Football and Spanish Cultural Life; Some contemporary perspectives and observations

Abstract

How can the cultural life and identity of a nation state be articulated and expressed when the existence of that nation state is contested and challenged? If history has any capacity to repeat itself, current cultural and political issues in Spanish society provide much evidence for the continued presence of the struggles between centre and region, unity and division which have permeated constructions and representations of Spain since medieval times.

Keywords

• cultural life
• identity
• football