Qatar and the World Cup – Questions and Answers
A while ago, a Swedish reporter asked me to answer a few questions about Qatar and the World Cup. The segment eventually got cut, but since I had…
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John Long en la Gran Manzana
Read Time:8 Minute, 15 Second “Yo que siempre cumplo un pacto, cuando es entre caballeros. Les tenía que escribir esta canción” …
Senegalese Football’s Impossible Dream
After a sixteen-year absence, Senegal’s football team returned to the World Cup, but their sporting success belies the risks and uncertainties of an unequal global sports industry. A…
Soccer, Kinship and Migration Dreams in Cameroon
For young men in Cameroon, international soccer dreams and family relations are closely connected. International men’s football (soccer) match: Germany vs. Cameroon. Photo courtesy Wikime…
Soccer as Ethnography
Some student soccer players challenge a team of Kurdish asylum seekers to a game. How can cultural identities be studied ethnographically through playing soccer? In the summer of 2014…
Italian Football Hooligans and Little Shoes
Markus Bell In Italy, many working class men feel that the EU and the Italian government have abandoned them. In such desperate times, these men cling to each…
Unravelling Goliath
The editors of Anthropoliteia welcome Christopher Gaffney with a commentary on the current crisis at FIFA and its implications “Unfair Players” Photo by Christopher Gaffney CC BY-NC-PSA 4….