Scuffed | U.S. soccer, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

#226: The dual national dilemma with political scientist José Marichal

Episode Summary

Marichal, a Cuban-American professor of political science at California Lutheran University, joins to talk about recognition, mis-recognition, identity, and some of the deeper themes underneath the Mexican-American dual national's choice about which national soccer team to play for. No hard conclusions drawn, just some new (for me, Belz) ways to think about the issue.

Episode Notes

Marichal, a Cuban-American professor of political science at California Lutheran University, joins to talk about recognition, mis-recognition, identity, and some of the deeper themes underneath the Mexican-American dual national's choice about which national soccer team to play for. No hard conclusions drawn, just some new (for me, Belz) ways to think about the issue.

Reading list:

David Ochoa’s path to Mexico:
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/posts/david-ochoa-mexico-national-team-soccer

Araujo QA with the Athletic: https://theathletic.com/2869439/2021/10/05/qa-julian-araujo-on-why-he-chose-to-represent-mexico-instead-of-the-usmnt/

Charles Taylor, “The Politics of Recognition”:
https://www.amherst.edu/system/files/media/1417/Taylor%252C%2520Politics%2520of%2520Recognition.pdf

Nationalism paper:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327129541_Nationalism

The Hispanic Challenge, Samuel Huntington
https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/28/the-hispanic-challenge/

Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Cosmopolitan Patriotism”
http://www.ling.uqam.ca/atonet/soc8245/Appiah.%20Cosmopolitanism%20compatriots.pdf