'If I ever play football, dad, can I play for england or india?': British Asians, sport and diasporic national identities

Sociology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 11-28

  Burdsey, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Race'; British Asians; Diaspora; Football; Hybridity; Identity; Sport

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645750297     PISSN: 00380385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0038038506058435     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Alexander, C. (2000) The Asian Gang: Ethnicity, Identity, Masculinity. Oxford: Berg.
2. Alexander, C. (2004) 'Imagining the Asian Gang: Ethnicity, Masculinity and Youth after 'the Riots'', Critical Social Policy 24 (4). 526 - 549.
3. Anderson, B. (1991) Imagined Communities. Verso: London.
4. Anthias, F. (1998) 'Evaluating "Diaspora": Beyond Ethnicity?', Sociology 32 (3). 557 - 580.
5. Anthias, F. (2001) 'New Hybridities, Old Concepts: The Limits of "Culture"', Ethnic and Racial Studies 24 (4). 619 - 641.
6. Anthias, F. and C. Lloyd (2002) 'Introduction: Fighting Racisms, Defining the Territory', in F. Anthias and C. Lloyd (eds) Rethinking Anti-racisms: From Theory to Practice, pp. 1 - 21. London: Routledge.
7. Anvari, H. (2001) 'Games beneath the Veil Uncovered', Guardian 26 October.
8. Anwar, M. (1998) Between Cultures: Continuity and Change in the Lives of Young Asians. London: Routledge.
9. Back, L. (1996) New Ethnicities and Urban Culture: Racisms and Multiculture in Young Lives. London: UCL Press.
10. Back, L., Crabbe, T. and J. Solomos (2001) The Changing Face of Football: Racism, Identity and Multiculture in the English Game. Oxford: Berg.
11. Balibar, E. (1991) 'Racism and Nationalism', in E. Balibar and I. Wallerstein Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities, pp. 37 - 67. London: Verso.
12. Bhatia, S. (2003) 'Harpal is ready to Make Huge Step', Eastern Eye 17 January.
13. Bourdieu, P. (1990) The Logic of Practice. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
14. Brah, A. (1996) Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities. London: Routledge.
15. Bulmer, M. and J. Solomos (eds) (2004) Researching Race and Racism. London: Routledge.
16. Burdsey, D. (2005) '"Role with the Punches": "Race", Representation and the Construction of Amir Khan as a Role Model for Multiethnic Britain', Paper presented at Lost in Transl-Asian? British Asians, Sport, Leisure and Popular Culturestudy workshop, University of Brighton, 19 November.
17. Campbell, D. (2001) 'Hussain Lashes British Asians as Unpatriotic', Observer 27 May.
18. Carrington, B. (1998a) '"Football's Coming Home" but Whose Home? And Do We Want It?: Nation, Football and the Politics of Exclusion', in A. Brown (ed.) Fanatics! Power, Identity and Fandom in Football, pp. 101 - 123. London: Routledge.
19. Carrington, B. (1998b) 'Sport, Masculinity and Black Cultural Resistance', Journal of Sport and Social Issues 22 (3). 275 - 298.
20. Carrington, B. and I. McDonald (2001a) 'Introduction: "Race", Sport and British Society', in B. Carrington and I. McDonald (eds) 'Race', Sport and British Society, pp. 1 - 26. London: Routledge.
21. Carrington, B. and I. McDonald (2001b) 'Whose Game Is It Anyway? Racism in Local League Cricket', in B. Carrington and I. McDonald (eds) 'Race', Sport and British Society, pp. 49 - 69. London: Routledge.
22. Carvel, J. (2000) 'The Rise of the Little Englanders', Guardian 28 November.
23. Clifford, J. (1994) 'Diasporas', Cultural Anthropology 9 (3). 302 - 338.
24. Cohen, P. (1996) 'Homing Devices', in V. Amit-Talai and C. Knowles (eds) Resituating Identities: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity and Culture, pp. 68 - 82. Hadleigh: Broadview.
25. Cohen, R. (1999) Global Diasporas: An Introduction. London: UCL Press.
