April 6, 2021
Forum Podcast “Beautiful game, troubling results?” – with Leah Rosenzweig and Yang-Yang Zhou
Guests:
Leah Rosenzweig, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University
Yang-Yang Zhou, Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia
In this episode, Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr. Leah Rosenzweig of Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Assistant Professor Dr. Yang-Yang Zhou of the Department of Political Science at the University of British Colombia discuss their recent paper with Forum Affiliate Morgan Wack. The paper, Team and Nation: Sports, Nationalism, and Attitudes Toward Refugees, was recently published in the Journal of Comparative Political Studies. In addition to a discussion about the paper, which examines the impact of an Africa Cup of Nations football match between Kenya and Tanzania on nationalist attitudes and perceptions of refugees, Leah and Yang-Yang detail policy implications, the politics of refugees and sport, and their ongoing work in the region.
Leah’s mentioned and upcoming work:
Leah’s recently published applied paper using Facebook to recruit samples in Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria [here]
Leah’s methods working paper discussing the use of Facebook to recruit samples in the global south [here]
An overview of Leah’s upcoming book on voting in Tanzania and Uganda [here]
Yang-Yang’s mentioned and upcoming work:
Recent publication (with Evan Lieberman) on an experiment aimed at increasing citizen engagement with local governance [here]
Working paper examining how the presence of refugees can change attitudes toward citizenship in sub-Saharan Africa [here]
An overview of Yang-Yang’s ongoing book project entitled Rejecting Coethnicity: the Politics of Migrant Exclusion by Minority Citizens [here]
Other projects and papers mentioned in this episode:
Adida, Lo, and Platas: Perspective taking can promote short-term inclusionary behavior toward Syrian refugees [here]
Alrababa’h et al.: Can exposure to celebrities reduce prejudice? The effect of Mohamed Salah on Islamophobic behaviors and attitudes? [here]
Benedict Anderson: Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism [here]
Andrew Bertoli: Nationalism and conflict: Lessons from international sports [here]
Depetris-Chauvin, E., Durante, R., & Campante, F: Building nations through shared experiences: Evidence from African football [here]
Dawes, C. & Rubenson, D.: For club or country? An experiment testing group identity using football supporter data [here]
Amanda Robinson: National versus ethnic identification in Africa: Modernization, colonial legacy, and the origins of territorial nationalism [here]
Mousa, S.: Building social cohesion between Christians and Muslims through soccer in post-ISIS Iraq [here]
Wimmer, A.: Nationalist exclusion and ethnic conflict: Shadows of modernity [here]
Lowe, M.: Types of contact: A field experiment on collaborative and adversarial caste integration. American Economic Review [here]
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