Watson, PJ orcid.org/0000-0001-6112-8751 (2020) No Place for a Left-winger: The Historical Relationship Between Football and the FARC in Colombia. Journal of War and Culture Studies, 13 (4). pp. 402-423. ISSN 1752-6272
Abstract
This article explores the relationship between the FARC (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and football in Colombia. It argues that until the presidency of Juan Manuel Santos, the FARC had been excluded from being part of the national ‘us’ when celebrating successes of the national men’s football team. In fact, sporting nationalism projects articulated around World Cup successes in 1962, 1990, 1994 and the Copa América in 2001 projected the national football team as being symbolically representative of a nation against an ‘other’ that was Colombia itself. This other was the ‘Narcolombia’ of the FARC, drug traffickers, violence, terrorism and criminality that had become notorious internationally, and was the image most associated with the country. This rhetorical positioning shifted under Santos, when football became a bridge to allow the FARC back into the nation given the political backdrop of the peace negotiations between the government and the FARC.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author produced version of an article published in Journal of War and Culture Studies. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Colombia; FARC; football; sporting nationalism; sport for development and peace; President Juan Manuel Santos; FIFA World Cups |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > Spanish & Portuguese (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 22 Nov 2021 15:54 |
Last Modified: | 21 Apr 2023 00:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/17526272.2020.1829785 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:180332 |