ISBN:
9781137487186
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (310 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
New Directions in Latino American Cultures
Series Statement:
New Directions in Latino American Cultures Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Sports and Nationalism in Latin / o America
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Ethnology-Latin America
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
"This book presents a broad selection of research on connections between sports and nationalism in Latin American and the Latino USA. It brings a critical cultural studies approach to studies of both historical and contemporary contexts from throughout the Americas, with a focus on the region's emblematic sport of soccer, as well as baseball, boxing, paraolympic sports, surfing, tennis and basketball, among others"--
Abstract:
Sports and nationalism are two forms of imagining and actively constructing the connections that justify and explain belonging to a community. However, as practices involving diverse actors in historically and culturally specific contexts, they are also often occasions for the questioning of hegemonic national narratives and even for the emergence of alternative imaginings of supra or sub-national belonging. This collection interrogates sports in Latin America precisely as a key terrain in which nation is defined and populations are interpellated through emotionally charged practices of inclusion and exclusion. The book explores the complexities of these practices across a range of sports (soccer, baseball, cycling, basketball, tennis, boxing, and more) and national spaces (Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, USA, among others). Finally, it looks at how factors such as gender, (dis)ability, migration, and globalization complicate notions of nation engendered through sports
Abstract:
This collection interrogates sports in Latin America as a key terrain in which nation is defined and populations are interpellated through emotionally charged practices (state policy, media representations, and sports play itself by professionals, national teams and amateurs) of inclusion and exclusion. Pablo Alabarces,University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Maria Tarcisa Silva Bega, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil Vander Casaqui, Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, Brazil Yago Colás, University of Michigan, USA Dexter Hough Snee, University of California, Berkeley, USA Hortensia Moreno, National Autonomous University of Mexico Joshua Nadel, North Carolina Central University, USA Juan Carlos Rodríguez, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Chloe Rutter-Jensen, University of the Andes, Colombia Renata Maria Toledo, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil Sergio Villena Fiengo, University of Costa Rica
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Sports and the Construction of Nationalism; Chapter 1 Football and Patria, Ten Years Later:; Chapter 2 The Antinational Game?; Chapter 3 (F)Utopias:; Chapter 4 Race, Sports, and Regionalism in the Construction of Colombian Nationalism; Part II Sports as Intranational Mediation; Chapter 5 The Players of the Brazilian Football Team as a Model of Culture:; Chapter 6 Nationalism and Public Policies of Sports in Brazil; Chapter 7 The Nation in the Strike Zone and Reality at Bat:
Description / Table of Contents:
Part III Sports and AlterityChapter 8 "Can I please have a ramp with that Gold Medal?":; Chapter 9 Women Boxers and Nationalism in Mexico; Chapter 10 "You Have the Right to Surf!":; Part IV Sports as Transnational Mediation; Chapter 11 Guillermo Vilas, "Tennis's Sexiest Man":; Chapter 12 The Meanings of Manu:; Chapter 13 Latino Soccer, Nationalism, and Border Zones in the United States; Notes on Contributors; Index
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