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OverviewFutbol, or soccer as it is called in the United States, 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Brenda ElseyPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780292743939ISBN 10: 0292743939 Pages: 327 Publication Date: 01 July 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter One. Rayando la Cancha-Marking the Field: Chilean Football, 1893-1919 Chapter Two. The Massive, Modern, and Marginalized in Football of the 1920s Chapter Three. The White Elephant : The National Stadium, Populism, and the Popular Front, 1933-1942 Chapter Four. The Latin Lions and the Dogs of Constantinople : Immigrant Clubs, Ethnicity, and Racial Hierarchies in Football, 1920-1953 Chapter Five. Because We Have Nothing . . . : The Radicalization of Amateurs and the World Cup of 1962 Chapter Six. The New Left, Popular Unity, and Football, 1963-1973 Epilogue Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsCitizens and Sportsmen represents the first major study of football in Chile to be published in English, but offers considerably more than sport history, linking this, as it does, to political events - broadly understood - and parties of the twentieth century. --Bulletin of Latin American Research Overall, Elsey has given us a well-executed, sorely needed national case study relevant to Latin America's most popular sport. It is jargon free and appropriate for undergraduates as well as scholars interested in political history, sports studies, or popular culture. Its strengths guarantee that it will be a measuring stick for the studies of Latin American soccer sure to emerge in coming years. -- Jeff Richey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hispanic American Historical Review [This book] provides an excellent example of the ways that sports can illuminate wider social, cultural, and political understanding of a society as well as the ways that sports and sporting organizations relate to formal political structures...Elsey has produced an outstanding study of sporting, social, and political history that should be read by any scholar interested in understanding Chile in the 20th century as well as historians working on the role of sport in social and political history in other societies. -- John Nauright, George Mason University Journal of Social History Overall, Elsey has given us a well-executed, sorely needed national case study relevant to Latin America's most popular sport. It is jargon free and appropriate for undergraduates as well as scholars interested in political history, sports studies, or popular culture. Its strengths guarantee that it will be a measuring stick for the studies of Latin American soccer sure to emerge in coming years.--Jeff Richey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hispanic American Historical Review (01/01/2012) ""Citizens and Sportsmen represents the first major study of football in Chile to be published in English, but offers considerably more than sport history, linking this, as it does, to political events - broadly understood - and parties of the twentieth century.""--Bulletin of Latin American Research Author InformationBrenda Elsey is Associate Professor of History at Hofstra University. Her research interests focus on politics and popular culture in Latin American history. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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