Call for papers Visioni LatinoAmericane | The Men’s and Women’s World Football Championships. Perspectives from Latin America

Deadline: August 10, 2026.

The popularity of football in Latin America is remarkable. The media devote a significant part of their daily programming to this sport, whether through news coverage or the broadcast of national and international competitions that engage millions of people. Audiences who follow matches on screens also fill the stands of stadiums that have already hosted seven editions of the men’s World Cup, including the very first one held in 1930.

The Football World Cup is a collective ritual that has gained undeniable global significance, also thanks to its media impact. It is a phenomenon in which international financial, socio-economic, political, geopolitical, and identity-related processes interrelate with the national dimension, involving a range of actors in an interconnected way: the athletes and protagonists involved, sport’s governing bodies, sponsors, political and state actors, fans, and so on.

On the international scene, Latin America has always played a prominent role. In this way, Latin America actively participates in the nearly century-long history of the world’s largest football tournament, a global event that, nonetheless, takes on local contours, shaped by traditions, collective memories, expectations of victory, and the social particularities of each country.

Throughout this journey, the male presence predominated in the main global competition. In contrast, women’s football developed on the margins of official recognition, sustained primarily by the collective struggle of women who, facing prohibitions and various obstacles, insisted on their right to play.

The region also played a prominent role in this trajectory. In 1971, Mexico hosted the 2nd Women’s Football World Cup, whose final between the host nation and Denmark brought a packed Estadio Azteca to witness the spectacle. However, it was not until 1991 that FIFA organized the first official Women’s World Cup. Now, in 2027, Latin America will once again host the tournament.

This dossier of Visioni LatinoAmericane thus aims to bring together research and essays that critically examine the editions of the men’s and women’s Football World Cups from perspectives situated within the Latin American context. We are interested in analyses that address, though not exclusively, some topics.

• The place of football and the World Cup in the cultural, social, political, and economic dynamics of Latin America

• World football championships as privileged arenas for constructing identities and circulating narratives about nation, class, gender, ethnicity, minorities, socio-economic justice, etc.

• Analysis of the historical, political, and cultural processes surrounding Latin American participation in the World Cups

• Debates on the social and sporting legacy of the World Cups in Latin American countries.

• The Football World Cup as an industry and as a media event.

• The protagonists of Latin American football in the context of the World Cup.

• Fans, communities, and the Football World Cups.

• The particularities of Latin American modes of cheering in the Football World Cups

• The repercussions of the men’s and women’s World Cups on social media and on the construction of social models.

• The process of consolidating women’s football in international competitions.

• The representations of gender and identity in the World Cups from the perspective of the press

• Comparative studies on men’s and women’s football on the global scene.

• Violence and sport.

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