Golden and blue like my heart : masculinity, youth, and power among soccer fans in Mexico City / Roger Magazine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Magazine, Roger, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soccer--Social aspects--Mexico.

Soccer.

Soccer fans--Mexico--Attitudes.

Soccer fans.

Youth--Political activity--Mexico.

Youth.

Youth--Political activity.

Masculinity.

Soccer--Social aspects.

Mexico.

Masculinity--Mexico.

Democracy--Mexico.

Democracy.

Pumas (Soccer team).

Physical Description:

xiii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2007]

Summary:

For fans of pro soccer in Mexico City, the four most popular teams represent distinct identities that embody such attributes as political power, nationalism, and working-class values. One of these teams, the Pumas, is associated with youthfulness, and its equally youthful fans take pride in the fact that their heroes have not yet been corrupted by corporate or political interests. This ethnographic study examines Pumas fans' understanding of the ideal that the team represents, considers the practices they employ to express and sometimes contradict this ideal, and reveals how soccer fandom in contemporary Mexico has emerged as a nexus of tensions among competing visions of state and society. Golden and Blue Like My Heart offers a new way of understanding the dynamics of fandom while shedding new light on larger social processes and youth culture in Mexico. And with its insight into soccer culture, politico-economic transition, and masculinity, it has important and wide-reaching implications for all of Latin America.

Contents:

Introduction : soccer fandom and competing social projects in contemporary Mexico

Being Puma : life as passionate heartfelt expression

A day at the stadium : the clash of cheering styles and modes of sociality

Performing motherlessness : violence, masculinity, and the subversive use of an invented tradition

The porra as a process of domination, struggle, and innovation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-216) and index.

ISBN:

9780816526376

0816526370

9780816526932

0816526931

OCLC:

82673544