Weekly Filet #277: What football can tell us about globalisation. And more.
1. Globalization and goals: does soccer show the way? (Review of International Political Economy, PDF)
A very interesting adademic paper from 2005 that has resurfaced in the context of the World Cup: How free circulation of labour in football has improved the game overall, increased inequality between clubs, but on the other hand reduced the gap in strength between national teams – and what all of this tell us about globalisation.
2. How to Look Away (The Atlantic)
The best piece I've read all week on the USA's infamous treatment of immigrant children. On photographs as «a grammar and an ethics of seeing» and how Trump's allies are «attempting to destabilize not just the facts on the ground, but also another kind of truth: The emotions most humans will feel.»
3. My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me (The New York Times)
If you read «You May Want to Marry My Husband» back then, you'll remember it. This is her widower, telling his story, one year after his wife's death.
4. Phantom Islands
For map nerds and explorers: an interactive map of islands that have been described and mapped, but that may never have existed in the first place.
5. What Makes People the Most Happy? (Flowing Data)
What made you happy in the past 24 hours? The answers of 100 000 people, categorised and charted. Made me happy.