| ID | 160233 |
| Title Proper | From Hasbara to the Palestine-Israel Sport Conflict |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Xenakis, Demetrios |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This analysis highlights the role of sport—particularly football—in nation-building. Using netnographic techniques, it focuses on the Palestinian struggle for self-determination and nationhood through the efforts of the Palestinian Football Association [PFA] to challenge Israeli hegemony and function independently of Israeli surveillance in a sovereign Palestinian nation-state. It explains how the PFA has attempted to harness its status, manifested in its Fédération Internationale de Football Association [FIFA] membership, to threaten Israel’s own FIFA membership and its international image. The value of this analysis stems from the way it embeds the empirical narrative within a broader international relations analytical/theoretical framework that problematises the central concept of “soft power” that has predominated the current “sports and international relations” literature. |
| `In' analytical Note | Diplomacy and Statecraft Vol. 29, No.2; Jun 2018: p.328-351 |
| Journal Source | Diplomacy and Statecraft Vol: 29 No 2 |
| Key Words | Hasbara ; Palestine-Israel Sport Conflict |