Place, identity and football: Catalonia, Catalanisme and Football Club Barcelona, 1899–1975
2008; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 10; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/14608940802249965
ISSN1469-9907
Autores Tópico(s)Sports and Physical Education Studies
ResumoAbstract A growing body of work considers sport and the social construction of identities. Drawing from that research, this article considers how football clubs are involved in the construction of national identities by making explicit the connections between sport, identity and place. The first part of the article examines the literature addressing sport and collective identification/representation and considers critical approaches that uncover the power relations that frame the sport/identity nexus. The second part of the article applies these ideas to a discussion of Football Club Barcelona's role in the social construction of Catalan nationalism and national identity from 1899 to 1975. Keywords: sportplaceidentityBarcelonaCatalonianationalismfootball Acknowledgements The author thanks Rachel Greer, Alexander Murphy, Susan Hardwick, Shaul Cohen, Ronald Wixman, Lynn Kahle and three anonymous reviewers for their suggestions and comments on this article. This research was funded in part by an International Trade and Development Graduate Fellowship from the Nippon Foundation. Notes 1. These places acknowledged in the world of football that go unrecognised as independent countries in the world of state politics are: American Samoa, Anguilla, Aruba, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Chinese Taipei, England, Faeroe Islands, Guam, Hong Kong, Macau, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Northern Ireland, Palestine, Puerto Rico, Scotland, Turks and Caicos Islands, US Virgin Islands and Wales. 2. Today the Camp Nou seats shy of 100,000, and remains the largest stadium in Europe (Tomás, 2004d). 3. This Spanish Cup competition was renamed the 'King's Cup' after the fall of the dictatorship and the re-installation of the monarchy.
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