Preliminary topic and list of three secondary and three primary sources
Topic Statement:
I am interested in investigating the role that pickup soccer plays in the formation of community and notions of identity amongst immigrant players in Riverside Park in New York City. By utilizing the participant-observation method of ethnographic research, I aim to create a short documentary film that explores these aforementioned themes. I will spend the summer playing soccer and building relationships with members of the community. Based on what I have already gleaned from my limited, prior exposure to this group, I postulate that besides playing for fun, pickup soccer serves as both a method of preserving a notion of national identity, while simultaneously acting as a form of stress relief from the pressures of urban life.
Sources:
Expanded Bibliography:
Print:
– Foer, Franklin. How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization. HarperCollins. 2004.
– Hornby, Nick. Fever Pitch. Gollancz. 1992.
-Pink, Sarah. Doing Visual Ethnography: Images, Media, and Representation in Research. Thousand Oaks. 2001.
– Nash, June C. Practicing Ethnography in a Globalizing World: an Anthropological Odyssey. AltaMira Press. 2007.
– O’Reilly, Karen. Ethnographic Methods. Routledge, 2005.
– Crawford, Peter Ian, Turton, David. Film as Ethnography. St. Martin’s Press. 1992.
– Gwendolyn Oxenham. Finding the Game: Three Years, Twenty-Five Countries, and the search for Pickup Soccer. St. Martin’s Press. 2012.
– Giulianotti, Richard, Bonney, Norman, and Hepworth, Mike. Football, Violence, and Social Identity. Routledge. 1994.
-Crosson, Seán. Sport and Film. Routledge. 2013.
-Finn, Gerry; Giulianotti, Richard. Football Culture: Local Conflicts, Global Visions. Taylor and Francis. 2013.
-Bramham, Peter; Wagg, Stephen. Sport, Leisure, and Culture in the Postmodern City. Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 2009.
– Guzmán, Betsy, and Diaz McConnell, Eileen, “The Hispanic Population: 1990-2000 Growth and Change” Population Research and Policy Review, Vol. 21, No. ½. Springer. April 2002. 109-128.
-Hempstead, Katherine. “Immigration and Native Migration in New York City, 1985-1990.” Population Research and Policy Review, Vol. 22, No. 4. Springer. August 2003. 333-349.
-Branton, Regina P., and Dunaway, Johanna. “Spatial Proximity to the U.S.-Mexico Border and Newspaper Coverage of Immigration Issues” Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 62, No. 2. Sage Publications, Inc. June 2009. 289-302.
-Keogan, Kevin. “A Sense of Place: The Politics of Immigration and the Symbolic Construction of Identity in Southern California and the New York Metropolitan Area.” Sociological Forum, Vol. 17, No.2. Springer. June 2002. 223-253.
– Espenshade, Thomas J., and Calhoun, Charles A. “An Analysis of Public Opinion toward Undocumented Immigration.” Population Research and Policy Review, Vol. 12, No. 3. Springer. 1993. 189-224.
-Ha, Shange E. “The Consequences of Multiracial Contexts on Public Attitudes toward Immigration.” Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 63, No. 1. Sage Publications, Inc. March 2010. 29-42.
-Lewellen, Ted C. The Anthropology of Globalization: Cultural Anthropology Enters the 21st Century. Bergin & Garvey. 2002. 89-120.
Film:
– Hoop Dreams. Dir. Steve James. Perf. William Gates and Arthur Agee. Netflix. Kartemquin Films. 1994.
– In the Hands of the Gods. Dir. Ben Turner and Gabe Turner. Lionsgate. 2007.
– Once in a Lifetime. Dir. Paul Crowder and Jon Dower. Perf. Matt Dillon, Pele. Miramax. 2006.
-Pelada. Cont. Luke Boughen. 2010.
-Sugar. Dir. Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. HBO Films. 2008.
– Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait. Dir. Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno. Perf. Zinedine Zidane. DVD. Universal International. 2006.
Web:
– Eger, Isaac. “‘I Got Next’: Exploring New York Through Pickup Basketball”. The New York Times. (July 11, 2012) http://nyti.ms/LajU1a
– Aull Davies, Charlotte. Reflexive Ethnography [electronic resource] : A Guide to Researching Selves and Others. Taylor and Francis. 2012.