Football and Fascism : : The Politics of Popular Culture in Portugal / / Rahul Kumar.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• VerfasserIn: Kumar, Rahul,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2023]; Edições Paquiderme, Lisbon 2017, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: RERIS Studies in International Sport Relations , 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (IX, 265 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; Introduction: football, fascism and popular culture --; Part I The sociogenesis of the Portuguese sports field --; Part II The “New State” and sports: ideologies and institutions --; Part III The lost purity of sport: the professionalisation of football players during fascism --; Final Remarks --; References --; Index of Names --; Index of Places --; Index of Themes
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110721508; 9783111319292; 9783111318912; 9783111319131; 9783111318189
• ISSN: 2750-0489
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110721508
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Rahul Kumar.

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.