Football UN-ited: From the Game of War to the War of the Game

Brazilian Political Science Review

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ISSN: 19813821
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Início Publicação: 31/12/2006
Periodicidade: Quadrimestral
Área de Estudo: Ciência política

Football UN-ited: From the Game of War to the War of the Game

Ano: 2019 | Volume: 13 | Número: 1
Autores: Kyriakos Kentrotis
Autor Correspondente: Kyriakos Kentrotis | [email protected]

Palavras-chave: Biopolitics, Football, International relations, United Nations; War

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Resumo Inglês:

This study presents the UN’s narrative in the construction of the post-war world. Spanning a period of more than 70 years, this narrative is described through the parallel narrative of football as the game that everyone can play and win, regardless of size, attributes and abilities. Using the language of football through the words of Eduardo Galeano, the paper reveals a common history with different aspects, which is read largely in the light of Michel Foucault’s thinking. In this respect, the UN is approached as fully adapted to a sovereign rationalism that organises reality by ordering each category of (international) political practice and discourse in terms of surveillance and suppression, while at the same time wielding, through its choice of strategies and techniques, a power that has a reformative and productive side. The basic aim of this study is to demonstrate, through the analogy with football, the dual nature of the UN through its application of technologies of power over the course of its lifelong operation.