Cheering the World Cup through genocide: RED CARD
Posted by Electronic Intifada on July 22, 2026
"Jules Boykoff, a political scientist at Pacific University and author of Red Card, has built on this insight across two decades of research into mega-events. His work documents how global sporting spectacles function as engines of what he calls 'celebration capitalism,”'generating an atmosphere of collective euphoria that actively discourages critical scrutiny of the institutions behind them."