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AuthorBouandel Y.
AuthorAmara M.
Available date2020-04-01T06:59:43Z
Publication Date2019
Publication NameSoccer and Society
ResourceScopus
ISSN14660970
URIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2019.1680505
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/13691
AbstractA Nation’s memory is selective and sheds light only on a selection of narratives of memory and process of memorizing that serves a nation’s interests. At the core of the Algerian state formation, the question of memory and historical legitimacy occupied a distinctive position. The Algerian state built its memory on a series of ‘coherent’ narratives that fall within three distinctive themes: (1) the struggle of Algerian people mobilized around the nationalist party and liberation; (2) a process that mobilizes Algerian people around socialist, anti-imperialist ideologies and (3) more recently, the narrative focused on the notion of national reconciliation following almost ten years of quasi-civil war. In all these themes, football has been used to invoke and exercise the memory of the state. It has also provided football fans, mainly the youth, with a platform to counter and subvert the official memory. Through an analysis of six historical matches/moments, this essay intends to highlight the significance of these particular dates/events in the collective memory and popular culture of the country.
Languageen
PublisherRoutledge
SubjectMuslim
Labor market
Labour market
TitleMoments and memories: football and state narratives in Algeria
TypeArticle
Pagination1084-1094
Issue Number8-Jul
Volume Number20


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