LEADER 04054nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910806992103321 005 20230725050850.0 010 $a0-292-73477-8 024 7 $a10.7560/726307 035 $a(CKB)2550000000041571 035 $a(OCoLC)741751636 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10485555 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000521501 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11306806 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000521501 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10523045 035 $a(PQKB)11428446 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443548 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse20034 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443548 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10485555 035 $a(OCoLC)932313936 035 $a(DE-B1597)588389 035 $a(OCoLC)1280944439 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292734777 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000041571 100 $a20110128d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCitizens and sportsmen$b[electronic resource] $efu?tbol and politics in twentieth-century Chile /$fBrenda Elsey 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (328 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-72630-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [291]-306) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Rayando la Cancha?Marking the Field: Chilean Football, 1893?1919 -- $t2. The Massive, Modern, and Marginalized in Football of the 1920s -- $t3. ?The White Elephant?: The National Stadium, Populism, and the Popular Front, 1933?1942 -- $t4. The ?Latin Lions? and the ?Dogs of Constantinople?: Immigrant Clubs, Ethnicity, and Racial Hierarchies in Football, 1920?1953 -- $t5. ?Because We Have Nothing . . .?: The Radicalization of Amateurs and the World Cup of 1962 -- $t6. The New Left, Popular Unity, and Football, 1963?1973 -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aFútbol, 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. Fútbol 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 fútbol clubs in Chile to understand the history of civic associations, popular culture, and politics. In Citizens and Sportsmen, Brenda Elsey argues that fútbol 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 fútbol 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. 606 $aSoccer$zChile 606 $aSoccer$xPolitical aspects$zChile 606 $aNationalism and sports$zChile 615 0$aSoccer 615 0$aSoccer$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aNationalism and sports 676 $a796.3340983 700 $aElsey$b Brenda$0847668 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910806992103321 996 $aCitizens and sportsmen$93926007 997 $aUNINA