Updated on 2026/03/07

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Undergraduate School School of Law Senior Assistant Professor
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Senior Assistant Professor
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広い意味での専門は独立以降のラテンアメリカ近現代史、狭い意味での関心は「コーノ・スール」と呼ばれる南米南部諸国における国家と社会との関係をめぐる政治・社会史です。特に、これまで20世紀初頭のチリ・アルゼンチン・ウルグアイの3カ国を事例として、近代スポーツという特異な文化実践の一群が、近代国家形成という政治的プロジェクトといかなる関係性の下で展開してきたかについて研究してきました。

現在は1910年代から30年代初めまでのバジェ=イ=オルドニェス期のウルグアイについて博士論文を執筆しています。ウェーバーを端緒とする制度主義的国家論を理論的枠組みとしつつ、非人格的な権力としての近代国家が社会とどのようにして関係性を築こうとしたのかについて、スポーツ政策という福祉政策の(マージナルだが極めて興味深い)一局面の仔細な分析を通じてアプローチする、というのがこの研究の目的の一番外側の大枠として位置付けられます。
その大枠の中で、バジスモ(バジェが率いたコロラド党内部の改革派勢力、及びその政治志向を包括的に指す)による急進的政治改革とその一部としてのスポーツの位相、二大政党間及びコロラド党内部の政治的対立、その帰結としてのバジスモの停滞、「官僚(公務員)」という社会的アクターの勃興と政治的クライアンテリズムとの結びつき、といったトピックが論じられます。

また、こうしたナショナルな力学と並行して、ウルグアイのスポーツ政策のあり方を定義付けたのが、YMCA(キリスト教青年会)とIOC(国際オリンピック委員会)という、当時世界の周縁地域でのスポーツ振興を担っていた国際団体によるグローバルな力学でした。こうした国際団体によるスポーツ振興策とウルグアイのスポーツ政策との関係について、「帝国主義」や「文明化の使命」といった北米・ヨーロッパ的な視点からではなく、むしろこの関係性における小国ウルグアイの主体性、自立性にこそ着目しながら論じていきたいと考えています。
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Degree

  • 修士(学術) ( 東京大学 )

Research Interests

  • Sports Policy

  • Political History

  • Sports History

  • South America

  • Chile

  • Argentina

  • Uruguay

  • Latin America

  • Olympics

  • YMCA

  • Global History

  • Republicanism

Research Areas

  • Life sciences / Sports science  / Sports History

  • Humanities & social sciences / Local studies  / Latin American Studies

  • Humanities & social sciences / History - Europe/America  / Latin American History

Education

  • The University of Tokyo   Graduate School of Arts and Sciences   PhD Student, Department of Area Studies (Latin American Studies)

    2013.4 - 2019.3

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  • The University of Tokyo   Graduate School of Arts and Sciences   MA in Area Studies (Latin American Studies)

    2011.4 - 2013.3

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  • The University of Tokyo   School of Arts and Sciences   Department of Latin American Studies

    2008.4 - 2011.3

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  • Universidad Católica de Chile   Exchange Student

    2009.3 - 2010.2

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  • The University of Tokyo   School of Arts and Sciences

    2006.4 - 2008.3

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Research History

  • Meiji University   School of Law   Senior Assistant Professor

    2021.4

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  • The University of Tokyo   Department of Area Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences   Associate Researcher

    2020.4 - 2021.3

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  • The University of Tokyo   Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Area Studies   Assistant Research Staff

    2018.4 - 2020.3

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  • Freie Universität Berlin   Institute for Latin American Studies   Visiting Researcher

    2017.9 - 2018.2

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  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science   Research Fellow

    2013.4 - 2016.3

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  • The University of Tokyo   College of Arts and Sciences   Part-time Lecturer

    2021.4

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  • Aoyama Gakuin University   Part-time Lecturer

    2019.4 - 2020.3

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  • Tokyo Woman's Christian University   Part-time Lecturer

    2018.4 - 2020.3

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  • Hosei University   Part-time Lecturer

    2016.4 - 2020.3

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Professional Memberships

  • Latin American Studies Association

    2018.4

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  • Japan Association of Latin American Studies

    2016.4

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  • North American Society for the Sport History

    2013.4

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  • International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport

    2012.4

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Papers

  • 二〇世紀初頭北米YMCAの世界展開とスポーツ―南米からの「文明化の使命」論再考― Invited

    松尾俊輔

    史潮   88   48 - 73   2020.12

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    Language:Japanese   Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher:歴史学会  

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  • Sports Policy, Batllismo, and the Complexity of Party Politics in Uruguay (1911-1933) Invited Reviewed

    Shunsuke Matsuo

    Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe   31 ( 2 )   92 - 110   2020.12

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    Language:English   Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher:Sverdlin Institute for Latin American History and Culture, Tel Aviv University  

    This paper analyzes how Uruguay’s sports policy was shaped and affected by the turbulent political developments of the first decades of the twentieth century. As part of the radical welfare reform implemented by the Batlle y Ordóñez regime, the newly created Comisión Nacional de Educación Física (CNEF) developed a series of advanced policies that stimulated civil sports culture during the 1910s. However, the political management of this state agency made sport into an arena for conflict and maneuvering between Batllismo and other parties. During the 1920s, political antagonism and financial crises severely jeopardized the work of the CNEF.

