Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: This article tries to show through various examples, the significance of sport in the shaping of human beings’ identities since the nineteenth century. The association with nationalism, totalitarian regimes and dictatorships, has not eroded the ability of sport to connect communities. In many cases, this inclusiveness has an important defensive feeling, preventing to consider sports practices as a mere reflection of modernity. Hence the need to historicize sporting identities, contextualizing and seeking interdisciplinary analysis to avoid reductionist views.
Source: Historia y Comunicación Social
Author: Francisco Javier Caspistegui
Institution: Universidad de Navarra
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Funder: University College Dublin
OpenAlex ID: W2060693146