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6 - The Race Game: Media Sport, Race and Ethnicity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2013

Raymond Boyle
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow
Richard Haynes
Affiliation:
University of Stirling
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Summary

I wonder if there will soon be a separate entrance for Jewish supporters at Manchester City, or if they will be allowed in at all? The club's new owners [Abu Dhabi Royal Family] wish the team to play exhibition matches and hold training sessions in Abu Dhabi, but it is expected that not all the players will be invited to attend. Tal Ben Haim is an Israeli national and therefore not allowed to enter the horrible little country, so it is almost certain he will be left behind.

(Rod Liddle, ‘Awkward questions that haunt new owners’, Sunday Times, 14 September 2008)

Introduction

As a central component in popular culture, sport and its mediated versions operate within a terrain heavily laden with symbolism and metaphor. As we have argued earlier in the book, the issue of representation remains central to any study of media sport. Mediated sport is saturated with ideas, values, images and discourses which at times reflect, construct, naturalize, legitimize, challenge and even reconstitute attitudes which permeate wider society. It should come as no surprise that a cultural form which has narrative and mythology at its core can also become a vehicle for what Cohen (1988) calls ‘rituals of misrecognition’. What these next three chapters examine is the extent to which mediated versions of sport play a role in the larger process of identity formations of race, ethnicity, gender and national identity.

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Power Play
Sport, the Media and Popular Culture
, pp. 107 - 121
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Print publication year: 2009

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