Protest and Patriotism: How Sport Spectatorship Transforms Public Discourse

• In Event: Populism, Democracy, and Nationalism

Brief Overview

This paper theorizes sport as a realm of irrational politics that can be used to manipulate public discourse. To make this claim, this paper examines how sport is used to shift debates around racial injustice to debates about patriotism.

Author

• Thomas David Bunting, Shawnee State University