Sports and political propaganda: a comparative study of the Vargas government (1930-1945) and Peron (1946-1955)
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sport, politics, comparative history.Abstract
This article has as its main objective the analysis of sport as a political instrument during the first Vargas Era, in Brazil, and during Juan Domingo Perón’s first two mandates, in Argentina. Both Vargas and Perón tried to identify their political regime to the victories on the sport field. Therefore, the State’s control over sport and its usage by the means of political propaganda aimed at creating a link of national identification between sport and government, reaffirming the new models of nation and citizens produced by varguism and peronism. The article also attempts analyzing the differences in the approach of each government in their models of intervening in the internal structure of sport. We hope this dissertation may bring significant contributions to the debate on the production of political ideology through sport, as on the process of the making of national identities in Latin America, especially in Brazil and Argentina.
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