Visions of Gender Justice

Abstract

From 1941From to 1979 women in Brazil were forbidden by law to play the national sport of football and continue to struggle to participate this major aspect of the country's social life. This paper focuses on the political ideas of Juliana Cabral, the captain of the Brazilian women's football team that won the silver medal at the Athens Olympics in 2004. Against a background of organized political contestation of the gender structure in Brazilian sports, I use Paulo Freire's concept of untested feasibility to chronical Juliana Cabral's vision of gender justice in football as well as her actions to promote gender equality within football. This is a particularly important moment of contestation to document given that Brazil is scheduled to host two major world sports events this decade-the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Rio Olympics, which will highlight to the world once again the tensions within the gender social order in the country.

Dual career in Brazil: analysis on men elite futsal players’ academic degree (Carrera dual en Brasil: análisis sobre el nivel académico de los jugadores de futsal de élite)

“…The innovation and contribution from this study, besides to nurture reflections on the sport dual career topic, are also to highlight issues from a Southern Hemisphere country, in a socioeconomic development condition, with a high level of social inequality (Graeff, Gutierrez, Sardá, Bretherton, & Bettine, 2019;Knijnik, 2013), and prominent position on team sports such as futsal Mascarin et al, 2019). To study this Southern social scenario is very relevant within globalized world (Marques & Marchi Júnior, 2020;van der Meij & Darby, 2017), and something not yet so explored by academic international literature (Lago-Peñas, Lago-Peñas, & Lago, 2019).…”

Migration for Work: Brazilian Futsal Players’ Labor Conditions and Disposition for Mobility

“…To analyze sport migration in a particular and specific context from the Southern hemisphere is innovative and relevant (Darby et al, 2007), especially in front of the prominence of South American countries in some team sports, as football (Leeds & Leeds, 2009) and futsal (Mascarin et al, 2019). Results from this study can be especially important because it offers a not much explored landscape, based on the data from a socioeconomically developing country (Rong, 2010) with a high level of social inequality, such as Brazil (Graeff et al, 2019;Knijnik, 2013), being part of the globalized world within its transnational and transcontinental market of sport (Lago-Peñas et al, 2019;Poli et al, 2017).…”

“…In globalized world, where sports have become a transnational social phenomenon involving complex and opened relations of work, consumption, information, culture, and flux of people (Frick, 2009;Lago-Peñas et al, 2019;Leeds & Leeds, 2009;Milanovic, 2005;Poli, 2010), migration is a crucial topic in athletes' career development (Bourke, 2003;Elliott, 2013;Maguire, 2004;Roderick, 2013), both on temporary mobility and permanent terms (Agergaard & Ryba, 2014).…”

“…Sport labor migration is a contested, problematic, and uncertain process that affects the career and life conditions of migrant athletes in several sports (Carter, 2007;Frick, 2009;Lago-Peñas et al, 2019;Maguire, 2013;Roderick, 2012). Research into this area has grown significantly in the last three decades (Elliott & Gusterud, 2018;Lago-Peñas et al, 2019), especially those related to transnational migration on football and its most prominent European professional men leagues (Binder & Findlay, 2012;Elliott, 2013Elliott, , 2016Frick, 2009;.…”

“…Sport labor migration is a contested, problematic, and uncertain process that affects the career and life conditions of migrant athletes in several sports (Carter, 2007;Frick, 2009;Lago-Peñas et al, 2019;Maguire, 2013;Roderick, 2012). Research into this area has grown significantly in the last three decades (Elliott & Gusterud, 2018;Lago-Peñas et al, 2019), especially those related to transnational migration on football and its most prominent European professional men leagues (Binder & Findlay, 2012;Elliott, 2013Elliott, , 2016Frick, 2009;. On the contrary, there is lack of studies and information specially on two dimensions: (a) intranational migration studies, which deserves attention from academic researchers because of its impact on social changes and cultural issues faced by migrants within the same country (Erel, 2010;McKinlay & McVittie, 2007;Roderick, 2013) and (b) research on migration related to other sports beyond football (Elliott & Maguire, 2008;Gavira et al, 2013), such as futsal (Moore et al, 2014;Tedesco, 2014) and its specific social scenarios, for example, in Brazil (Caregnato et al, 2015).…”