Open AccessIdentity, Fans and Football Clubs: A Case of United Kurseong Football Club
Author(s) -
Binu Sundas
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
senhri journal of multidisciplinary studies (online)/senhri journal of multidisciplinary studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2582-6840
pISSN - 2456-3757
DOI - 10.36110/sjms.2020.05.01.005
Subject(s) - football , identity (music) , football club , club , population , politics , advertising , media studies , sociology , gender studies , political science , law , art , aesthetics , business , medicine , demography , anatomy
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.