Soccer, Globalization, and Urban Life

Harvard FAS

What can we learn about the modern world through the prism of soccer? The game evolved as globalization intensified and cities boomed. In this seminar, we will explore historical, cultural, political, and aesthetic dimensions of this relationship. Soccer can both exemplify and contradict broader patterns of globalization. Likewise, stadiums and playing fields can be understood as microcosms of the city, or spaces of exception within it. Tracing histories and literatures tied to the game, we…