Search Results for football

...Carlos A. Forment Duke University Press 2007 The Democratic Dribbler: Football Clubs, Neoliberal Globalization, and Buenos Aires’ Municipal Election of 2003...

..., banquet halls, a soccer stadium, and a television station. Current portrayals of urban design offer dystopian views of the field’s “end” or emphasize informal, reactive processes. Instead, urban design from below occurs through action and accumulation: Syriac projects have altered the physical shape...

...Boubacar Touré Mandémory © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Boubacar Touré Mandémory , a self-taught photographer,represents a contemporary movement in Africa to reject ethnographic-realist representations of the continent. His work includes 1998 coverage of the African Football...

... a Independência Total de Angola) offi cials staying there during peace negotiations. The cease-fi re is over, and the civil war resumes. January 15, 2000. Leader of the Serbian “Tigers” paramilitary, head of the Obilic football club, and indicted war criminal Zeljko Raznatovic, aka “Arkan,” is shot...

... tourna- ment in Oregon and an episode of soccer violence in England. This is not accounted for by the profusion of US (though not English) tourists in Bangkok. Years ago, Mpondah remembers, the publisher of the Fiji Sun used to complain about the flood of agency re- ports of English soccer...

... toward me to share a confidence. “As I’m sure you can tell,” he grinned, “I don’t like soccer. But some excellent pictures may be had of the fans.” Again he took charge of explaining his “culture” to the anthropologist: soccer, he said, is much more popular in the south, but “here” not so much...

... tracks this shift via Porteños’ football club affiliations and fandom, one of the most dynamic and contested cultural spaces within civil society not only in Bue- nos Aires but in most of Argentina. At one level, a vibrant cultural space within...

... makes elaborate use of a football metaphor to express a dream about “a meaningful Presidential campaign”: “As Democratic Quarterbacks,” she writes, “we yearned to see Dukakis break out of the campaign pack and run down the civic field, as a graceful political linebacker, shouting and sig...

... paraphernalia. “Team Mickey” sells sports-related cloth- ing and equipment amid punching bags, soccer nets, Hank Aaron and Joe Louis memorabilia, and tinted panoramas of football grandstands. A painted track cir- cles the floor and guides shoppers on their run around the Team Mickey boutique...

... of smaller kids took place. And they were sites of a special kind of sport played only by streetwise males in the township. The use of tennis balls to perform tricks associated with soccer was significant in this regard. One needed special footwear to perform them, like the Converse All Star takkies...

... not named Tyson or Mayweather. Fearsome to behold but asthmatic (which had helped keep him from being snapped up by football), and only intermittently committed to serious training, Briggs was standing all alone in the path of the great post – Cold War outpouring of Slavic talent. That was my story...

... of Deliberation: Qa¯t Chews as Public Spheres in Yemen 59 Lisa Wedeen The Democratic Dribbler: Football Clubs, Neoliberal Globalization, and Buenos Aires’ Municipal Election of 2003 85 Carlos A. Forment Cultures of Democracy and Citizen Efficacy 117 Charles Taylor Nationalism and Cultures...

... of post­ colonial India; Jean Comaroff on the hazards of applying Agamben and his notion of bare life to the politics of HIV/AIDS; Carlos Forment examines the relation- ship between football clubs and the 2003 municipal elections in Buenos Aires; Lisa Wedeen examines qa¯t chew gatherings as a form...

... France: Envoi Figure 3  Photograph by Christopher Moore for Democracy in Paris (Sol Productions and Nomadic Wax 2007) Past the call box and down a poorly lit hall (see figs. 4 and 5), against a backdrop of blue elephant wallpaper, an interior weds multiple cultures: global football (Inter...

... was staffed by austere and colorless generals; the business- men whom they supported as a conservative force carried out most of the exhibition of vulgarity. Television ownership became near-universal in Latin America between 1960 and 1980, and televised soccer, soap opera, and news became...

... institutionalization were designed to draw youth close to the party in power, and relied heavily on the Ministry of Youth and Sports with its exclusive preoccupation with advanced athletic competition and football (soccer). The failure...

...) negotiations, among unknown parties with undisclosed private agen- das, ended up being trumpeted as a “national agreement.” The announcement was made by an assorted collection of three hundred celebrities — football players, movie stars, pop singers, writers, Catholic bishops — who were led by the rich...

... strug- gling in vain to imitate the accent of Ringo Starr, and later playing clumsy street football with the Music Machine, who practiced loudly down the street in a one- car stucco garage, unknown then to be the missing link between the British Sound and the future L.A. underground rock...

... screening Nigerian films, and the massive proliferation of “viewing centers,” neighborhood video parlors that, in northern Nigeria, alternate screening films with showing soccer games. Both of these new modes for distributing and exhibiting cinema have roots in the classic dispositif of cinema common all...

... criminal constitutes an extraordinary event, and in the zone of Santiago Segundo, the source of the ethnographic data pre- sented in this article, a lynching took place in January 2007, when a middle-­aged man accused of theft was beaten and hanged by his feet from the crossbar of a soccer goal...