FSF met once again on March 31st to discuss Chris Brown’s paper, “Envisioning the City through Soccer in the Brazilian Amazon, 1914-2014.” Chris, a longtime FSF member and PhD Candidate in Latin American History at Emory University, shared with the group his fresh research funded by a FIFA João Havelange Fellowship. Our discussion touched on many topics including stadium construction, gendered conceptions of modernity and progress, the clubs of Manaus, and comparisons to other cities in Latin America.
Participants included: Brenda Elsey, Danyel Reiche, David Kilpatrick, George Kioussis, Jennifer Schaefer, Matt Hawkins, Tarminder Kaur, Peter Alegi, and Alex Galarza.
Audio of the conversation can be found here. (For educational/personal use only.)
