Street Football, Gender and Muslim Youth in the Netherlands: Girls Who Kick Back

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Kathrine van den Bogert (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) Dawn Llewellyn (University of Chester UK)

Street Football, Gender and Muslim Youth in the Netherlands

Girls Who Kick Back

Kathrine van den Bogert (Utrecht University, the Netherlands), Dawn Llewellyn (University of Chester UK), Sonya Sharma (Kingston University London UK) , Sîan Hawthorne (School of Oriental and African Studies University of London UK)

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Bloomsbury Academic
21 March 2024

Islam

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality

Based on original ethnographic research in a multicultural neighbourhood in The Hague, this open access book gives detailed insights into the challenges, negotiations and resistances girls with Moroccan-Dutch and Muslim backgrounds face in the world of street football.

Kathrine van den Bogert traces the experiences of teenage girls who play football in public playgrounds, as well as in a girls’ football competition the girls have set up themselves: Football Girls United. She addresses how race, ethnicity, religion, gender and citizenship are entangled in the access to and construction of the public street football spaces, such as football courts, urban playgrounds and public squares.

While Muslim girls in football are often stigmatized and excluded based on their religious and ethnic backgrounds, this book emphasizes their street football practices as critical and creative ways of belonging, both in football and in wider Dutch society. By focussing on a domain largely absent in religion and gender research, namely sport, this book brings forth new perspectives on religious and ethnic diversity in Europe. The football players show that ‘Muslim’ is not always a relevant identity in their lives, and hence urge us to rethink the categories of analysis that we use, and often take for granted, as feminist and intersectional scholars of gender, religion and Islam.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

By: Kathrine van den Bogert (Utrecht University the Netherlands)
Edited by: Dawn Llewellyn (University of Chester UK), Sonya Sharma (Kingston University London UK), Sîan Hawthorne (School of Oriental and African Studies University of London UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350205086
ISBN 10: 1350205087
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 21 March 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kathrine van den Bogert is Assistant Professor of Sport and Society at Utrecht University School of Governance, the Netherlands.

Reviews for Street Football, Gender and Muslim Youth in the Netherlands: Girls Who Kick Back

Kathrine van den Bogert brilliantly explores the relationship between space, embodied practices and belonging in this cutting-edge study of Moroccan-Dutch Muslim girls playing street football. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this book empathetically shows how these girls navigate spaces for public sports that are gendered, racialized and based on secular norms, and how they ‘kick back’ to racism and sexism through their playful, performative acts. * Margaretha A. van Es, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Utrecht University, the Netherlands *