Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg

RERIS Studies in International Sport Relations

In collaboration with: Georgia Cervin, Sylvain Dufraisse, Brenda Elsey and Nicola Sbetti
Edited by: Philippe Vonnard and Amanda Shuman

ISSN: 2750-0489

e-ISSN 2750-0497

Overview
Volumes

The RERIS Studies in International Sport Relations series publishes books that explore interconnectivity between international-level actors (people, organizations, and/or states), as well as transnational and global histories of sport. An important focus is on international sport organizations and their leaders, a topic that still remains - with the exception, perhaps, of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) - underexplored in much of the existing scholarship. The series also gives special attention to work that helps address continuing diversity issues in both the scholarship and the field more broadly.

RERIS (Réseau d’études des relations internationales sportives) was created in 2015 to provide a platform for the increasing scholarly interest in questions around the place of sport and physical education in international relations in the twentieth century to the present. The network holds annual events and regular webinars.

We strongly encourage work about and submissions from underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, people of color, and the Global South. Research and studies in sport history by young scholars and in other languages has also increased in recent years. Another goal of this series is thus to publish books stemming from PhD theses, including translations of those not originally written in English.

All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by members of the advisory board, scientific committee, or external experts. Interested authors are encouraged to submit a short proposal in English to the publisher (Julia.Brauch@degruyter.com) or to Philippe Vonnard (philippe.vonnard@unil.ch) and Amanda Shuman (amanda.shuman@gmail.com).

Editors

Philippe Vonnard, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland

Amanda Shuman, Universität Freiburg, Germany

Advisory Board

Georgia Cervin, The University of Western Australia

Sylvain Dufraisse, University of Nantes, France

Brenda Elsey, Hofstra University, New York, USA

Nicola Sbetti, University of Bologna, Italy

Scientific Committee

Axel Elias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Daphné Bolz, University of Rouen, France

Y. Andrew Hao, University of Minnesota, Morris, USA

Tarminder Kaur, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

George Kioussis, California State University, Northridge, USA

Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff, Preston Robert Tisch Institute for Global Sport, New York University, USA

Jörg Krieger, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Juliane Lanz, University of Rostock, Germany

Livia Goncalves Magalhaes, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Claire Nicolas, SOAS - London, UK

Grégory Quin, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Juan Antonio Simón Sanjurjo, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain

Topics

Book 2023

The Making of a Global FIFA

Cold War Politics and the Rise of João Havelange to the FIFA Presidency, 1950–1974

Luiz Guilherme Burlamaqui, John Ellis-Guardiola

Volume 1 in this series

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In 1974, the Brazilian sports official João Havelange was elected FIFA’s president in a two-round election, defeating the incumbent Stanley Rous. The story told by Havelange himself describes a private odyssey in which the protagonist crisscrosses two thirds of the world canvassing for votes and challenging the institutional status quo. For many scholars, Havelange’s triumph changed FIFA’s (International Federation of Football Association) identity, gradually turning it into a global and immensely wealthy institution. Conversely, the election can be analyzed as a historical event. It can be thought of as a political window by means of which the international dynamic of a specific moment in the Cold War can be perceived. In this regard, this book seeks to understand which actors were involved in the election, how the networks were shaped, and which political agents were directly engaged in the campaign.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110759907
ISBN:: 9783110759907
ISBN:: 9783110760040
ISBN:: 9783110759686
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Contemporary History since 1945
Subject:: Cold War
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Global History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Sports and Recreation
Subject:: History of Sports
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book 2023

Football and Fascism

The Politics of Popular Culture in Portugal

Rahul Kumar

Volume 2 in this series

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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.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110721508
ISBN:: 9783110721508
ISBN:: 9783110721225
ISBN:: 9783110721591
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Popular Culture
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: Southern Europe
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Political Ideologies and Ideas
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book Ahead of Publication 2024

Hungary as a Sport Superpower

Football from Horthy to Kádár (1924–1960)

Lorenzo Venuti

Volume 3 in this series

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What role has football (and sport in general) played in Hungarian foreign policy? Was there a continuity between the inter-war period and communism? Are foreign politics and sporting diplomacy synonyms? This book tries to provide answers to these questions through a careful examination of documents of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry and Hungarian newspapers, supplemented by documentation from several European countries. Through Hungarian football, the author traces a history of Hungary during the Age of Extremes with a special focus on the period during which sport played a particular role in Hungarian foreign policy: from 1924, the date of the Paris Olympics, the first time the country competed after World War I, to 1960, date of the Olympics of Rome. The result is a study from a particularly original perspective, highlighting, first and foremost, the transnational dimension of Hungarian football.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111137414
ISBN:: 9783111137414
ISBN:: 9783111136196
ISBN:: 9783111137599
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Modern History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: East Central Europe
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Political Ideologies and Ideas
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg