Register with Jonathan Ferreira, jonathan.ferreira@ulb.be
Program
Session 1: Wednesday, 4 March (GMT+1) (English) 11:00: Chair: Jonathan Ferreira – Introduction
Panel 1: Sports, power, political economy and mobility
11:10–11:25: The Digital Arena: The Global Rise of E-sports as a Novel Tool of Public Diplomacy – Renhui Feng (Chengdu Sport University)
11:25–11:40: Playing the game: football, nationality choices and border-crossing in Ireland – David Storey (University of Worcester)
11:40–11:55: Geopolitical turbulences and flows of human capital: the global mobility of football players – Zsolt Havran (Corvinus University of Budapest); Diána Ivett Fűrész (University of Pécs); Ákos Jarjabka (University of Pécs)
11:55–12:10: There is no place like ‘Home’: the challenge of mapping the distribution of sports clubs in the UK and Ireland – David Barrett (Sheffield Hallam University)
12:10–12:25: Reconceptualising Accessibility to Sport Infrastructure–Ken Nguyen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
12:25–12:40: Greenways in Motion: Recreational Running, Affective Atmospheres, and Social Infrastructure in Chongqing – Zhenke Xie (Queen Mary University of London)
12:40–13:40: Q&A
Session 2: Wednesday, 4March (GMT+1) (English) Chair: Jonathan Ferreira
Panel 2: Sports and urban transformation
15:00–15:15: Kolkata and Soccer: The Socio-spatial Dialectic – Ankur Konar (University of Burdwan)
15:15–15:30: Ordinary Sport, Ordinary Cities: producing urban space through football and kabaddi in Mumbai – Balbir Singh Aulakh (Tata Institute of Social Sciences)
15:30- 15:45: Football Fandom Typologies, Ethnic Geographies and Urban Communities in Nairobi, Kenya – Maurice Omollo (Maasai Mara University) & Solomon Waliaula (Maasai Mara University)
15:45–16:00: The Digital Legacy Gap: Public Perception and Technological Evolution of Barcelona 92 Venues – Marcela Garza (Ramon Llull University)
16:00–16:15: The Importance of Newspapers for Determining Urban Toponyms: The Case of the “Downtown” of Rio de Janeiro and the Founding of the CR Vasco da Gama (1898) – Lucas Nascimento de Mattos (Universitat de Barcelona/Universidade Federal Fluminense)
16:15–16:30: Brexit FC: Do football clubs, and their migrant playing staff, act as local symbols and affect Leave voting patterns in the 2016 referendum? – Noah Vanderhoeven (Western University)
16:30–17:30: Q&A
Session 3: Thursday, 5 March (GMT+1) (English) Chair: Jean-Michel De Waele
Panel 3: Sports, urban space and socio-spatial transformations
12:00–12:15: Football and Territoriality in Croatian Cities: Symbolic Markings and the Production of Relational Space (2019–2023) – Andrej Ivan Nuredinović (Institute of social sciences Ivo Pilar); Dino Vukušić (Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar)
12:15–12:30: ’The stands can be saved’ – Portuguese supporters’ responses to socio-spatially driven stadium security reforms – Daniel Freire Santos (NOVA University of Lisbon)
12:30–12:45: Running Geographies of Leiden: Agency, Affordance and the Co-Creation of Urban Space – Andy Fuller (Reading Sideways Press/Everyday Runners)
12:45–13:00: Condominium wave pools – simulacrum, magnificence and the appropriation of the surfing universe in real estate advertising in Brazil’s interior – André Tavares (Univerisdade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
13:00–13:15: Official Football Among Workers: Sociability and Urban Change in Ipiranga, São Paulo (1910–1950) – Rogério Vieira Gomes (University of Coimbra); Daniel Bruno Vasconcelos (Universidade de São Paulo)
13:15–13:30: Moving Grounds: Urban Political Economy through conflicting narratives in two football stadium relocation projects in southern Portugal – Tiago Ascensão (University of Minho); Maria Runkel Cardoso (NOVA University of Lisbon); Gil Gonçalves (NOVA University of Lisbon); Daniel Freire Santos (NOVA University of Lisbon)
13:30–14:30: Q&A
Session 4: Thursday, 5 March (GMT+1) (English) Chair: Marcel Azevedo D’Alexandria
Panel 4: Power, access and conflict in the production of sport spaces
17:00–17:15: Sports–Cultural Space Production in the Qilian Mountain Region: A Study through Lefebvre’s Theory of the Production of Space – Hanyi Li (University of Manchester)
17:15–17:30: Land use planning and outdoor recreation facilities: A Geographical Analysis of Pump Track Development in France – Benjamin Pelican (Université de Rouen Normandie); Romain Lepillé (Université de Rouen Normandie)
