Pedro Acuña
Biographic Data
| ID | 157264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pedro Acuña |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pedro |
| FAMILY NAME | Acuña |
| SIGNATURE | ACUÑA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9069-3813 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Soccer as civic pedagogy
Barrabases was the most popular children’s soccer comic in Chile and the first of its kind in the Spanish-speaking world. Created by cartoonist Guido Vallejos, it centred on the mischievous Barrabases team from the fictional town Happy Village. It blended humour, sportsmanship, and moral lessons with vivid depictions of teamwork, discipline, and civic responsibility. Across four editorial periods (1954–1962, 1970–1974, 1975–1980, 1989–2006), the …
Transnational Visual Parodies
Although a few historians have discussed the influence of Peronism in Chile, research has been guided mostly by diplomatic studies and political history, which, though important, are less convincing for historians interested in logics of media representation, particularly from the satirical press. This article explores visual representations of Argentina's president Juan Perón (1946-1955) in the Chilean magazine Topaze. By discussing and contextu…
Transnational sports soundscapes
The article contributes to the field of cultural studies and radio history by focusing on soccer (or fútbol ), arguably the most significant mass spectacle in twentieth-century Latin America. By exploring the trajectories, iconic voices and styles of sportscasters, the article reconstructs the masculine soundscape of soccer in Argentina and Chile between the 1920s and 1960s. Play-by-play announcers, who ranged from second-rate actors and singers …
Snapshots of Modernity
Photographic images of football are not neutral or objective records of the past. Exploring the symbolic dimensions, formal features, and context of production of five photographs taken during the 1930 World Cup, celebrated in Montevideo, Uruguay, illuminates the deep connections between sport and culture in modern Uruguay. Photographers created narrative understandings about football that had broader political and cultural meanings. Rather than …
Playing across the Andes
This article examines the central role of sports media in the discussions about national sports programmes at the peak of Latin American populism, particularly during the governments of Juan Perón in Argentina (1946-55) and Carlos Ibáñez in Chile (1952-8). By exploring sports publications such as the Argentine magazinesMundo DeportivoandEl Gráficoand the Chilean weeklyEstadio, I argue that sports media staged stories and images that were both ins…
Transnational sports soundscapes
The article contributes to the field of cultural studies and radio history by focusing on soccer (or fútbol ), arguably the most significant mass spectacle in twentieth-century Latin America. By exploring the trajectories, iconic voices and styles of sportscasters, the article reconstructs the masculine soundscape of soccer in Argentina and Chile between the 1920s and 1960s. Play-by-play announcers, who ranged from second-rate actors and singers …
Playing across the Andes
This article examines the central role of sports media in the discussions about national sports programmes at the peak of Latin American populism, particularly during the governments of Juan Perón in Argentina (1946-55) and Carlos Ibáñez in Chile (1952-8). By exploring sports publications such as the Argentine magazinesMundo DeportivoandEl Gráficoand the Chilean weeklyEstadio, I argue that sports media staged stories and images that were both ins…
Snapshots of Modernity
Photographic images of football are not neutral or objective records of the past. Exploring the symbolic dimensions, formal features, and context of production of five photographs taken during the 1930 World Cup, celebrated in Montevideo, Uruguay, illuminates the deep connections between sport and culture in modern Uruguay. Photographers created narrative understandings about football that had broader political and cultural meanings. Rather than …
Playing across the Andes
This article examines the central role of sports media in the discussions about national sports programmes at the peak of Latin American populism, particularly during the governments of Juan Perón in Argentina (1946-55) and Carlos Ibáñez in Chile (1952-8). By exploring sports publications such as the Argentine magazinesMundo DeportivoandEl Gráficoand the Chilean weeklyEstadio, I argue that sports media staged stories and images that were both ins…
Transnational sports soundscapes
The article contributes to the field of cultural studies and radio history by focusing on soccer (or fútbol ), arguably the most significant mass spectacle in twentieth-century Latin America. By exploring the trajectories, iconic voices and styles of sportscasters, the article reconstructs the masculine soundscape of soccer in Argentina and Chile between the 1920s and 1960s. Play-by-play announcers, who ranged from second-rate actors and singers …
Transnational Visual Parodies
Although a few historians have discussed the influence of Peronism in Chile, research has been guided mostly by diplomatic studies and political history, which, though important, are less convincing for historians interested in logics of media representation, particularly from the satirical press. This article explores visual representations of Argentina's president Juan Perón (1946-1955) in the Chilean magazine Topaze. By discussing and contextu…
Soccer as civic pedagogy
Barrabases was the most popular children’s soccer comic in Chile and the first of its kind in the Spanish-speaking world. Created by cartoonist Guido Vallejos, it centred on the mischievous Barrabases team from the fictional town Happy Village. It blended humour, sportsmanship, and moral lessons with vivid depictions of teamwork, discipline, and civic responsibility. Across four editorial periods (1954–1962, 1970–1974, 1975–1980, 1989–2006), the …
Politics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Music History and Culture (3 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (3 works)