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Slaman, Patrick (2022)

‘¿La seguridad? ¡Es un negocio!’: Persisting Insecurity in Argentine Football

Master thesis | Latin American Studies (MA)

Despite many social and political initiatives aiming to battle violence in and around stadiums, insecurity in Argentine football persists. Many scholars have assessed a distinctive set of causes of insecurity in the context of Argentine football, but few have assessed the persistent characteristic of it. Building upon a conceptual framework of political clientelism, this research aims to develop an understanding of the reproduction of insecurity in Argentine football. Through a political, economic and cultural dimension, this research concludes that political clientelist networks constitute to an intermediating factor between causes of violence and the reproduction of insecurity.

Insecurity, Argentine football, political clientelist networks, violence, aguante.

Author

Slaman, Patrick

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Public Policies in Latin America

Supervisors

P. Silva

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en