Uruguayan Football: an Investigation into Identity, Nationality, Modernity and Globalisation

这个博士项目考察了足球在乌拉圭的过去和现在的作用，重点是这项运动对身份、国籍、现代性和全球化的中心地位。一个多世纪以来，足球一直是乌拉圭文化和民族情感的重要组成部分，对这项运动的研究为了解这些过程提供了独特的见解。关于体育的研究横跨社会科学、艺术和人文科学，因此我将采用混合方法，包括档案研究、文本和图像的历史分析、参与者观察和半结构化采访，以调查三个核心问题：1.足球在20世纪初乌拉圭及其他地区的现代性计划中是如何覆盖的？2.这项运动如何用于构建国家认同，以及乌拉圭如何处理这一过程中引发的关于移民、阶级、性别和种族的社会冲突？3.乌拉圭足球的现状如何，与之前的高点相比如何，这如何丰富我们对全球化模式和世界历史的理解？

This doctoral project examines the past and present role of football in Uruguay, focussing on the sport's centrality toidentity, nationality, modernity and globalisation. For over a century, football has been an essential component ofUruguayan culture and national sentiment, and study of the sport offers unique insights into these processes. Researchon sport straddles the social sciences, arts and humanities, and so I will employ a mixed methods approach, includingarchival research, historical analysis of texts and images, participant observation and semi-structured interviews toinvestigate three central questions: 1. How was football imbricated in the project of modernity in Uruguay and beyond inthe early 20th century? 2. How is the sport used in the construction of national identity, and how did Uruguay deal withthe societal conflicts over immigration, class, gender and race which arose from this process? 3. What is the currentstatus of football in Uruguay, how does it compare to its previous highs, and how can this enrich our understandings ofpatterns of globalisation and world history?