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Article discusses cultural politics, national identity, and racism in English sport, highlighting debates around belonging.
This article outlines how sport has become a significant site for debates around national identity and belonging. Sport is not just a form of popular entertainment and physical achievement but also a domain for the exercise of power and therefore a site of political contestation. Due to the UK's internal political tensions and external socioeconomic conditions, English nationalism has emerged as a distinct political project, with football an important conduit for these discussions. Using the women's 2025 and the men's 2020 UEFA football championships, I discuss the politics of national representation and the reproduction of racism in the context of English society and the possibilities and limitations of sport as a form of cultural politics.
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