Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda

Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda has been a professor and researcher at the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV CPDOC) since 2010. He holds a PhD in Social History of Culture from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and is the author of O descobrimento do futebol: modernismo, regionalismo e paixão esportiva em José Lins do Rego (Rio de Janeiro: Edições Biblioteca Nacional, 2004), his first book. Throughout his career, he has undertaken several international research mobilities. In 2009, he was awarded a Hermès Fellowship from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), which enabled him to pursue postdoctoral research at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH). In 2018, he was selected for a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Birmingham through the Rutherford Fellowship program. In 2020, he conducted research at the International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES-FIFA). More recently, in 2022–2023, he was a visiting researcher at the Institute of Latin American Studies (IHEAL, Sorbonne Nouvelle), for a two-month research stay.

The project

Title: Le football comme arène des conflits : disputes symboliques et significations sociales autour du supportérisme au Brésil et en France

Hosting institution: Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur les Amériques (CREDA)

Selective Bibliography

• Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda, Tiago Fernandes Maranhão, Lívia Gonçalves Magalhães, The beautiful game reimagined: women’s soccer in Brazil, New York, Common Ground, 2025
• Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda, Raphael Rajão Ribeiro, Football and oral history in Brazil, London, New York, Routledge, 2025
• Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda, Luiz Guilherme Burlamaqui, Latin American sport media: the making of a political history of sport, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
• Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda, Thomas Busset, Football fandom in Europe and Latin America: culture, politics, and violence in the 21^st century, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022