Citizens and Sportsmen: Futbol and Politics in Twentieth-Century Chile - Couverture souple

Elsey, Brenda

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0292743939 ISBN 13 : 9780292743939

Editeur : University of Texas Press, 2011

Synopsis

Book by Elsey Brenda

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Futbol is the most popular sport in the world. Millions of people schedule their lives and build identities around it. The World Cup tournament, played every four years, draws an audience of more than a billion people and provides a global platform for displays of athletic prowess, nationalist rhetoric, and commercial advertising. Futbol is ubiquitous in Latin America, yet few academic histories of the sport exist, and even fewer focus on its relevance to politics in the region. To fill that gap, this book uses amateur futbol clubs in Chile to understand the history of civic associations, popular culture, and politics. In Citizens and Sportsmen, Brenda Elsey argues that futbol clubs integrated working-class men into urban politics, connected them to parties, and served as venues of political critique. In this way, they contributed to the democratization of the public sphere. Elsey shows how club members debated ideas about class, ethnic, and gender identities, and also how their belief in the uniquely democratic nature of Chile energized state institutions even as it led members to criticize those very institutions. Furthermore, she reveals how futbol clubs created rituals, narratives, and symbols that legitimated workers' claims to political subjectivity. Her case study demonstrates that the relationship between formal and informal politics is essential to fostering civic engagement and supporting democratic practices.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Texas Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0292743939
• ISBN 13: 9780292743939
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 327