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Nov 25, 2024
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SPLT 063 - (CC, LT) On Soccer and Latin AmericaSemester Hours: 3
Soccer is a game, a professional sport, a multi-million dollar industry, a space for global utopias, and a sinister ideology-reinforcing machine. It’s a battlefield for all cultural wars and an intense stage in all gender inclusion discussions. It’s a fabric in which race, ethnicity, and economic power intersect in live television and a factory of dispensable heroes and myths; in Argentina, it’s even a religion. In this course, we will review the cultural production surrounding the sport in the Latin American orb ––a true soccer powerhouse–, and put it at play with the framework of a series of ideas fundamental to contemporary thinking. We will read Latin American fiction and non-fiction, learn about popular music, and review films related to the sport from a critical humanist point of view.
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