Football in Latin America. A recent field, a research agenda in the making

ALABARCES, PABLO; MOREIRA, MARÍA VERÓNICA

Routledge Handbook of Football Studies

Routledge

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2017; p. 457 - 467

The veritable explosion of soccer studies in Latin America began in the fi rst decade of the twenty-fi rst century. The invention of the fi eld dates back to 1982, when Brazilian anthropologist Roberto Da Matta published O Universo do futebol (Da Matta, 1982). However, over the next ten years, production was limited to the works by Da Matta and Argentine anthropologist Eduardo Archetti, who mainly addressed the relationship between football and identity and, to a lesser extent, the phenomena of violence (only Archetti addressed the latter of the two issues). In the 1990s, production began to grow thanks to new researchers, some of whom came together in the Sports and Society Work Group between 1999 and 2002. Financed by CLACSO (the Latin American Council of Social Sciences), this group was able to bring together the knowledge of what was then scarce Latin American research on these topics.