Wednesday, November 2, 2016

New Book Project


1.     Beyond Soccer: International Relations and Politics as Seen through the Beautiful Game (Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming, 2016/2017).

Book description: 

Soccer provides us with a space to put into practice what the Mexican philosopher Mauricio Beuchot calls analogical hermeneutics.  That is, soccer allows us to learn through analogy about politics, political science concepts, international relations (IR) theories, and the world around us. Beyond Soccer embraces the value of theoretical diversity in IR. It uses soccer in order to examine various IR theories or approaches, without privileging any one in particular.
Beyond Soccer consists of 11 chapters devoted to the relationship between soccer, politics, and IR. Furthermore, this textbook is unique because it uses soccer players, officials, fans, or individuals connected to the game in order to teach political science concepts (e.g., discourses, geopolitics, ideology, sovereignty and the state of exception, and populism, democracy, and quasi-authoritarianism) and IR theories (including realism, postcolonialism, feminism, constructivism, and critical theory/emancipatory international relations).


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