Football and Stereotypes: Narratives of Difference between Argentina and Brazil

ALABARCES, PABLO

Bulletin of Latin American Research

Wiley

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2018 vol. 38 p. 553 - 566

Through an analysis of football, this work explores how stereotypessuch as tropicalism and Europeanism are used to construct narrativesof national identity in Argentina and Brazil. These stereotypes, which are the consequence of colonial perspectives that seek to reduce hetero-geneity in order to gain symbolic power, appear to be effective when we consider their prominence in a range of media. This study argues thatthese stereotypes need to be deconstructed using methodologies basedin the social sciences, while also considering the role of humour in theirproduction and dissemination.