"Given its popularity, international football might be viewed as a prism through which the imagined community of the nation becomes closer to a manifest reality with matches providing examples of that community collectively rejoicing or crying. The sport potentially sheds insigh…
Football, place and identity -- Nations, nationality and football's changing rules -- Switching allegiance -- African connections -- The boys in green -- Ireland's border-crossers -- Conclusion: political football. "Given its popularity, international football might be viewed a…
"Given its popularity, international football might be viewed as a prism through which the imagined community of the nation becomes closer to a manifest reality with matches providing examples of that community collectively rejoicing or crying. The sport potentially sheds insigh…
"Given its popularity, international football might be viewed as a prism through which the imagined community of the nation becomes closer to a manifest reality with matches providing examples of that community collectively rejoicing or crying. The sport potentially sheds insigh…
Politics and political relationships underpin the world we live in. From the division of the earth' s surface into separate states to the placement of ' keep out' signs, territorial strategies to control geographic space can be used to assert, maintain or resist power and as a f…