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Author: Jules Boykoff
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.513kg
ISBN: 9780813562025
ISBN 10: 0813562023
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 27 July 2014
Audience:
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Well-written and at times even lyrical, Activism and the Olympics provides a provocative contribution to ongoing discussions regarding the role of sport in society. Utilizing media analyses in concert with ethnographic field research, Boykoff takes us inside the world of Olympic activists and illustrates the intertwined nature of sport and politics on the global stage. --Michael D. Giardina Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation: Consumption and the Cultural Politics of Ne (08/23/2013)
Drawing on 70 interviews and analysis and observation of selected cases, Boykoff explores in unprecedentedly illuminating fashion the spaces of dissent within Olympic events. Interdisciplinary, critical, investigative, he shows how protest and fearless speech ('parrhesia') question Olympic myth and ideology. --Alan Tomlinson University of Brighton (04/29/2014)
Drawing on 70 interviews and analysis and observation of selected cases, Boykoff explores in unprecedentedly illuminating fashion the spaces of dissent within Olympic events. Interdisciplinary, critical, investigative, he shows how protest and fearless speech ('parrhesia') question Olympic myth and ideology. --Alan Tomlinson University of Brighton (4/29/2014 12:00:00 AM) An essential contribution to the fields of Olympic and social movement and political activism studies. -- Sport in History An important contribution to the ongoing discussion around the role of the Olympics and its political, social, and economic implications. This book is a useful read for anyone interested in learning about the under-exposed views of the activists protesting the Olympic Games, as well as for those who seek a more comprehensive grasp fo the socio-political issues related to mega-sporting events. -- International Review for the Sociology of Sport Well-written and at times even lyrical, Activism and the Olympics provides a provocative contribution to ongoing discussions regarding the role of sport in society. Utilizing media analyses in concert with ethnographic field research, Boykoff takes us inside the world of Olympic activists and illustrates the intertwined nature of sport and politics on the global stage. --Michael D. Giardina author of Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation (8/23/2013 12:00:00 AM)
Drawing on 70 interviews and analysis and observation of selected cases, Boykoff explores in unprecedentedly illuminating fashion the spaces of dissent within Olympic events. Interdisciplinary, critical, investigative, he shows how protest and fearless speech ('parrhesia') question Olympic myth and ideology. --Alan Tomlinson University of Brighton (04/29/2014) Well-written and at times even lyrical, Activism and the Olympics provides a provocative contribution to ongoing discussions regarding the role of sport in society. Utilizing media analyses in concert with ethnographic field research, Boykoff takes us inside the world of Olympic activists and illustrates the intertwined nature of sport and politics on the global stage. --Michael D. Giardina author of Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation (08/23/2013)
Author Information
JULES BOYKOFF is an associate professor in the department of politics and government at Pacific University and the author of Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games.
