Following the ball the migration of African soccer players across the Portuguese colonial empire, 1949-1975
"With Following the Ball, Todd Cleveland incorporates labor, sport, diasporic, and imperial history to examine the extraordinary experiences of African football players from Portugal's African colonies as they relocated to the metropole from 1949 until the conclusion of the colonial era in...
Gespeichert in:
| 1. Verfasser: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | UnknownFormat |
| Sprache: | eng |
| Veröffentlicht: |
Athens
Ohio University Press
2017
|
| Schriftenreihe: | Ohio University research in international studies
global and comparative studies series ; 16 |
| Schlagworte: |
Geschichte 1949-1975
> HISTORY / Africa / General / bisacsh
> SPORTS & RECREATION / History / bisacsh
> POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism / bisacsh
> SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration / bisacsh
> SPORTS & RECREATION / Soccer / bisacsh
> Soccer
> History
> Soccer players
> HISTORY / Africa / General
> SPORTS & RECREATION / History
> POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
> SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
> SPORTS & RECREATION / Soccer
> Fußball
> Kolonie
> Afrikaner
> Fußballspieler
> Migration
> Portugal
> Emigration and immigration
|
| Online Zugang: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Tags: |
Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
|
Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "With Following the Ball, Todd Cleveland incorporates labor, sport, diasporic, and imperial history to examine the extraordinary experiences of African football players from Portugal's African colonies as they relocated to the metropole from 1949 until the conclusion of the colonial era in 1975. The backdrop was Portugal's increasingly embattled Estado Novo regime, and its attendant use of the players as propaganda to communicate the supposed unity of the metropole and the colonies. Cleveland zeroes in on the ways that players, such as the great Eus衩o, creatively exploited opportunities generated by shifts in the political and occupational landscapes in the waning decades of Portugal's empire. Drawing on interviews with the players themselves, he shows how they often assumed roles as social and cultural intermediaries and counters reductive histories that have depicted footballers as mere colonial pawns. To reconstruct these players' transnational histories, the narrative traces their lives from the informal soccer spaces in colonial Africa to the manicured pitches of Europe, while simultaneously focusing on their off-the-field challenges and successes. By examining this multi-continental space in a single analytical field, the book unearths structural and experiential consistencies and contrasts, and illuminates the components and processes of empire"... |
|---|---|
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | 266 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780896803138 978-0-89680-313-8 9780896803145 978-0-89680-314-5 |