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Following the Ball: The Migration of African Soccer Players across the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1949–1975 (Ohio RIS Global Series Book 16)

Todd Cleveland

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Description:With Following the Ball, Todd Cleveland incorporates labor, sport, diasporic, and imperial history to examine the extraordinary experiences of African football players from Portugal’s African colonies as they relocated to the metropole from 1949 until the conclusion of the colonial era in 1975. The backdrop was Portugal’s increasingly embattled Estado Novo regime, and its attendant use of the players as propaganda to communicate the supposed unity of the metropole and the colonies.Cleveland zeroes in on the ways that players, such as the great Eusébio, creatively exploited opportunities generated by shifts in the political and occupational landscapes in the waning decades of Portugal’s empire. Drawing on interviews with the players themselves, he shows how they often assumed roles as social and cultural intermediaries and counters reductive histories that have depicted footballers as mere colonial pawns.To reconstruct these players’ transnational histories, the narrative traces their lives from the informal soccer spaces in colonial Africa to the manicured pitches of Europe, while simultaneously focusing on their off-the-field challenges and successes. By examining this multi-continental space in a single analytical field, the book unearths structural and experiential consistencies and contrasts, and illuminates the components and processes of empire.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Following the Ball: The Migration of African Soccer Players across the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1949–1975 (Ohio RIS Global Series Book 16). To get started finding Following the Ball: The Migration of African Soccer Players across the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1949–1975 (Ohio RIS Global Series Book 16), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 281

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Release: 2017

ISBN: 0896804992

Description: With Following the Ball, Todd Cleveland incorporates labor, sport, diasporic, and imperial history to examine the extraordinary experiences of African football players from Portugal’s African colonies as they relocated to the metropole from 1949 until the conclusion of the colonial era in 1975. The backdrop was Portugal’s increasingly embattled Estado Novo regime, and its attendant use of the players as propaganda to communicate the supposed unity of the metropole and the colonies.Cleveland zeroes in on the ways that players, such as the great Eusébio, creatively exploited opportunities generated by shifts in the political and occupational landscapes in the waning decades of Portugal’s empire. Drawing on interviews with the players themselves, he shows how they often assumed roles as social and cultural intermediaries and counters reductive histories that have depicted footballers as mere colonial pawns.To reconstruct these players’ transnational histories, the narrative traces their lives from the informal soccer spaces in colonial Africa to the manicured pitches of Europe, while simultaneously focusing on their off-the-field challenges and successes. By examining this multi-continental space in a single analytical field, the book unearths structural and experiential consistencies and contrasts, and illuminates the components and processes of empire.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Following the Ball: The Migration of African Soccer Players across the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1949–1975 (Ohio RIS Global Series Book 16). To get started finding Following the Ball: The Migration of African Soccer Players across the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1949–1975 (Ohio RIS Global Series Book 16), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Following the Ball: The Migration of African Soccer Players across the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1949–1975 (Ohio RIS Global Series Book 16)

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