Jules Boykoff is an academic, author, and former professional soccer player. He is the author of Activism and the Olympics, Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games, Landscapes of Dissent, Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States, among others. He has been called “one of the biggest names in international Olympic Games academia.” His writing has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, and he has been interviewed on the BBC and Democracy Now! He is a professor of Politics and Government at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon.
10 Ebooks by Jules Boykoff
Jules Boykoff: Power Games
The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event’s nineteenth-century origins, through the Games’ f …
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€18.99
Jules (Pacific University, USA) Boykoff: The Suppression of Dissent
Despite longstanding traditions of tolerance, inclusion, and democracy in the United States, dissident citizens and social movements have experienced significant and sustained – although often subtle …
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€58.98
Jules (Pacific University, USA) Boykoff: The Suppression of Dissent
Despite longstanding traditions of tolerance, inclusion, and democracy in the United States, dissident citizens and social movements have experienced significant and sustained – although often subtle …
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€59.13
Jules Boykoff: Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games
The Olympic Games have become the world’s greatest media and marketing event-a global celebration of exceptional athletics gilded with corporate cash. Huge corporations vie for association with the & …
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€51.54
Jules Boykoff: Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games
The Olympic Games have become the world’s greatest media and marketing event-a global celebration of exceptional athletics gilded with corporate cash. Huge corporations vie for association with the & …
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€50.81
Jules Boykoff: What Are the Olympics For?
‘Athletes first’ is a slogan the International Olympic Committee often touts, but the reality is very different, as pre-eminent Olympics expert Jules Boykoff shows in this book. While the world’s att …
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€15.99
Jules Boykoff: What Are the Olympics For?
‘Athletes first’ is a slogan the International Olympic Committee often touts, but the reality is very different, as pre-eminent Olympics expert Jules Boykoff shows in this book. While the world’s att …
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€76.51
Jules Boykoff: Activism and the Olympics
The Olympics have developed into the world’s premier sporting event. They are simultaneously a competitive exhibition and a grand display of cooperation that bring together global cultures on ski slo …
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€52.06
Russell Field: Winters of Discontent
Every four years, the Winter Olympics become a focal point for activism and resistance. But in the modern era, mere bids to host the Games have sparked fierce opposition from groups motivated by loca …
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€25.62
