(Re)Producing military mythology at the Canada Army Run
Year: 2023

This thesis offers a novel exploration of militarism in amateur sport. I analyze the 2019 Canada Army Run - an annual road race organized and hosted by the Canadian Armed Forces - to explore how embodied interaction with the event's pro-military messaging affects participants' political orientation to the Canadian military. I draw on ethnographic data gathered while running in the 5k race as well as 40 semi-structured qualitative interviews with race participants and three interviews with event