Kourat el Kadem: soccer culture and fandom in postcolonial Francophone Algerian texts.
This article examines soccer culture and fandom in North African Francophone literature, focusing on sociological studies and the ideological underpinnings that exist between soccer culture, national identity and Islamism in post-riot 1988 Algeria. In postcolonial Algeria, soccer – commonly referred...
| Published in: | Journal of North African Studies Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 143 - 160 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jan 2022
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