Following the Ball: The Migration of African Soccer Players across the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1949–1975 (Review article)

TY - JOUR

T1 - Following the Ball: The Migration of African Soccer Players across the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1949–1975 (Review article)

AU - Darby, Paul

N1 - Agergaard S and Ungruhe C (2016) Ambivalent precarity: career trajectories and temporalities in highly skilled sports labour. Anthropology of Work Review37(2): 67-78. https://doi.org/10.1111/awr.12096 Darby P (2002) Africa, football and FIFA: politics, colonialism and resistance. London and New York: Frank Cass. Darby P (2007) African football labour migration to Portugal: colonial and neo-colonial resource. Soccer and Society 8 (4): 495-509. https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970701440774

PY - 2018/12/12

Y1 - 2018/12/12

N2 - In Following the Ball, Todd Cleveland meticulously unpacks the history of African soccer players’ migratory journeys across the Portuguese colonial empire. While this book makes an invaluable contribution to what is a nascent body of literature on the migration of African football players, it also represents a telling addition to our understanding of the encounters between coloniser and colonised and how these played out specifically within the Portuguese colonial project.

AB - In Following the Ball, Todd Cleveland meticulously unpacks the history of African soccer players’ migratory journeys across the Portuguese colonial empire. While this book makes an invaluable contribution to what is a nascent body of literature on the migration of African football players, it also represents a telling addition to our understanding of the encounters between coloniser and colonised and how these played out specifically within the Portuguese colonial project.

U2 - 10.18820/24150479/aa50i2.8

DO - 10.18820/24150479/aa50i2.8

M3 - Article

SP - 139

EP - 144

JO - Acta Academica

T2 - Acta Academica

JF - Acta Academica

SN - 0587-2405

ER -