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1 online resource |
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New directions in Latino American cultures |
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New directions in Latino American cultures.
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| Contents |
Sports and Nationalism in Latin/o America: An Introduction; Hctor Fernandez L'Hoeste, Robert McKee Irwin, and Juan Poblete -- PART I: SPORTS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONALISM -- 1. Football and Patria, Ten Years Later: Sports Nationalism as a Commodity; Pablo Alabarces -- 2. The Anti-National Game? An Exploration of Women's Soccer in Latin America; Joshua Nadel -- 3. (F)Utopias: The Nationalist Uses of Soccer in Costa Rica Sergio; Villena Fiengo -- 4. Race, Sports, and Regionalism in the Construction of Colombian Nationalism; Ȟctor Ferǹndez L'Hoeste -- PART II: SPORTS AS INTRA-NATIONAL MEDIATION -- 5. The Player of the Brazilian Football Team as a Model of Culture: Life Stories Mediated by Television News; Vander Casaqui -- 6. Nationalism and Sport Policies in Brazil; Renata Toledo and Maria Tarcisa Silva Bega -- 7. The Nation in the Strike Zone and Reality at Bat: Bodies, Voices and Spaces of Cuban Baseball in Sport Documentaries; Juan Carlos Rodr̕guez -- PART III: SPORTS AND ALTERITY -- 8. "Can I Please Have a Ramp with that Gold Medal?": Colombian Paralympics and the Prosthetic Lim(b)inality of Nation; Chloe Rutter-Jensen -- 9. Women Boxers and Nationalism in Mexico; Hortensia Moreno: -- 10. "You Have the Right to Surf!": Riding Waves of Modernity, Decolonization, and National Identity in Peru; Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee -- PART IV: SPORTS AS TRANSNATIONAL MEDIATION -- 11. Guillermo Vilas, "Tennis's Sexiest Man": The Argentine Dictatorship in the US Tennis Press 1974-1982; Robert McKee Irwin -- 12. The Meanings of Manu: Style, Race, and Globalization in the Culture of Basketball; Yago Col̀s -- 13. Latino Soccer, Nationalism, and Border Zones in the US; Juan Poblete |
| Summary |
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 |
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"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"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Sports -- Latin America -- History
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Nationalism and sports -- Latin America -- History
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Sports -- Social aspects -- Latin America
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Cultural studies -- Latin America.
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Sociology: sport & leisure -- Latin America.
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Nationalism -- Latin America.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Hispanic American Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- General.
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Nationalism and sports
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Sports
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Sports -- Social aspects
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Nationalismus
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Sport
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Cultural studies -- South & Central America, Latin America.
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Sociology: sport & leisure -- South & Central America, Latin America.
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Nationalism -- South & Central America, Latin America.
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Society.
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Latin America
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Lateinamerika
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Fernández l'Hoeste, Héctor D., 1962- editor
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Irwin, Robert McKee, 1962- editor.
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Poblete, Juan, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781137518002 |
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1137518006 |
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9781137487186 |
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1137487186 |
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