Stop, Look, and Listen #7
A round-up of what I have been reading and listening to this past week.
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This post is part of the newsletter’s ‘Stop, Look, and Listen’ series, a digest of articles and podcasts that I’ve found engaging and insightful over the past week.
This week’s recommended reading and listening are on the areas of:
Sport and politics
Infrastructure
History and memory
Race and representation
American political culture
Sport and politics
The place of sport in upholding or disrupting dominant political projects, from cricket in Victorian England, through football in communist Czechoslovakia, to mixed martial arts in Russia and Ireland.
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Infrastructure
Examining the construction, maintenance, and usage of particular forms of infrastructure and the politics underpinning them.
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History and memory
The transnational representation of the past – including Ancient Greek culture, Napoleon, and the Lebanese Civil War – across a range of media and debates.
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Race and representation
Representations of race in Mexican art, American film, and British television.
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American political culture
Religiously infused moral panics, the urban-rural divide, and a predilection for violence in contemporary American politics and society.
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