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Work in Progress
Please feel free to email me (at Jakewojtow@gmail.com) if you'd like to discuss (or read, if I have a full draft) the below pieces. Some abstracts are brief and some titles are changed to allow for anonymous review.
Sport and Community - Oxford Handbook of the Ethics of Sport
Sport is sometimes said to have the ability to bring people of the same nation closer together by creating a sense of community and shared purpose. This chapter considers the ethical issues related to the potential of sports as a means of community-building. Is employing sports to foster a sense of community always morally benign? If not, what principled reasons could be provided for thinking of this as sometimes morally problematic?

A review of Paddy McQueen's Regret - Ethics
I am in the process of reviewing Paddy McQueen's recent book on Regret


Redemption​
Sportspeople do bad things, and I have argued that fans should sometimes walk away from their clubs due to players misbehaving - or, at the least, they should criticise the players (and the club) and alter how they engage with them. But at what point should players be welcomed back into the club? What does it mean to be redeemed morally? And how does sporting redemption differ from this? Further, what sort of redemption is relevant for players who have let down fans, given that the core problem is not just moral, nor sporting, but concerns how the players represent their club. â€‹

Trying and Succeeding in Sport
How can a proper understanding of fallibility provide us with a metaphysics of failure in sport? What does this tell us about trying and succeeding?

Fan Tourism 

With Alfred Archer
A piece on the ethics of fan tourism, setting out why a natural critique of it fails and advocating for a different line of criticism. ​

Fans and Fanatics
With Kyle Fruh and Alfred Archer

What makes fandom morally troubling? What does this have to do with sportswashing? And can be it be good to be a fanatic?
 
 
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