SPORTS IDENTITY IN CHILE: A SOCIOCULTURAL AND MATERIAL PROCESS MARKED BY THE STATE AND NEOLIBERALISM.

Authors

  • Rodrigo Andres Soto Lagos Universidad Andrés Bello, Facultad de Educación y Ciencias Sociales, Carrera de Educación Física.
  • Mauro Navarrete Jerez Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales.
  • Solange Freire Arancibia Universidad Andrés Bello, Facultad de Educación y Ciencias Sociales.
  • Carolina Cortés Varas Universidad Andrés Bello, Facultad de Educación y Ciencias Sociales.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-8918.100538

Keywords:

Social Identification. Sports. Athletes. State.

Abstract

The construction of athlete identity is an interesting topic in the field of sociocultural studies of sport. The objective of this study was to analyze the athlete identity construction of the Chilean athletes to gain comprehension on this topic. Through a qualitative study, 17 semi-structured interviews were developed with high performance and recreative athletes from conventional and adapted modalities. The results show that there are two categories to construct Chilean sports identity: sociocultural conditions and material conditions, which are marked by neoliberal logics and values. We conclude by expressing that gender is a dimension that generate alternative discourses to dispute individualism and competition as present values in Chilean athlete identity.

 

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Author Biographies

Rodrigo Andres Soto Lagos, Universidad Andrés Bello, Facultad de Educación y Ciencias Sociales, Carrera de Educación Física.

Doctor en Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV).

Mauro Navarrete Jerez, Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales.

Licenciado en Sociología, Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano (UAHC).

Solange Freire Arancibia, Universidad Andrés Bello, Facultad de Educación y Ciencias Sociales.

Magíster en Salud Pública, Universidad Andrés Bello (UNAB).

Carolina Cortés Varas, Universidad Andrés Bello, Facultad de Educación y Ciencias Sociales.

Magíster en Gestión de la Actividad Física y Deportiva, Universidad Andrés Bello (UNAB).

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Published

2020-06-08

How to Cite

SOTO LAGOS, R. A.; NAVARRETE JEREZ, M.; FREIRE ARANCIBIA, S.; CORTÉS VARAS, C. SPORTS IDENTITY IN CHILE: A SOCIOCULTURAL AND MATERIAL PROCESS MARKED BY THE STATE AND NEOLIBERALISM. Movimento, [S. l.], v. 26, p. e26043, 2020. DOI: 10.22456/1982-8918.100538. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/Movimento/article/view/100538. Acesso em: 24 jun. 2025.

Issue

v. 26, jan./dez. 2020

Section

Original Articles

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