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Sports and Nationalism in Latin/o America

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Sports and nationalism are two forms of imagining and actively constructing the connections that justify and explain our belonging to a community. In fact, 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 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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L’Hoeste, H.F., Irwin, R.M., Poblete, J. (2015). Introduction. In: L’Hoeste, H.F., Irwin, R.M., Poblete, J. (eds) Sports and Nationalism in Latin/o America. New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137518002_1

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