After Alves picks up a banana thrown at him at eats it (watch it here)
sparking a social media campaign with the slogan “We are all monkeys.” Unbeknownst to Alves, teammate Neymar had been planning such a campaign already as a response to his experiences of racism in the stadiums.
"Weber's study undertakes a much-needed comprehensive investigation of the contemporary 'regime of gender violence,' that is, the key role violence has played in defining the position of Muslims in the German public sphere (in the larger European context). Through nuanced theorizing as well as careful historical contextualization, Weber develops an intersectional framework for analyzing gendered violence in a way that does not reinforce racialized discourses of cultural and/or religious difference." [more...]
Palgrave Macmillan, January 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-00708-7, ISBN10: 1-137-00708-7
252 pages.