The World Cup: Sport, Politics, History, and Propaganda w/ Alexander Aviña

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

This episode of Guerrilla History comes out just in time for the start of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar! In this episode, we bring back fan favorite Alexander Aviña to discuss the politics behind the World Cup, both historically and in this current edition. We hit on topics of human rights, sports washing, and propaganda in both cases. We also talk about the sport itself and the prospects on the field for this edition of the biggest prize within The Beautiful Game!

Alexander Aviña is historian at Arizona State University, and is author of the book Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrilla in the Cold War Mexican Countryside (Oxford University Press, 2014, https://alexanderavina.com/specters-of-revolution/ ). Find him on Twitter @Alexander_Avina, and listen to the episode we did with him on The Beautiful Game.

You can support Guerrilla History by joining us at patreon.com/guerrillahistory, where you will also get bonus content!

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0:00.0	You remember Den Van Boo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:14.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:27.2	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.
0:39.2	I'm your host, Henry Hockimacki,
0:44.6	joined unfortunately only by one of my usual co-hosts today. We are joined by Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario,
0:48.6	Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing? Oh, hi, Henry. I'm doing well. Hopefully you are too.
0:53.5	It's great to be with you and really looking forward to the discussion today. Oh, Henry. I'm doing well. Hopefully you are too. It's great to be with you and really
0:55.3	looking forward to the discussion today. Yeah, I'm a bit sick right now, but I know that this
0:59.9	conversation that we're going to have with one of our favorite guests is going to get me
1:04.7	back in the spirit of life generally. Unfortunately, we're not joined by our other usual co-host,
1:12.2	Brett O'Shea, who of course is host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast as he had a scheduling
1:17.2	conflict. He's currently recording something for Revolutionary Left Radio. But as Brett admitted to us,
1:23.4	this episode perhaps wouldn't be particularly well suited to him anyway, which we'll discuss in a little bit.
1:31.2	We are joined by our esteemed guest, one of our fan favorites and one of our favorites as well,
1:36.9	Professor Alexander Avina.
1:39.0	Hello, Alex.
1:39.6	It's been a while since you've been on the show.
1:41.6	How's it going, guys?
1:42.5	Thank you so much for having me back.
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