Avant ce cours, je n’aurais pas dit avec certitude absolue que je suis féministe. « Féministe », c’est un terme chargé. Par ailleurs, j’étais toujours très consciente du privilège dont je bénéficiais dans ma vie. Cette conscience m’avait causé à toujours hésiter avant de répondre à la question, « t’es féministe ? » parce que je sentais que je n’étais… Read More »
Todos los años, el Trofeo Zamora, el premio al “mejor” portero del año de la Liga Santander, es otorgado por el diario deportivo Marca al portero que menos goles ha recibido (siempre y cuando haya jugado más de 28 partidos con 60 minutos jugados en cada uno). ¿Pero, acaso es justo este indicador para decidir… Read More »
Le foot, c’est le beau jeu. Il est caractérisé par la passion, la créativité, la technique, et l’imagination, des joueurs ainsi que des supporteurs. Comme nous avons discuté en classe, ce sport est presque une pièce de théâtre, souvent un drame mais de temps en temps une comédie. Egalement, chaque saison, même chaque match, peut… Read More »
In the chapter “Welcome to Russia” from Gwendolyn Oxenham’s book Under the Lights and in the Dark: Untold Stories of Women’s Soccer, she reinforces soccer’s ability to lift a player and their family out of the depth of depravity, a narrative our class has explored throughout the semester. Omolyn Davis, a Jamaica and Dani Foxhoven’s… Read More »
In the chapter “Welcome to Russia” from Gwendolyn Oxenham’s book Under the Lights and in the Dark: Untold Stories of Women’s Soccer, she reinforces soccer’s ability to lift a player and their family out of the depth of depravity, a narrative our class has explored throughout the semester. Omolyn Davis, a Jamaica and Dani Foxhoven’s… Read More »
Chapter Three: “Making Nations in Late Colonial Africa, 1940s—1964” “Stadiums and clubhouses became areas in which workers, intellectuals, business owners, and the unemployed challenged colonial power and expressed a shared commitment to racial equality and self-determination. Football constructed a fragile sense of nationhood in political entities arbitrarily created by colonial powers and fueled Africa’s broader… Read More »
C’est la Coupe du monde, C’est l’Euro, la Copa America, la CAN C’est le Premier League, la Bundesligua, la Serie A, la Ligue 1, la Ligua C’est la MLS, la PSL, la CSL. Le football c’est le jeu entre ses amis, pieds nus dans la poussière, parfois sans « propre ballon.» C’est la cause de… Read More »
To think of football as just as a game is to ignore not only its relationship to national identities, but also its instrumental role in forging these identities. In his book Fútbol!: Why Soccer Matters in Latin America, Joshua Nadel sheds valuable light on this role by examining the impact of football in Argentina, Honduras,… Read More »
Until 2014, the story of Robbie Rogers—an American professional soccer player who plays for the LA Galaxy in Major League Soccer—had been told by the media. In his 2014 autobiography Coming Out to Play, Rogers fills the gaps left in the media’s shorthand narrative of his life as the first openly gay athlete to play… Read More »
In his book The Game of Our Lives, David Goldblatt expertly captures the sweeping economic, political, and social changes of British society in the post-Thatcher era through his analysis of football. The sheer scale of football and its central place in British cultural life renders the sport a ripe medium for exploring Britain’s changing character.… Read More »
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