Abstract
This article discusses the transformations in Israeli football over the last two decades, exploring the top-down and bottom-up motivations present in local football and characterizing foreign practices as more Western, or even more 'civilized', as Norbert Elias would describe it. Yet, the transformations of English and European football over the last three decades suggest that 'Western' is not so much a geographic term as it is a political, moral, and social status, one requiring English, European, and Israeli football to make dedicated political and cultural investments in numerous arenas.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 34-46 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Israel studies review |
Volume | 34 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jan 2019 |
Keywords
- Civilizing process
- Israeli football
- Political geography
- West
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cultural Studies
- History
- Sociology and Political Science