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American academic and soccer player
Jules Boykoff (born September 11, 1970) is an American academic, author, and former professional
soccer player. His research focuses on the politics of the
Olympic Games , social movements, the suppression of dissent, and the role of the mass media in US politics, especially regarding coverage of
climate change issues . Boykoff has written six books on the Olympic Games.
Life and work
Soccer career
At the age of 19, he played for the
United States men's national under-23 soccer team in the
1990
Toulon Tournament .
[1] Boykoff played two years for the University of Wisconsin before crossing to the
University of Portland . After graduating he was drafted in 1993 by
indoor soccer team
Portland Pride of the now folded
Continental Indoor Soccer League . He also played in the now defunct
National Professional Soccer League with team
Milwaukee Wave . In all he played four seasons of indoor professional soccer.
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Academic career
Boykoff is a professor of Politics and Government at
Pacific University , Oregon.
[5] He was also a visiting professor at
Whitman College in
Walla Walla, Washington during the 2004–05 school year.
[6] Topics taught by Boykoff include US politics, the politics of surveillance, mass-media and politics, and the politics of literature and poetry.
[7] In November 2006, he spoke at the
United Nations Climate Change Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, "COP 12".
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[9] In
An Inconvenient Truth ,
Al Gore mentioned work Boykoff co-authored with his brother Maxwell Boykoff (Oxford University, Environmental Change Institute) on
US media coverage of global warming .
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Boykoff is also co-editor of The Tangent , a politics and art
zine , and runs
The Tangent Reading Series in Portland, Oregon.
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Critique of the Olympic Games
Boykoff lived in London in the lead-up to and during the
2012 Summer Olympics and in Rio de Janeiro as a
Fulbright scholar during preparations for the
2016 Summer Olympics .
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In July 2019 he interviewed two women in Tokyo who were displaced by the
1964 Summer Olympics and the
2020 Summer Olympics .
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Bibliography
Books
Nonfiction
The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social Movements , Routledge, 2006,
ISBN
978-0415978101
Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States , AK Press, 2007,
ISBN
978-1904859598
Jules Boykoff; Kaia Sand (2008), Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry & Public Space , Palm Press,
ISBN
978-0978926243
Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games , Routledge, 2013,
ISBN
9780415821971
Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London , Rutgers University Press, 2014,
ISBN
978-0813562018
Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics , Verso Books, 2016,
ISBN
9781784780722
NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beyond , Fernwood Publishing, 2020,
ISBN
9781773632766
The 1936 Berlin Olympics: Race, Power, and Sportswashing , Common Ground Research Networks, 2023,
ISBN
9781957792248
What Are the Olympics For? , Bristol University Press, March 26, 2024,
ISBN
9781529230284
Poetry
Once Upon a Neoliberal Rocket Badge : Edge Books, 2006. I ISBN 978-1890311216
The Slow Motion Underneath (Hot Dream) , collaboration with
Jim Dine : Steidl, 2009. I ISBN 9783865216939
Hegemonic Love Potion : Factory School, 2009. I ISBN 978-1600010620
Fireworks : Tinfish Press, 2018. I ISBN 978-0998743875
References
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"18ème Festival Foot "Espoirs" " . festival-foot-espoirs.com. Archived from
the original on 13 July 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2015 .
^ Dodge, Steve (Spring 2007).
"Q & A with Jules Boykoff Assistant Professor of Politics and Government" . PACIFIC Magazine . Pacific University. Archived from
the original on December 3, 2008. Retrieved August 15, 2012 .
^ Hanley Jr, Daniel P. (October 28, 1993).
"Milwaukee thinks big after signing Nogueira, 4 others" . The Milwaukee Journal . Archived from
the original on May 13, 2016. Retrieved August 15, 2012 .
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"Boykoff makes his mark" . The Milwaukee Journal . February 3, 1994. Archived from
the original on May 8, 2016. Retrieved August 15, 2012 .
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"Can Tokyo Safely Host the Olympic Games This Summer?" . Time . Retrieved 2021-02-06 .
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"Sochi Games Are Apt Venue for Athlete Activism"
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Jules Boykoff - Department of Politics & Government at Pacific University
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OregonLive.com's Printer-Friendly Page
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Panel debate: Communicating climate change - CICERO
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The Tangent Occasional Reading Series
Archived 2008-09-18 at the
Wayback Machine
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zine
Archived 2007-01-01 at the
Wayback Machine
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"Pacific Professor Boykoff in Forefront of Movement Against Tokyo Summer Olympics" . Pacific University . 2021-05-28. Retrieved 2021-08-09 .
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"The Dark Side Of Being An Olympic Host City" . NPR.org . Retrieved 2021-08-09 .
^ Zirin, Dave; Boykoff, Jules (2019-07-23).
"These Women Have Lost Their Homes to the Olympics in Tokyo—Twice" .
ISSN
0027-8378 . Retrieved 2021-08-09 .
^ Boykoff, Jules (2023-01-02).
"The Tokyo 2020 Olympics: From a "safe pair of hands" to a corrupt pair of claws" . Contemporary Japan . 35 (1): 55–57.
doi :
10.1080/18692729.2023.2168836 .
ISSN
1869-2729 .
External links
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