Football and Fascism: The Politics of Popular Culture in Portugal

Rahul Kumar

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2023

Football and Fascism

The Politics of Popular Culture in Portugal

Rahul Kumar

Volume 2 in the series RERIS Studies in International Sport Relations

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110721508

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Football and Fascism. The Politics of Popular Culture in Portugal tells the hidden history of football and discusses its political, social and cultural foundations, during the longest running authoritarian regime in Europe. Theoretically grounded on Bourdieu’s field theory, and using a multi-scalar methodology, this award-winning research explores the political tensions between the nationalization of sports envisaged by the Portuguese “New State” and the integration of national football in a globalized urban popular culture. Mobilizing unexplored archival sources, and a wide array of primary materials, this groundbreaking work offers new insight on the administrative structures of the corporativist state, the making of an authoritarian cultural program, and the relation between state institutions and civil society. Besides broadening the scope of existing transnational histories of football, this study also puts into question the conventional geographies and political chronologies adopted in sports history.

For his oustanding research, Rahul Kumar won the 2015 “Mário Soares Award - EDP Foundation” for best work in Portuguese history by researchers under 35 and received an honourable mention, also in 2015, in the “CES Award for Young Portuguese speaking Social Scientists”, attributed by the Centre for Social Studies of Coimbra University.

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Rahul Kumar, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction: football, fascism and popular culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I The sociogenesis of the Portuguese sports field Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
Part II The “New State” and sports: ideologies and institutions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Part III The lost purity of sport: the professionalisation of football players during fascism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
Final Remarks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Index of Places Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
Index of Themes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Original publisher: Edições Paquiderme, Lisbon 2017
Audience: Historians with a focus on Sport and Cultural History; academics in the fields of Cultural Studies and Sociology of Sports.
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 265
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 15
- Tables: 1
Keywords: Fascism; Portugal; popular culture; football; civil society

eBook

Published: June 6, 2023
ISBN: 9783110721508

Hardcover

Published: June 6, 2023
ISBN: 9783110721225