Overview
- Examines how football became the key cultural signifier of national identity in Argentina
- Shows how football projected Argentina onto the global consciousness not seen in any other way
- Discusses how football gave some ‘voiceless others’ an arena to project themselves in Argentine society
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics (PASSP)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines how since its arrival in 1867 with British immigrants, football has become the key cultural signifier of national identity in Argentina over the long twentieth century. With the international exploits of players such as Luis Monti, Alfredo Di Stéfano and Diego Maradona, the sport has projected Argentina onto the global consciousness not seen in any other way.
In this book, Mark Orton challenges existing myths surrounding the nativisation of football in Argentina away from British influence, as he shows how the game provided a conduit for the assimilation of millions of European immigrants in the early decades of the century into a new Argentine ‘race’. The book also examines how football gave some of the ‘voiceless others’ such as women, Afro-Argentines, indigenous people and those in the interior an arena to project themselves in an Argentine society that was masculine, white and Buenos Aires-dominated.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Mark A. Orton is an independent researcher with a PhD and MA in sports history from the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. His research interests focus on national identity and sport in Spain and Latin America.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Football and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Argentina
Book Subtitle: La Nuestra
Authors: Mark Orton
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20589-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-20588-0Published: 10 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-20591-0Published: 11 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-20589-7Published: 09 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2365-998X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-9998
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 305
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Latin American History, Modern History, Sport Science