Sport, nation, genderbasque soccer madness

  1. Vaczi, Mariann
Supervised by:
  1. Alfonso Unceta Satrústegui Director
  2. Joseba Zulaika Director

Defence university: Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

Fecha de defensa: 22 April 2013

Committee:
  1. Sandra Ott Chair
  2. Pello Salaburu Etxeberria Secretary
  3. Joseba Zulaika Committee member
Department:
  1. Sociología y trabajo social

Type: Thesis

Teseo: 121425 DIALNET

Abstract

A centenarian Basque soccer club, Athletic Club (Bilbao) is the ethnographic locus of this dissertation. From a center of the Industrial Revolution, a major European port of capitalism and the birthplace of Baque nationalism and political violence, Bilbao turned into a post-Fordist paradigm of globalization and gentrification. Beyond tradicional axes of identification that create social divisions, what unites Basques in Bizkaia province is a soccer team with a philosophy unique in the world of professional sport: Athletic only recruits local Basque players.