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ISSN 2611-6693 · SHARE Press · 124 articles in the index
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“No son nadie”. Un abordaje de la posición liminal en el fútbol juvenil
Based on an ethnography conducted in a Buenos Aires football club (2019-2022), this article analyzes the stage of the youth footballer as a liminal period and asks whether, throughout this process, a transformation of their social position occurs. The data collected show that, unlike studies on…
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Dressing the nation: historical, political and media disputes around the Brazilian national team’s jersey
This article explores the recent disputes related to the green-yellow jersey of the Brazilian men’s national football team. We will therefore address the far right’s rise in Brazil, represented by Bolsonarism, and its attempt to appropriate national symbols, including the Brazilian national team’s…
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Introduction
The collection of articles explores the intersection between sport and the broader cultural, social, political and media phenomena of our time, crossing very different geographical, temporal and socio-cultural areas.
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Form of transcendence in sports. Suggestion from Hollywood
This paper examines how lifestyle sport practitioners experience forms of transcendence, altered perception, and connection with nature, and considers whether these experiences can be meaningfully interpreted through concepts associated with shamanic practice. Drawing on Roger Caillois’ taxonomy…
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The football turn in contemporary art: how the game became an artistic language
The article explores the “football turn” in contemporary art, analysing how football has progressively become a legitimate cultural object within the artistic field. Drawing on the model of cultural diamond developed by Wendy Griswold the study examines the intersections between football and…
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Attaccante fino alla fine: identità sportiva, celebrità, malattia e autobiografia nell’esperienza di Stefano Borgonovo
This study analyses, from a sociological perspective, the transformation of the identity of Stefano Borgonovo, a former professional footballer, following his diagnosis with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Through a phenomenological-interpretative analysis of his posthumous autobiography…
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Television, mediatization, and globalization of sport: the case of the first Olympic worldwide broadcast from Tokyo 1964
The 1964 Tokyo Olympics represent a turning point in the history of the mediatization of sport. Broadcast live globally via satellite, they marked the beginning of worldwide sports television and established a ritualistic model of collective media consumption. This article analyzes the television…
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The Kings League challenge. Glorification of commercialized and spectacularized sport
The Kings League represents a challenge within the global football industry, pushing the relationship between sport, spectacle and entertainment to its limits in the digital age. It does so through many elements: eccentric rules designed to maximize unpredictability and excitement; the combination…
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Calcio e fumetto: la disegnata dalla carta al digitale
This article examines the intersections between sports and comics, illustrating how both are products of modern society and the cultural industry system. The discussion primarily focuses on the Italian context, analyzing Carmelo Silva’s so-called disegnate. It emphasizes the ways in which these…
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Media e calcio in Italia dal Novecento a oggi. Simonelli, G. (2024). Quasi gol. Storia sentimentale del calcio in tv, Manni
È possibile una storia romantica del calcio raccontata dai media? È questa la sfida che il bel libro Quasi gol. Storia sentimentale del calcio in tv di Giorgio Simonelli (2024), storico dei media e del giornalismo, affronta nell’arco di 160 pagine. Inevitabile punto di partenza di questa avventura…
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La gestione delle emozioni e la crescita socio-emotiva nei fighters: una ricerca empirica sugli atleti di kickboxing della Federkombat
Sport is a widespread educational practice involving over 200 million children and young people worldwide, fostering personal development and emotional management within a context of enjoyment and social relationships. An exploratory study conducted on Federkombat’s kickboxing athletes during the…
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Taekwondo-In as a platform for the social integration of migrants
This article examines the phenomenon of social integration of migrants through the practice of the sporting and physical cultural activities. More specifically, it illustrates how Taekwondo, as a martial art and combat sport, can contribute to social integration. A collective instrumental case…
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The “dividual” person and the self-made wrestling star in Senegalese làmb (wrestling with punches)
In Senegal, làmb (wrestling with punches) is both a national sport and a popular passion. Since the 1990s, a neoliberal ethos has emerged within làmb, with an increasing number of wrestlers conceiving the sport as an individual business venture and embodying self-entrepreneurial attitudes. Yet, a…
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Towards Co-Production: The Case of Movement Inspired by Martial Arts (MIMA)
One of the major streams of social scientific research on martial arts and combat sports has tended to examine these fighting practices and their distinct techniques of the body from an ethnographic perspective, studying typically young, male practitioners in their regular training environments. A…
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“A boy is always going to be superior to a girl” – The ideal of fighting like a man or accepting inferiority for women karateka
In a gender binary environment such as karate, oriented by a traditional martial pedagogy (Cynarsky et al., 2012), the way women express themselves is often seen as disconcerting and irrational. For many men, women are far from achieving the ideal of a fighter, what is around a high-performance…
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Fight like a girl. The impact of menstruation on female athletes in combat sports
This paper aims to investigate the relationship between menstruation and sports, specifically from the perspective of women who play combat sports. Much of the research concerning sports, and the factors that affect sports performance, is based on a universal male subject. It does not take into…
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Media e Pugilato, tra rilevanza storica e futuro incerto. Il caso italiano di “The Art of Fighting” Promotion
This article aims to explore the relationship between media and boxing through the analysis of a case study. The theoretical research approach is guided by the framework of sport mediatization, which is outlined in the first half of the paper with a specific focus on the discipline of boxing. The…
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L’impatto sociale delle due ruote. Biciclette e trasformazioni contemporanee
Recensione del volume: Un’analisi interdisciplinare tra storia, sociologia e innovazione tecnologica. Landri, P. (a cura di) (2023). Bici & Società, FrancoAngeli
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Cartografía de los estudios sociales sobre el deporte
Recensione del volume: Levoratti, A. (2024). Cartografía de los estudios sociales sobre el deporte. Debates clásicos y actuales, UNSAM Edita