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Book Review – Gaming The World
I have to say that based on the title, I had high expectations for Andrei Markovits and Lars Rensmann‘s Gaming The World: How Sports are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture. Sadly, I was...
View Article“Doing” Globalization – Football Transfer Networks
Tony Karon on football and globalization and how the European championship leagues “belong” to Africa in the sense that African audiences follow them assiduously, spot the jerseys of their favorite...
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The Pleasure Periphery – Rules Are for The Natives
Via Denis Colombi, every year, we have to endure coverage of the Paris – Dakar (which is no longer from Paris to Dakar but never mind), where wealthy white men (and such races are gendered phenomena)...
View ArticleThe Revolution Will Not Be Facebooked/Twittered… It Will Be Soccered (Ok, I’m...
Dave Zirin: “Over the decades that have marked the tenure of Egypt’s “President for Life” Hosni Mubarak, there has been one consistent nexus for anger, organization, and practical experience in the...
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Book Review – Traȋtres A La Nation
Stephane Béaud’s Traîtres À La Nation – Un Autre Regard Sur La Grève Des Bleus en Afrique du Sud (en collaboration avec Philippe Guimard) is perfect and great example of public sociology. It very...
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Racism By Any Other Name – Whitewashing Les Bleux
Holy !@#$. Seriously. I guess this is the next stage in the controversy that followed the World Cup fiasco (which was discussed here). The political fall-out is this: it’s the Blacks and the Arabs that...
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Men Making Decisions About Women – A Visual
So, first, we had this: And now, we have this (H/T: Isabelle Germain on Twitter): The context for this last one is this: “The IFAB agreed to unanimously approve – temporarily during a trial period –...
View ArticleGirls Can’t Be As Good As Boys!
So, first, we had the whole Caster Semenya saga: a female athlete who is really good… so good indeed that it is suspicious. Is she really a woman? Let’s test. Ok, she is. But she is not feminine...
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Book Review – Planet Sport
I have to confess that I found Kath Woordward‘s Planet Sport to be a little mess of a book. As I have mentioned before, I am always on the lookout for short books that might make for some interesting...
View ArticleThe Visual Du Jour – GOOOOOOAAAAL
I love soccer, or as we Europeans call it, football. I also like network visualizations. So, how can I not love this network visualization of Ballon D’Or votes. If you don’t know what the Ballon D’Or...
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