Representing Identities: Re-configuring Diaspora in the Field of Sport

This project uses football, a sport with mass appeal, as the site for an exploration of transformations of identity at a time of increased proliferation of strategies for inclusion and cohesion. Organisations like Kick it Out and Football Unites offer spaces in which government policies and grass roots participation merge, where fans and policies meet and my aim is to examine how identity positions are configured and whether the concept of diaspora has any purchase within this space or whether new selves are emerging in the representational systems adopted by such organisations which combat racism.