Titlebook: Sports and Nationalism in Latin / o America; Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste,Robert McKee Irwin,Juan Book 2015 Palgrave Macmillan, a division o

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Guillermo Vilas, “Tennis’s Sexiest Man”: The Argentine Dictatorship in the US Tennis Press, 1974–198Notwithstanding Argentina’s surprise victory in the World Cup in 1978, Vilas was quite likely the best-known Argentine in the United States throughout his prime, and yet his image in the United States was never reconciled with that of his homeland, even as the latter’s human rights abuses provoked w

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Introductionposed to nationalism’s ideologically explicit inculcations in more formal settings such as the school system. Indeed, there are few aspects of everyday life that more passionately invoke patriotic sentiments than international sports competitions such as the World Cup or the Olympic Games.

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Football and ,, Ten Years Later: Sports Nationalism as a Commoditywas approved on February 8 of 2002. When my editor proposed its publication as a book, I reviewed the last chapter in order to supplement the analysis of the Korea-Japan World Cup held during the crisis: with that addition, the thesis was published in December of 2002.

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The Meanings of Manu: Style, Race, and Globalization in the Culture of Basketball“our attention has been drawn to a new form of critical sport analysis: articles that conceptualize particular sporting events or celebrities as texts and offer readings of those texts” (283). Professors Birrell and McDonald elaborate on the features and value of such analyses:

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(F)Utopias: The Nationalist Uses of Soccer in Costa Ricaf the second centennial celebration of Central American independence, the link between nationalism and soccer remains undeniably valid, although as time passes it has acquired new nuances, modalities, and uses.

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Nationalism and Public Policies of Sports in Brazilregime had made a move in this direction, with the development of the legal concept of “mass sport.” The 1988 Constitution, however, restructured this idea by presenting sports as a right for everyone, as a social good to be democratized through Brazilian public policies of sport.

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“You Have the Right to Surf!”: Riding Waves of Modernity, Decolonization, and National Identity in Pa surfer’s tube ride on flat ground by pulling a vinyl tarp in the motion of a hollow wave breaking over a skateboarder riding through the open space created—is a less-than-faithful approximation to surfing, the message is clear: Peru is surfing, and surfing is Peruvian.

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Introductionfact, sports could be said to be one of the key modern terrains for the habitualization of nationalism, for they are practiced, lived experience as opposed to nationalism’s ideologically explicit inculcations in more formal settings such as the school system. Indeed, there are few aspects of everyda