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posted on 2014-08-14, 09:48 authored by Mahfoud AmaraThis paper addresses two connected issues: first, the state’s engagement with
football in different phases of Algeria’s transitions since 1980s (e.g. the end of state’s socialist
ideology, multipartism and an era of political violence); second, football chanting among
young football fans in Algiers – submerged in brutal conflict during the 1990s’ – who have
found in the internet in general, and social networks (YouTube, Facebook and Dailymotion)
in particular, a new medium: (a) to reframe their identity, in opposition to both the
institutionalized discourse on youth and political legitimacy, and the imposed realities of geopolitics
that constrain their mobility; (b) to express their malaise with the socio-economic
conditions; and (c) to construct their future in an ‘imagined elsewhere’.
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- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
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Mediterranean PoliticsVolume
17Issue
1Pages
41 - 58Citation
AMARA, M., 2012. Football sub-culture and youth politics in Algeria. Mediterranean Politics, 17(1), pp.41-58.Publisher
© Taylor & FrancisVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2012Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Mediterranean Politics on 21/02/2012, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2012.658194ISSN
1362-9395eISSN
1743-9418Publisher version
Language
- en