6.5. Clientelism in Football
The Social, Cultural, and Political Dimensions of Violence in Argentinian Football: An Ethnographic Account by Eugenio Paradiso M.A. (Anthropology), Dalhousie University, 2010 H.B.A., University of Toronto, 2007 Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences © Eugenio Paradiso 2021 SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY Summer 2021 Copyright in this work rests with the author. Please ensure that any reproduction or re-use is done in accordance with the relevant national copyright legislation. Declaration of Committee Name: Eugenio Paradiso Degree: Doctor of Philosophy Thesis title: The Social, Cultural, and Political Dimensions of Violence in Argentinian Football: An Ethnographic Account Committee: Chair: Barbara Mitchell Professor, Sociology and Gerontology Noel Dyck Senior Supervisor Professor, Anthropology Travers Supervisor Professor, Sociology Peter Hall Supervisor Professor, Urban Studies Paul Kingsbury Internal Examiner Professor, Department of Geography Roger Magazine External Examiner Professor, Department of Social and Political Sciences Universidad Iberoamericana ii Ethics Statement iii Abstract My dissertation examines the interplay between football, politics, violence, and morality in Argentina by considering the role of club officials, politicians, and fans, among other actors, in the spread and perpetuation of corruption and violence within and beyond football clubs. Employing a grounded, inductive, and interpretive approach to fieldwork research, I analyze – through observations, semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and document analysis – the degree to which certain practices related to different understandings of violence and corruption have become naturalized within the context of Argentinian football and, by extension, in Argentinian society as a whole.
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