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Career Talk airs on KUST
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April information sessions on
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Interesting Articles
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History 1100: Soccer
in Contemporary Politics and Society
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Sustainability
contest announced
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Packing to go home
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Does soccer
(really) explain the world?
Come find out!
History 1100 Soccer in
Contemporary World Politics and Society: “The Beautiful Game” in the
Age of Globalization
Summer Term II: July 7-31 2008 4:30-6:20pm
Hamline Plan: I, S, G, O
Course Description:
This course explores contemporary world politics and society through
the lens of international soccer. Soccer (or football as it is known
outside of the U.S.) is the world’s most popular sport. It is the
most widely watched and played game on earth, and it also holds the
distinction of being the only sport to have ignited and ended armed
clashes. For these reasons we will use soccer to examine different
types of internal and external conflicts since 1945. The class is
particularly interested in how various regimes have employed the
sport to political ends. In addition, we will draw on soccer to
analyze problems of gender, race, religion, and national identity.
In order to investigate these issues we will look at case studies
from across the globe, including, among others, Brazil, Cameroon,
China, El Salvador, Iran, Scotland, and South Africa. Finally, the
class concludes by asking to what extent soccer has fueled or
ameliorated domestic and international tensions around the world.
Required Texts:
Bill Bulford, Amongst the Thugs (New York: Vintage, 1993)
Franklin Foer, How Soccer Explains the World: An [unlikely] theory
of globalization (New York: Harper Collins, 2004)
Simon Kuper, Soccer Against the Enemy: How the world’s most popular
sport starts and fuels revolutions and keeps dictators in power (New
York: Nation Books, 2006)
Keith Robbins, The World Since 1945: A Concise History (New York:
Oxford University Press, 2002)
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