The Weekly Round-up w/ BAR's Danny Haiphong & Prof. Derek Silva of "The End of Sport" Podcast

Follow Danny Haiphong on Twitter: @SpiritofHo

Danny Haiphong is a socialist activist, writer, and political analyst. For the last six years, Haiphong has been a weekly contributor to Black Agenda Report, and now serves as co-editor along with Margaret Kimberly.

Danny's book co-authored with Roberto Sirvent is titled: "American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News--From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror." It is a must read for any U.S. progressive who recognizes U.S. imperialism as the fundamental contradiction keeping all these other systems of oppression in place and plowing ahead with barbaric and deadly sanctions against nations of the Global South that dare challenge U.S. neoliberal hegemony, and its most potent ideological weapon, anti-Communism.

On top of all of that, Danny is a former H.S. basketball star in his hometown of Cambridge, Massachusetts, attending the same high school as legends such as Patrick Ewing and the late great Len Bias. Needless to say, when he isn't writing and organizing against U.S. imperialism and advocating for socialism rooted in international solidarity, you can probably catch him watching his beloved Boston Celtics.

Derek Silva is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at King's University College at Western University.

Here's his bio in his own words:

I co-host a podcast called ​The End of Sport , which you can find on iTunes, Google Play Music, and Spotify, or simply click the link below for a sneak peek. I teach a number of courses in sociology and criminology, including introductory sociology and criminology, quantitative and qualitative research methods, sociology of sport, sociology of catastrophe, critical security studies, surveillance, and sociology of terrorism.

My areas of interest include critical sociology and criminology, sport, punishment, terrorism and ‘radicalization’ studies. Broadly speaking, my research focuses on how we make sense of a variety of social issues and the interventions we craft to alleviate associated harm. More specifically, I have written on Canadian and international counter-radicalization programs, the diffusion of transnational counter-terrorism policing, practices of 'scouting' high school football athletes, and constructions of national identity in response to tragedy, and cultural understandings of crime and punishment in sport. My work can be found in Punishment and Society, Crime, Media, Culture, Sociology of Sport Journal, Sociological Forum, Race & Class, Educational Gerontology, TIME, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Guardian, The Daily Beast and ​Jacobin Magazine.

In addition to my scholarship, I serve on the editorial board of the Sociology of Sport Journal, as OCUFA Director on King's University College Faculty Association, and am co-editor of Emerald's Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance book series.

​I am currently working on two SSHRC-funded projects. The first is entitled "How radicalization has become the dominant framework for understanding terrorism." This project is funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2019-2021) and traces the emergence of radicalization as the primary framework for understanding transitions toward political violence. The second, funded by a SSHRC Partnership Engage COVID-19 Initiative Grant (2020-21) looks at how participants in serious leisure activities make sense of the loss of sport during COVID-19 lockdown and how they perceive risk as they return to activity during and after the pandemic.


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