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Sine Agergaard | Paul Darby | Detlev Claussen | Nina Clara Tiesler |
Dr. phil. Nina Clara Tiesler
Senior Research Fellow
Institute of Social Sciences
University of Lisbon
ninaclara.tiesler@ics.ul.pt
Research interests:
My research interests lie in migration studies and the social sciences of sport and are focused around sports and diasporas. I consider the particular case of association football and migration in and across Portuguese-speaking areas as a privileged field to study both the migration of athletes, and the role of football consumption among emigrant communities. It offers the opportunity to combine sociological and anthropological methods with critical perspectives which derive from post-colonial- and migration studies, and allows to put the subjective experience of concerned migrants (athletes and “consumers”) to the forefront. I have published on issues relating to ethnic and/or religious minorities, concepts of home and belonging, and on football in Portugal and in the globalized world.
Current research:
I am currently coordinating a project which aims to analyse the role of football consumption and identification among Portuguese emigrants in six different countries (DIASBOLA), funded by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT). The project is being conducted as a collaborative venture between the Luso-Brazilian research team and Adam Brown (Substance, Manchester, UK) and Stephen Wagg (Leeds Metropolitan University). It compares the importance of football with other cultural elements (language, cuisine, folklore, etc) in processes of community construction in diasporic settings, as well as in migrant´s daily life and their ways how to perform national belonging and to reconstruct linkages to people and places left behind. Besides that, the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon allows me to realise a comparative qualitative and quantitative study on the fear of injury (and subconsequently coping strategies) among amateur runners and football players in Germany and Portugal. For the near future, I am currently trying to establish project on football player migration from Africa and Brazil to Europe, together with colleagues in Europe and Brazil. Theoretically, this project will be concerned with addressing the ways in which sports labour migration can shed light on globalisation.
Selected publications:
Books author
2010 | (accepted) A Morada de Ser. Europa, muçulmanos e políticas de identidade, Lisbon: ICS (in translation, funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation).
2006 | Muslime in Europa. Religion und Identitätspolitiken unter veränderten gesellschaftlichen Verhältnissen, Berlin, Wien, London: LIT-Verlag.
Books editor
2010 | (forthcoming) O Futebol Português, Lisbon: ICS, with Nuno Domingos.
2008 | Globalized Football: Nations and Migration, the City and the Dream, (hardcover), London, New York, with João Nuno Coelho.
Peer reviewed journals: guest editor
2007 | SOCCER & SOCIETY (Routledge), Vol. 8, No. 4, Globalised Football, with João Nuno Coelho.
2007 | LUSOTOPIE (Brill), Vol. XIV (1), Islam en lusophonies – Islão nas lusofonias – Islam in Portuguese-speaking areas.
2006 | ANÁLISE SOCIAL (ICS), Vol. XLI, No. 179, Futebol Globalizado, with João Nuno Coelho, currently in 2nd edition.
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