Bigger than ourselves: the Southgate narrative and the search for a sense of common purpose. Issue 1 (27th August 2020)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Bigger than ourselves: the Southgate narrative and the search for a sense of common purpose. Issue 1 (27th August 2020)
- Main Title:
- Bigger than ourselves: the Southgate narrative and the search for a sense of common purpose
- Authors:
- Clavane, Anthony
Long, Jonathan - Abstract:
- Abstract: The paper examines two 'turns' in English national sporting culture, 'Beckhamisation' and 'Southgatism', and their contribution to an 'imagined community' through processes of 'banal nationalism'. It examines the critiques of various academic and media commentators to demonstrate the link between the trappings of sport (in this case football), and people's understanding of 'us' and 'them'. Music/songs, flags, language, multi-cultural representation, team ethos and espoused values, are not just signifiers, but have a pivotal part to play in representing, repressing and resisting particular forms of Englishness. The focus here is on those national sporting occasions that all too often have been associated with virulent forms of nationalism. We conclude that Southgatism holds out more hope for a progressive sporting patriotism than did its Beckhamite predecessor, but that this has yet to be tested in the febrile cauldron (the 'hostile environment' for immigrants and Brexit) currently forging English national identity.
- Is Part Of:
- Sport in society. Volume 24:Issue 1(2021)
- Journal:
- Sport in society
- Issue:
- Volume 24:Issue 1(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 24, Issue 1 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 24
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0024-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 56
- Page End:
- 73
- Publication Date:
- 2020-08-27
- Subjects:
- Banal Nationalism -- Englishness -- football -- progressive patriotism -- imagined community
Sports -- Social aspects -- Periodicals
Sports -- Cross-cultural studies -- Periodicals
Sports -- Periodicals
306.48305 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗
- DOI:
- 10.1080/17430437.2020.1810021 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1743-0437
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- Legaldeposit
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