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- Convenor:
-
Matthew Brown
(University of Bristol)
- Location:
- Malet 253
- Start time:
- 3 April, 2014 at
Time zone: Europe/London
- Session slots:
- 1
Short Abstract:
This panel brings together researchers from across the social sciences, arts and humanities to discuss the role of sport in Latin American societies throughout history and in the present.
Long Abstract:
Sport has become a considerable object of academic interest in recent years. In June 2014, the FIFA World Cup will be held in Brazil, for the first time since 1950. Two years later the Olympic Games will be held in Rio de Janeiro. Much research has been carried out to locate these tournaments within their global social, cultural, political and economic histories, paying particular attention to the role of visual cultures, mega-event organisation, nationalism and even individual sportspeople in shaping the spectacle. This panel will bring together researchers from across the social sciences, arts and humanities to discuss the role of sport in Latin American societies throughout history and in the present. The approach is broad and aims to be comparative across and between countries, regions, disciplines and sports. Paper proposals are welcome from postgraduates through to established academics.
Accepted papers:
Session 1Svitlana Biedarieva (Courtauld Institute of Art)
Paper short abstract:
The paper focuses on the legacies of the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968 and Moscow in 1980, and compares Olympic influences on official art production and development of alternative art practices inside urban space of the megapolises.
Paper long abstract:
This paper presents the ongoing PhD research that focuses on the influence of the Olympic Games in Mexico City 1968 and Moscow 1980 on the development of art in urban space. Mexico and the USSR are considered as two polar points marking the process of the Olympic expansion taking place from the beginning of 1960s. The paper investigates the influence of the Olympic events on creation of an externalized ideal image of a state, and the subsequent process of sociocultural transformation inside the countries. The research focuses on influences of the symbolic expression of national identity and international perspective on the development of a post-Olympic city.
In the paper Olympic Moscow appears as a city of a void, as both official events of the Games were subverted by international boycott, and at the same time alternative art was "pushed out" to the suburban margins of Moscow. In 1960s Mexico City experienced intensive assimilation of surrounding villages, and the city centre decreased in its ideological importance as an official site of culture. These two parallel models of relation between centre and periphery in the dialogue "official-underground" is one of the focal points of my research in the context of the Olympic Games. The paper argues that after the Olympic Games similar processes of transformation in cultural situation could be considered and, as a result, the balance between governmentally approved art and experimental alternative art changed.
Gloria Lanci (University of Bristol)
Paper short abstract:
The paper will present preliminary findings of a project that quantifies, maps and analyses the British presence in São Paulo. It will discuss the possible links between the direction of urban expansion and the establishment of football grounds in the city.
Paper long abstract:
São Paulo grew considerably in 1890-1930, a period that witnessed unprecedented urban expansion and the transformation of the game of Association Football into the national sport in Brazil. The impact of the British community on these two developments is not widely known. The paper will present preliminary findings of a project that quantifies, maps and analyses the British presence in São Paulo. It will discuss the possible links between the direction of urban expansion and the establishment of football grounds in the city, and related changes in ideas of progress, modernity and civility that united the first footballers.
Valeska Andrea Díaz (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
Paper short abstract:
La siguiente ponencia tiene por objetivo revisar los efectos de la modernización y posteriormente de la globalización sobre las actividades deportivas en Chile, desde las actividades lúdicas de los Mapuches hasta el proceso de implantación del deporte organizado y su recepción en la sociedad actual.
Paper long abstract:
En Chile es posible ver, incluso hasta el día de hoy, confrontaciones culturales entre las minorías étnicas y la sociedad "mestiza". Desde los tiempos de la colonización, el pueblo mapuche se mostró como una fortaleza invencible ante cualquier ataque, siendo el único pueblo indígena que declaró y ganó la guerra a los españoles, consolidándose como nación incluso antes que Chile como tal lograra ese estatus.
A través de crónicas y recopilaciones históricas se puede observar como los mapuches - definidos como un pueblo guerrero - se preparaban físicamente y que muchos de sus ritos históricos poseen gran similitud con el deporte organizado actual (por ejemplo el Palín y el Hockey). Muchas de dichas tradiciones hasta el día de hoy se conservan, sin embargo la mayoría ha desaparecido en procesos como la modernización y la globalización, en donde la influencia extranjera tiene más prestigio que las costumbres de los pueblos originarios en la sociedad chilena, siendo que en muchos casos se trata de actividades similares pero con distintos orígenes.
Bajo la teoría de la praxiología motriz de P. Parlebas nos encontramos con que las actividades mapuches de preparación física pueden ser entendidas como juego deportivo, pero la sociedad no está dispuesta a su práctica, pues el deporte globalizado goza de renombre y admiración.
La ponencia buscará esclarecer desde las prespectiva del deporte como los procesos de desarrollo afectan a los pueblos originarios en Chile.
David Wood (The University of Sheffield)
Paper short abstract:
This paper will explore the use of football stadia as a contested political space in Chile, with a focus on the Estadio Nacional.
Paper long abstract:
The coup that brought General Pinochet to power in September 1973 made Chile's Estadio Nacional synonymous with political violence as thousands were detained there, with many tortured and murdered. This paper will look back to consider briefly the political role played by football stadia prior to 1973 and Chile's presence at the 1974 World Cup finals in West Germany. It will move on to explore the ways in which Chilean writers have used football to contest the appropriation by the military of football's symbolic value and close by examining new openings that the game provides after the return to civilian government.