17:30–17:45: Between Price and Access: Stadium Elitization and the Obstacles to Producing Data on Ticket Policies in Brazilian Football – Irlan Simões Santos (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro), Maíra Tavares Eustáquio de Oliveira (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro), Nathalia Maia Terra de Faria (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) e João Vitor Sudário (Universidade Federal Fluminense);
17:45–18:00: “It’s not all glamourous”: The Realities and Impacts of Being an International Sports Migrant – Catherine Waite (University of Northampton)
18:00–18:15: The geography of violence in brazilian football based on the cases mapped in 2024 – João Vitor Cardoso Sudário (Universidade Federal Fluminense); Raquel de Oliveira Sousa (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro); Nicolás Cabrera (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
18:15–19:15: Q&A
Session 5: Friday, 6 March (GMT+1) (Spanish) Chair: María Verónica Ibarra
Panel 5: Sport, territorialities, bodies and cultural power
17:00–17:15: Mbya Guarani Indigenous League of Santa Catarina, Brazil: territorial and cultural connections networked through football – Gabriel Pereira (Universidade Estadual Paulista)
17:15–17:30: Indigenous Football in Latin America: Territoriality Across Geographical, Literary, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives – João Henrique Rosa Gonçalves (Universidade de São Paulo); Dorival Bonfá Neto (Universidade de São Paulo)
17:30–17:45: Involving territories: How do capoeira practitioners build territorial identities and body technique singularities in Western Europe? Examples in France, Switzerland and Belgium – Alexandre Reubrecht (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
17:45–18:00: With the ball and the bike, bodies in resistance: a feminist geographical approach to cycling and football by women in Colombia – Maira Yesenia Trujillo Vanegas (Universidade Federal do Piauí)
18:00–18:15: Colombian footballers of the Sixties and Seventies: Local Spaces and Regional Hierarchies – Ingrid Johanna Bolívar Ramírez (Universidad de los Andes)
18:15–18:30: Footballization products in Portugal: Charismal Domination of Cristiano Ronaldo about children and young people – Rodrigo Koch (Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul (BRA)/Universidade de Aveiro)
18:30–19:30: Q&A
Session 6: Friday, 6 March (GMT+1) (Spanish) Chair: Luiz Guilherme Burlamaqui
Panel 6: Sport, space, and political economy
20:00–20:15: From Azteca Stadium to Banorte Stadium; power and football under neoliberalism – María Verónica Ibarra García (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
20:15–20:30: Territorialization and deterritorialization in Brazilian football stadiums: power, identity, and control of the stands by ultras – Natalia Lage (Universidade do Estado da Bahia) & Agripino Souza Coelho Neto (Universidade do Estado da Bahia)
20:30–20:45: Sport as a space of power: the far right and the return of the ideology of exclusion – Dante Guillermo Celis Galindo (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
20:45–21:00: When a Place Becomes a Space: Reforms at the park “Artigas” in the city of Paysandú (1994–1995) – Rodrigo Rohrer (Universidad de la República)
21:00–21:15: The strategic role of financialization in the global Geopolitics of Sport – Elvis Simões Pitoco da Silva (Universidade Estadual Paulista)
21:15–21:30: Forbidden geographies of Pulgarcito: the Bukele elite and the production of sports spaces in El Salvador – Jonathan Montero Oropeza (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
21:30–21:45: Football and the geographical notion of scale: an analysis of the Brazilian role in the football’s political economy – Leandro Luís Lino dos Santos (Universidade Estadual Paulista) & Rodrigo Accioli Almeida (Universidade de São Paulo)
21:45–22:45: Q&A
Complete schedule
1st session, March 4, Wednesday 11:00 (English)
2nd session, March, Wednesday 15:00 (English)
3rd session, March 5, Thursday 12:00 (English)
4th session, March 5, Thursday 17:00 (English)
5th session, March 6, Friday 17:00 (Spanish)
6th session, March 6, Friday 20:00 (Spanish)
Registration required: jonathan.ferreira@ulb.be
