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  • Athlete and Activist

    28 Sports Stars Who Changed the Game

    par Jules Boykoff, Alex Davis, Amira Davis ...
    Again and again, great athletes seem to do the impossible. Their skills amaze us. Their work ethic inspires awe. Their talent is next level. At the same time, an athlete’s fame gives them a platform to speak out on important issues. With words and actions, a basketball star or Olympic legend can reach millions of people with their message.Athlete and Activist highlights sports figures who risked ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Kicking

    par Jules Boykoff ...
    Collections series Practices
    As a poet, public-facing scholar of sports politics, and former professional soccer player, having represented the United States on the men’s U23 national soccer team, Jules Boykoff draws on his lifetime of athletic experience to reflect on the practice of kicking. With short vignettes blending the personal, the reflective, the historical, and the analytical, Kicking is uniquely positioned to ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Power Games

    A Political History of the Olympics

    par Jules Boykoff ...
    A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic GamesThe 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’ flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • NOlympians

    Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beyond

    par Jules Boykoff ...
    NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beyond investigates the intersection of the global rise of anti-Olympics activism and the declining popularity of hosting of the Games. The Olympics were once buoyed by myths of luminous prosperity and upticks in tourism and jobs, but in recent years these assurances have been debunked. Now more than ever, it’s ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • What Are the Olympics For?

    par Jules Boykoff ...
    Collections series What Is It 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 attention is riveted by the triumphs and tribulations on their screens, there is much that goes on behind the scenes that is deeply troubling: athletes are increasingly voicing concerns over physical, ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

  • Winters of Discontent

    The Winter Olympics and a Half Century of Protest and Resistance

    par Russell Field, Adam Berg, Christine O’Bonsawin, Jules Boykoff, Sven D. Wolfe, Liv Yoon, Jan O. Tangen, Bieke Gils, Keiko Ikeda0, Tyrel Eskelson1 ...
    Collections series Sport and Society
    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 local or global concerns. Russell Field edits a collection that charts the evolution of protest around the Winter Games and illuminates the issues at the heart of anti-Olympic activism.The essays ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Activism and the Olympics

    Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London

    par Jules Boykoff ...
    Collections series Critical Issues in Sport and Society
    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 slopes, shooting ranges, swimming pools, and track ovals. Given their scale in the modern era, the Games are a useful window for better comprehending larger cultural, social, and historical processes, ... En savoir plus

    $37.39 CAD

  • Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games

    par Jules Boykoff ...
    Collections series Routledge Critical Studies in Sport
    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 "Olympic Image" in the hope of gaining a worldwide marketing audience of billions.In this provocative critical study of the contemporary Olympics, Jules Boykoff argues that the Games have become a ... En savoir plus

    $86.56 CAD

  • The Suppression of Dissent

    How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social Movements

    par Jules Boykoff ...
    Collections series New Approaches in Sociology
    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 and difficult-to observe - suppression in this country. Using mechanism-based social-movement theory, this book explores a wide range of twentieth century episodes of contention, involving such groups ... En savoir plus

    $97.55 CAD

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    What Are the Olympics For?

    par Jules Boykoff ...
    Lu par John Chancer ...
    Collections series What Is It For?

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    ‘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 attention is riveted by the triumphs and tribulations on their screens, there is much that goes on behind the scenes that is deeply troubling: athletes are increasingly voicing concerns over physical, ... En savoir plus

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    Aussi disponible en : eBook

    Aussi disponible en : eBook

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  • The Olympics: The Basics

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    The Olympics: The Basics is an accessible, contemporary introduction to the Olympic movement and Games. Chapters explain how the Olympics transcend sports, engaging us with a range of contemporary philosophical, social, cultural and political matters, including:peace development and diplomacymanagement and economicscorruption, terror and activismthe rise of human enhancementethics and ... En savoir plus

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