Descripción del proyecto
La política de los megaeventos deportivos
El vínculo entre la política y la cultura popular a menudo deja de lado la repercusión de los megaeventos deportivos mediatizados, como los campeonatos de fútbol. Esto dificulta nuestra comprensión de cómo estos acontecimientos reflejan y conforman la vida política y cómo influyen en el compromiso público con las narrativas políticas a través de los medios de comunicación. Con el apoyo de las Acciones Marie Skłodowska-Curie, el equipo del proyecto PopPolMPME, financiado con financiado con fondos europeos, comparará su mediación y la memoria pública en diversos paisajes políticos y analizará las implicaciones de estas memorias en los legados políticos duraderos. El proyecto se centra en dos campeonatos de fútbol, la UEFA 2020 y la Copa Mundial de la FIFA Rusia 2018, en el contexto del conflicto entre Rusia y Ucrania y el «Brexit». A través del análisis de los medios de comunicación y de grupos de discusión, se ofrecen nuevas perspectivas sobre la intersección entre el deporte, los medios de comunicación y la política.
Objetivo
The growing interest in interplay between politics and popular culture lacks consideration of mediated sports mega-events (SMEs) like football championships. This hinders our understanding of how popular sporting events reflect and impact political life, and how populations engage with and interpret political meanings through media events. This project bridges this gap by investigating the lasting political significance of SMEs through an assessment of their mediation and public memory—both comparatively and retrospectively—in democratic and authoritarian contexts.
The project’s research objectives are to 1) compare the mediation of SMEs across political environments, during and after the events, and vis-à-vis prominent political narratives surrounding them; 2) understand how members of the public remember the events, their mediation, and related political developments; and 3) explore the implications of the public and mediated memory of SMEs for their lasting political legacy, and how popular events reflect and influence people’s engagement with politics.
Specifically, the project will comparatively assess the mediation and public memory of two recent football championships—the pan-European UEFA 2020 and the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup—in the context of two crises affecting politics and public life in Europe: the Russia-Ukraine conflict and Brexit. The two research strands, conducted in the comparative English and Russian national settings, include a) an analysis of media coverage of the tournaments and their legacies by national broadcasters; and b) focus groups with audiences of the SMEs.
This project will develop a novel concept of ‘Mega-event Political Memory Ecology,’ which will have scientific, economic, and societal implications. Marrying approaches from digital memory studies and popular geopolitics, this concept will account for the interrelationship between shifting public and mediated memories of SMEs and public understandings of the political world.
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinador
8000 Aarhus C
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