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Football and Oral History in Brazil

150 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

150 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines the popularity of football in Latin America and the importance of sound archives in a country in which orality is the basis of important social relations.   The development of modern sports in the region is connected to wider national and state-building processes. In this sense, this volume aims to provide a historical overview of the making of the interface between... Read more

1. Football and oral history in Brazil: an introduction

Raphael Rajão and Bernardo Buarque

 

2. Three interviews and a destiny: the story of Havelange or the story of FIFA

Lívia Gonçalves and Sérgio Giglio

 

3. The political elites of football – a methodological inquiry in Oral History

Luiz Burlamaqui and Deivid Ferreira

 

4. The unexpected in an archive: interferences in a football memory collection

Bernardo Buarque and Raphael Rajão

 

5. Voices from the Football Museum: memories of Brazilian players participating at the FIFA World Cup Football editions (1954-1982)

André Capraro

 

6. Problematising the experiences and memories of migrant players

Luiz Carlos Ribeiro

 

7. Stories from pioneers: Esporte Clube Radar and the resumption of women's football post-ban

Caroline Almeida

 

8. Oral History, other stories, and other supporters: narratives of the supporter group Coligay

 Luiza dos Anjos

 

9. Territories of cheering: an analysis of the testimonies of the founders and leaders of the organized fan clubs in São Paulo

 Vitor Canale

 

10. Discourse analysis as an instrument to scientifically investigate the history of football activism in contemporary Brazil: an example of “(anti)fascism" 

Felipe Lopes

 

11. An integrative review of academic papers to explore the connections between football and oral history in Brazil

Marina Dantas

Biography

Raphael Rajão Ribeiro is a researcher at FULIA/UFMG – Center for studies on football, language and arts, and a professor at the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Ceará (IFCE). Qualifications include a PhD in History, Politics and Cultural Goods at the School of Social Sciences at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV/CPDOC), and a master’s in History from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG).

 

Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda is an associate professor at the School of Social Sciences of the Fundação Getulio Vargas and a researcher at the Center for Research and Documentation of Brazilian Contemporary History (FGV CPDOC). He is also a historian, with a PhD in Social History of Culture from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and has held a CNPq research productivity scholarship since 2013. His main topics of research include literary history and modernism, social thought and intellectuals in Brazil, the social history of football and organised football supporting groups.