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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: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.652kg ISBN: 9780292726307ISBN 10: 0292726309 Pages: 327 Publication Date: 01 July 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Replaced By: 9780292743939 Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of Contents* Acknowledgments * 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 * IndexReviewsOverall, 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 Assistant 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 |