Green is the Colour: Saskatchewan, Political Despair, and the Affective Politics of the Rider Nation

RT @drmarcspooner: @ProfSmithSask @ProfSmithSask & @simon_enoch You mind find this aspect good for the intro? Green is the Colour: Saskat…

@ProfSmithSask @ProfSmithSask & @simon_enoch You mind find this aspect good for the intro? Green is the Colour: Saskatchewan, Political Despair, and the Affective Politics of the Rider Nation https://t.co/9zd3PBjJRm

I wrote about "our kids our leaving" despair in Sask here: https://t.co/pUyPjQnUYA. That it pops up in Alberta makes me think about about interprovincial migration and "affective economies," (Ahmed 2004 b/c of course it's Sara Ahmed)

I'll also say that the political identity of the Rider Nation (https://t.co/9v4eAcdGbY!) is especially gross when we think about how it's centred upon the practice of watching precariously employed, poorly paid, and mostly Black players play for our entert