“Good Players” or “Good People”: Masculinities, Mobilities, and Class in Argentinian Rugby

Fuentes, Sebastián; Guinness, Daniel

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“…Studies of masculinity in Argentina largely naturalize the link between masculinity and power. Many authors discuss the place of masculinity in high‐prestige social settings; for example, Badaró (2015) in the military, Mendoza (2020) with Patagonian park rangers, and Fuentes and Guinness (2019) with elite rugby clubs. Moving from socially privileged to subaltern men, while maintaining the link between masculinity and power, Whitson (2010) examines informal workers’ gender norms following the millennial economic crisis.…”

Section: Masculinities and The Nationmentioning

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Pyrrhic nationals: The promise and pitfalls of masculine civic belonging in Argentina

McNamara¹

2021

Feminist Anthropology

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In this article I discuss an Argentine workfare program as an entry point to challenge dominant understandings of the relationship between masculinity and the nation‐state. By examining this program as it is enacted in Huerta Maipú, a community farm in the outskirts of Córdoba, Argentina, I explore how materializing nationally appropriate masculinity can impede the realization of the substantive benefits associated with national inclusion. Drawing upon Lauren Berlant's (2011) Cruel Optimism, I develop the concept of Pyrrhic Nationals to describe this dynamic. My argument builds upon a subordinated approach to understanding masculinity which I put into conversation with anthropological analyses of the role of civil society in neoliberal regimes. Even though Huerta Maipú was explicitly constructed as an anti‐market, anti‐capitalist and anti‐patriarchal site, materializing masculinities through social and community activism entailed becoming the exact subjects required by neoliberal projects.

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Section: Masculinities and The Nationmentioning

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Pyrrhic nationals: The promise and pitfalls of masculine civic belonging in Argentina

McNamara¹

2021

Feminist Anthropology

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“…"Destinies" can also be contrasted with class (see Fuentes and Guinness 2019). Class has a decisive influence in sports career trajectories.…”

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6 Athletic Migrant Religiosities and the Making of ‘Respectable Men’

Hildo de Oliveira Filho

2020

Men, Masculinities and the Modern Career

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Brazilians comprise a "global football workforce" (Poli, Ravenel and Besson 2019) as the largest national group of migrant players in contemporary football. Previous ethnographic studies (Rial 2008, 2012) reveal that Brazilian athletes value the opportunity to move across borders. In constructing mobile aspirations, athletes from the Global South attempt to embody a form of respectable masculinity (Esson 2015a; Besnier, Guinness, Hann and Kovač 2018). Although their movement is advantageous to many parties, sports migrants are among the most visible and precarious nodes of sports industries. Athletes are regularly subjected to short-term contracts and premature career termination due to injuries (Roderick 2006). In this chapter, I will analyse how migrant Brazilian football and futsal players construct narratives about their careers, express masculinities and embody religious symbols in the Czech Republic, Lebanon, Austria, and Israel. My analysis is based on life-history interviews with migrant athletes, and informal conversations with one sports agent and one migrant futsal coach (Connell 2010; Butler 2005). Life-history interviews reveal not only how athletes use religious symbols in their everyday life, but also how race, gender, and class are articulated in sports migrants' experiences. This chapter is inspired by my engagement with Talal Asad's "anthropology of secularism" (1987, 2000, 2003) as well as Saba Mahmood's (2001, 2005) analysis of a contemporary women's religious movement in Cairo. I argue that Asad's and Mahmood's analyses of the relationship between religion, agency, pain, and suffering open paths to new understandings and interpretations of the subjective experiences of contemporary sport migrants.

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Rugby e Argentina: dos valores e suas contradições à disputa pela formação da identidade nacional

Araujo

Giglio

2022

Rev. Bras. Ciênc. Esporte

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RESUMO Este ensaio discute a relação entre o rugby e a questão da identidade nacional argentina. O trabalho apresenta uma breve contextualização sobre o rugby argentino e sua formação social, o papel do capitão no rugby e como é disputada a identidade nacional dentro do esporte. A partir disso, relaciona a homenagem da Seleção Argentina de rugby ao falecimento de Diego Maradona e o caso de racismo envolvendo alguns atletas, incluindo o capitão Pablo Matera. Como conclusão, aponta como essa identidade se manifesta em um lugar duplo, isto é, na sua relação dentro do país ao negar o que é nacional, e ao se apropriar do nacional-popular na relação com o exterior.

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“Good Players” or “Good People”: Masculinities, Mobilities, and Class in Argentinian Rugby

Cited by 3 publications

References 20 publications

Pyrrhic nationals: The promise and pitfalls of masculine civic belonging in Argentina

Pyrrhic nationals: The promise and pitfalls of masculine civic belonging in Argentina

6 Athletic Migrant Religiosities and the Making of ‘Respectable Men’

Rugby e Argentina: dos valores e suas contradições à disputa pela formação da identidade nacional

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