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Title:
FOOTBALL IN TOGO AND THE GAZE

Authors:
Shuan Lin

Volume:3 Issue: 12

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Shuan Lin
PhD Candidate, Department of English, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan

MLA 8
Lin, Shuan. "FOOTBALL IN TOGO AND THE GAZE." Int. J. Arts&Humanities, vol. 3, no. 12, Dec. 2019, pp. 425-437, journal-ijah.org/more2019.php?id=32. Accessed Dec. 2019.
APA
Lin, S. (2019, December). FOOTBALL IN TOGO AND THE GAZE. Int. J. Arts&Humanities, 3(12), 425-437. Retrieved from journal-ijah.org/more2019.php?id=32
Chicago
Lin, Shuan. "FOOTBALL IN TOGO AND THE GAZE." Int. J. Arts&Humanities 3, no. 12 (December 2019), 425-437. Accessed December, 2019. journal-ijah.org/more2019.php?id=32.

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Keywords:
African football, field, pure gaze, art of the game, Pierre Bourdieu

Abstract:
Several studies have suggested that the football field in Africa is not an autonomous one; rather, it contributes to the production of nationhood and centralization of political powers. The present study is an interrogation of the gaze manifested upon the football field in Francophone West Africa, notably Togo, in the 80s. I propose that there are three distinctive modes of gaze projected onto the football field. First, the nationalistic gaze invested in the illusio of the field. Gaze for the local professional games is the second mode, and the last is the appreciation for the 'art of the game' in the French League; the pure gaze. Agents with particular dispositions pertaining a specific class fraction predispose one or more types of perceptions mentioned above for this sport. Pierre Bourdieu's approach in analyzing the sport field is applied in the current paper in order to delve into the issue.

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