social Sciences (ACSS) by the Carnegie Corporation of New York
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis (Routledge)en
dc.relation.ispartofMiddle East critique
dc.subjectEveryday encounters
dc.subjectFootball
dc.subjectLebanon
dc.subjectNational unity
dc.subjectSectarianism
dc.titleLebanese football : imagining a defiant and United Lebanon?
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/19436149.2018.1485301
dc.identifier.volume27
dc.identifier.startpage289
dc.identifier.endpage302
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