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  • Sport, Science, and the Social Question in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina: An Analysis of Parliamentary Discussions, 1907–1924 Reviewed

    Shunsuke Matsuo

    The International Journal of the History of Sport   2019.7

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    This research reveals an unexplored aspect of Argentina’s sport policy-making process during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Contrary to the common assumption that little attention was paid to sport by early twentieth-century politicians, several bills proposing institutional support for the promotion and organization of national sport were presented in the Argentinean legislature. In order to support these proposals, many legislators resorted to medical and physiological discourse as the most important legitimizing force. Poverty, poor hygiene, and epidemic diseases, generated by rapid modernization and urbanization, urged some turn-of-the-century Argentine political elites to attempt a degree of social intervention within the general framework of the liberal-conservative order, as a way to counteract these evils and further advance the national progress enjoyed since the nineteenth century. In this context, sport was ardently advocated by some politicians as a means to raise scientifically the physical and moral constitution of the ‘Argentinean race’.

    DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2019.1620735

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  • Sport History in South America: A Historiographical Analysis on Its Genesis, Development, and Future Reviewed

    Shunsuke Matsuo

    Latin American and Caribbean Studies   ( 26 )   18 - 28   2019.5

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  • ¿Pasión de multitudes o más allá de eso? Una observación historiográfica sobre el deporte sudamericano y una revisión de la historia del deporte chileno Reviewed

    Shunsuke Matsuo

    Sudhistoria   8   10 - 36   2014.6

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    Language:Spanish, Castilian   Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal)  

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Books

  • ウルグアイを知るための60章

    山口恵美子( Role: Contributor)

    明石書店  2022.7  ( ISBN:9784750352879

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    Total pages:327p   Language:Japanese  

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  • ラテンアメリカ文化事典

    ラテンアメリカ文化事典編集委員会( Role: Contributor「ナショナリズムとスポーツ」「政策としてのスポーツ」「オリンピック」)

    丸善出版  2021.1  ( ISBN:9784621305850

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    Total pages:xxv, 741p, 図版 [8] p   Language:Japanese  

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  • Olimpismo: The Olympic Movement in the Making of Latin America and the Caribbean

    Antonio Sotomayor, Cesar R. Torres( Role: ContributorChapter 1: Sport Policy, the YMCA, and the Early History of Olympism in Uruguay)

    The University of Arkansas Press  2020.2 

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    Language:English   Book type:Scholarly book

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  • スポーツの世界史

    石井昌幸ほか編( Role: Contributor第12章 アルゼンチン、ウルグアイ、チリ:スポーツから見る南米の政治史)

    一色出版  2018.10 

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  • よくわかるスポーツ人類学

    寒川恒夫( Role: Joint author「スポーツによる人種改良」?20世紀初頭アルゼンチンの身体・神経・精神と優生学)

    ミネルヴァ書房  2017 

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    Language:Japanese   Book type:General book, introductory book for general audience

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  • 新版 ラテンアメリカを知る事典

    大貫良夫ほか( Role: Contributor「サッカー」「テレビ」「プロレス」「ペレ」「ボクシング」「まんが」「ロデオ」「メッシ」「マラドーナ」の各項目またはその一部を執筆、加筆)

    平凡社  2013 

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Research Projects

  • Sports and the YMCA in Early 20th-century South America: Beyond the "Civilizing Mission"

    Grant number:21K00919  2021.4 - 2025.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

    Shunsuke Matsuo

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    Grant amount:\2080000 ( Direct Cost: \1600000 、 Indirect Cost:\480000 )

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  • The Sports Policy in Early 20th-Century Uruguay: A History of Political Thoughts from the Perspective of Republicanism

    2017.4 - 2018.2

    The Japan Science Society  The Sasakawa Scientific Research Grant 

    Shunsuke Matsuo

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  • The Early History of Olympism in Uruguay (1911-1924): A National-Global Perspective

    2017.1 - 2017.12

    The Olympic Studies Centre, the International Olympic Committee  PhD Students Research Grant Programme 

    Shunsuke Matsuo

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    Grant amount:\880000 ( Direct Cost: \880000 )

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  • A Historical Study on the Development of Modern Sports in Early 20th-Century Southern Cone Countries

    2013.4 - 2016.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Research Fellow 

    Shunsuke Matsuo

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    Authorship:Principal investigator  Grant type:Competitive

    Grant amount:\3000000 ( Direct Cost: \3000000 )

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Teaching Experience

  • Latin American Culture

    2021.4 Institution:Meiji University

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  • スペイン語(初級)

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  • スペイン語(中級)

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Social Activities

  • 角川まんが学習シリーズ 世界の歴史 制作協力

    Role(s): Advisor

    KADOKAWA  2016.11 - 2021.2

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    Audience: Schoolchildren, Junior students, High school students, Teachers, General

    Type:Other

    南北アメリカ史関連の章を中心に、構成、シナリオ執筆、校閲などの制作協力を行った。

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