Resumen de Sport, nation, gender: basque soccer madness
A centenarian Basque soccer club, Athletic Club (Bilbao) is the ethnographic locus of this dissertation. From a center of the Industrial Revolution, a major European port of capitalism and the birthplace of Baque nationalism and political violence, Bilbao turned into a post-Fordist paradigm of globalization and gentrification. Beyond tradicional axes of identification that create social divisions, what unites Basques in Bizkaia province is a soccer team with a philosophy unique in the world of professional sport: Athletic only recruits local Basque players.
