Jules Boykoff

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Jules Boykoff
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Boykoff in 2012
Born (1970-09-11) September 11, 1970 (age 53)
OccupationAcademic, author
NationalityAmerican
Education Ph.D in Political Science
Alma mater University of Portland (BA)
Website
julesboykoff.org

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. His work has been featured in Al Jazeera , Jacobin and The Guardian among other publications. [1] He has written the book, NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beyond. [1]

Contents

Life and work

Soccer career

Jules Boykoff
Personal information
Full name Jason Boykoff
Place of birth Madison, Wisconsin
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
Wisconsin Badgers
Portland Pilots
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1993–1996 Portland Pride (indoor) 98 (26)
1993–1994 Milwaukee Wave (indoor) 40 (3)
International career
1990 United States U-23
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

At the age of 19, he played for the United States men's national under-23 soccer team in the 1990 Toulon Tournament. [2] 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. [3] [4] [5]

Academic career

Boykoff is a professor of Politics and Government at Pacific University, Oregon. [6] He was also a visiting professor at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington during the 2004–05 school year. [7] Topics taught by Boykoff include US politics, the politics of surveillance, mass-media and politics, and the politics of literature and poetry. [8] In November 2006, he spoke at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, "COP 12". [9] [10] 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. [9]

Boykoff is also co-editor of The Tangent, a politics and art zine, and runs The Tangent Reading Series in Portland, Oregon. [9] [11] [12] Al Jazeera, New Left Review, the Jacobin and the Guardian have featured his articles. [1]

In a shared article with Dave Zirin, Boykoff has defended anti zionist left wing protests against Israel during the Israel-Hamas war as well as the use of the phrase "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free". In the article they wrote that liberal media was promoting Israel's "Big lie" on the war. The two also accused Israel of having weaponized the holocaust for decades. They contended the left wing protests were not antisemitic. [13]

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. [14]

In July 2019 he interviewed two women in Tokyo who were displaced by the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 2020 Summer Olympics. [15] [16] [17]

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

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Boykoff, Jules (April 2020). NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beyond. Fernwood Publishing. ISBN   978-1-77363-276-6.
  2. ↑ "18ème Festival Foot "Espoirs"". festival-foot-espoirs.com. Archived from the original on 13 July 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ "Boykoff makes his mark". The Milwaukee Journal. February 3, 1994. Archived from the original on May 8, 2016. Retrieved August 15, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Can Tokyo Safely Host the Olympic Games This Summer?". Time. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
  7. ↑ "Sochi Games Are Apt Venue for Athlete Activism"
  8. ↑ Jules Boykoff - Department of Politics & Government at Pacific University
  9. 1 2 3 OregonLive.com's Printer-Friendly Page
  10. ↑ Panel debate: Communicating climate change - CICERO
  11. ↑ The Tangent Occasional Reading Series Archived 2008-09-18 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ↑ zine Archived 2007-01-01 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ↑ "The Left Is Not "Anti-Jewish"". Edge of Sports. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
  14. ↑ "Pacific Professor Boykoff in Forefront of Movement Against Tokyo Summer Olympics". Pacific University. 2021-05-28. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
  15. ↑ "The Dark Side Of Being An Olympic Host City". NPR.org. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
  16. ↑ 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.
  17. ↑ 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.
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