The Digital Library of Latin American and Caribbean Sports (DLLACS)

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• Research Guide to Latin American and Caribbean Sport: Home
  Research guide made for researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, but has some relevant information for a wider audience. Some databases are only accessible for authorized users at U of I.
• Cuadernos del Mundial
  This website provides visual and writing material critically analyzing the 2018 FIFA World Cup considering its political, social, and cultural dimensions. The effort replicates a similar one produced for the previous World Cup in 2014, in Brazil. The site is published by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, CLACSO), a very influential network of Latin American scholars and think tanks developing critical scholarship in and about a wide variety of Latin American issues. One of the CLACSO's working groups is "Sports, public policies, and society (Deporte, políticas públicas y sociedad) and their members feed this website. The material available includes a periodical about the FIFA World Cup, as well as videos, and audios. The material produced about the 2014 FIFA World Cup is also available. It has been collected by the DLLACS collection at the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Library.