A STUDY OF PUBLIC POLICY ON SPORTS IN ARGENTINA: NOTIONS OF SOCIAL SPORTS DURING MENEMISM AND KIRCHNERISM.

Abstract

This paper seeks to analyze the representation of social sport in the guidelines of public policy developed byArgentina’s “Sport Department of the Nation” during two specific administrations: Fernando Galmarini’s in 1989-1992, under the Carlos Menem administration, and Claudio Morresi’s in 2004-2014, during Néstor Kirchner’s and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s terms in office. The work uses the ethnographic approach to understand actors’ perspectives. It aims to discuss – both in theory and methodologically – with local works under in the social studies about sports, where the latter term was approached as a social arena to study different topics, not producing an analysis of this category in native terms. Therefore, we propose an analysis that includes meanings assigned to “social sport” in its social terms, covering the process of renewal and reinterpretation of that category.