Sports and nationalism in Latin/o America. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste, Robert McKee Irwin and Juan Poblete.
• Other Names: Fernández l'Hoeste, Héctor D, 1962-; Irwin, Robert McKee, 1962-; Poblete, Juan
• Contents: Sports and Nationalism in Latin/o America: An Introduction; Héctor Fernández 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; Héctor Fernández 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 Rodríguez; 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 Colás; 13. Latino Soccer, Nationalism, and Border Zones in the US; Juan Poblete; ;
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (324 pages), (4 illustrations)
• Subjects: 796.098; General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; SPORTS & RECREATION / General; Ethnic Studies/Hispanic American Studies; Cultural studies; Society & culture: general; Sociology: sport & leisure; Sports -- Latin America -- History; Nationalism and sports -- Latin America -- History; Sports -- Social aspects -- Latin America
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137518019; 1137518014
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