26. Dimeo, P. (2002) 'The Local, National and Global in Indian Football: Issues of Power and Identity', Football Studies 5 (2). 74 - 87.
27. Din, I. and C. Cullingford (2004) 'Boyzone and Bhangra: The Place of Popular and Minority Cultures', Race, Ethnicity and Education 7 (3). 307 - 320.
28. Donovan, M. (2003) 'Twenty Questions with Albion Loan Star Zesh Rehman', Brighton and Hove Sports Argus 18 October.
29. Eade, J. (1994) 'Identity, Nation and Religion: Educated Young Bangladeshi Muslims in London's East End', International Sociology 9 (3). 377 - 394.
30. Fanon, F. (1967) Towards the African Revolution. New York: Monthly Review Press.
31. Fawcett, B. and J. Hearn (2004) 'Researching Others: Epistemology, Experience, Standpoints and Participation', International Journal of Social Research Methodology 7 (3). 201 - 218.
32. Gilroy, P. (1993) Small Acts: Thoughts on the Politics of Black Cultures. London: Serpent's Tail.
33. Goodey, J. (2001) 'The Criminalization of British Asian Youth: Research from Bradford and Sheffield', Journal of Youth Studies 4 (4). 429 - 450.
34. Hall, S. (1990) 'Cultural Identity and Diaspora', in J. Rutherford (ed.) Identity: Community, Culture, Difference, pp. 222 - 237. London: Lawrence and Wishart.
35. Hall, S. (1992) 'The Question of Cultural Identity', in S. Hall, D. Held and T. McGrew (eds) Modernity and its Futures, pp. 273 - 325. Cambridge: Polity Press.
36. Hammersley, M. and P. Atkinson (1995) Ethnography: Principles in Practice. London: Routledge.
37. Hawkey, I. (2002) 'Hitting back at Racism on the Home Pitch', Sunday Times 20 October.
38. Henderson, R. (1995) 'Is it in the Blood?', Wisden Cricket Monthly July.
39. Kellas, J. (1991) The Politics of Nationalism and Ethnicity. London: Macmillan.
40. Laville, S. (2004) 'White Shirt, No Shame for British Asians', Guardian 21 June.
41. Mirza, H, (2003) '"All the Women Are White, All the Blacks are Men - But Some of Us Are Brave": Mapping the Consequences of Invisibility for Black and Minority Ethnic Women in Britain', in D. Mason (ed.) Explaining Ethnic Differences: Changing Patterns of Disadvantage in Britain, pp. 121 - 138. Bristol: Policy Press.
42. Office for National Statistics (2004) URL (consulted Jan. 2004): http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=459
43. Parekh, B. (2000) 'National Identity in a Multicultural Society', in M. Anwar, P. Roach and R. Sondhi (eds) From Legislation to Integration? Race Relations in Britain, pp. 196 - 211. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
44. Pearson, G. (1976) '"Paki-bashing" in a North East Lancashire Cotton Town: A Case Study and its History', in G. Mungham and G. Pearson (eds) Workingclass Youth Culture, pp. 48 - 81. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
45. Ramji, H. (2003) 'Engendering Diasporic Identities', in N. Puwar and P. Raghuram (eds) South Asian Women in the Diaspora, pp. 227 - 241. Oxford: Berg.
46. Robertson, R. (1995) 'Glocalization: Time-space and Homogeneity- heterogeneity', in M. Featherstone, S. Lash and R. Robertson (eds) Global Modernities, pp. 25 - 44. London: Sage.
47. Vasagar, J., Ward, D., Etim, A. and M. Keating (2001) '"No go for Whites" in Race Hotspot', Guardian 20 April.
48. Ware, V. and L. Back (2002) Out of Whiteness: Color, Politics and Culture. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
49. Webster, C. (1997) 'The Construction of British "Asian" Criminality', International Journal of the Sociology of Law 25 (1). 65 - 86.
50. Werbner, P. (1996) '"Our Blood Is Green": Cricket, Identity and Social Empowerment among British Pakistanis,' in J. MacClancy (ed.) Sport, Identity and Ethnicity, pp. 87 - 111. Oxford: Berg.
51. White, M. (2001) 'Tory Rapped for Saying Enoch Powell Was Right', Guardian 28 March.