Identity, Fans and Football Clubs: A Case of United Kurseong Football Club-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Identity, Fans and Football Clubs: A Case of United Kurseong Football Club

Published:2020-07-20 Issue:1 Volume:5 Page:45-50
ISSN:2456-3757
Container-title:Senhri Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies
language:en
Short-container-title:SJMS

Author:

Sundas Binu¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Sociology, Miranda House, University of Delhi, India

Abstract

Football has a long history and it is the most popular sport on the planet. However, football has not just remained a sporting activity. It has been long used a political instrument to repress and suppress and also as a tool of resistance. The arena of football is also used as an avenue to assert one’s identity. This paper looks at how a local football team was seen as a medium to assert one’s identity by Gorkha population residing in the plains of North Bengal and Bhutan. This paper is based on the reflexive account of a player’s experience. It is based on two case studies to draw correlation between identity and football.

Publisher

Pachhunga University College

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