Tag: Joan Pedro-Carañana

Brothers Iñaki and Nico Williams play football for Athletic Club de Bilbao in Spain. With African roots—their parents migrated from Ghana—and a Basque-Navarrese upbringing, they symbolize a new era in the ideology of the club and the region. Although the brothers were brought up in the region and hence qualify, they break the mould in racial terms, incarnating a cultural hybridization that redefines Basque identity. In this feature article, Toby Miller, Joan Pedro-Carañana and Israel V. Márquez present the historical background to this development and its consequences for the future.

The World Cup, as Jonathan Wilson puts it in The Guardian, is “simultaneously the greatest sporting festival on the planet, and a tawdry commercial machine run at enormous human and environmental cost for the benefit of torturers, murderers, exploiters and the unquenchably greedy” – which pretty much sums up the facts that Toby Miller and Joan Pedro-Carañana present in their piece, previously published only in Spanish and Portuguese, leading to the inevitable conclusion: Abolish the World Cup!