Jules Boykoff
Boykoff in 2012
Boykoff in 2012
Born (1970-09-11) September 11, 1970
OccupationAcademic, author
NationalityAmerican
EducationPh.D in Political Science
Alma materUniversity of Portland
Notable worksBeyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States; Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry & Public Space; The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social Movements; Once Upon a Neoliberal Rocket Badge; Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics
Notable awardsTrombley Award for teaching excellence
Website
julesboykoff.org

Jules Boykoff (born September 11, 1970) is an American academic, author, poet, and former athlete. He is a 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 four books on the Olympic Games, and he has written essays in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, NBC News, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and Jacobin. He has appeared on BBC, CNN, CNBC, NPR, CBC Television, CTV Television Network, Al Jazeera English, Democracy Now!, and The Majority Report with Sam Seder.

Life and work

Soccer career

Jules Boykoff
Personal information
Full name Jason Boykoff
Date of birth (1970-09-11) September 11, 1970
Place of birth Madison, Wisconsin
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Wisconsin Badgers
Portland Pilots
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (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 college level, 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 Continental Indoor Soccer League (CISL). He also played with National Professional Soccer League team Milwaukee Wave. In all he played four seasons of indoor professional soccer.[1][2][3]

At the age of 19, he played for the United States men's national under-23 soccer team in the 1990 Toulon Tournament.[4] The United States Soccer Federation entered the 1990, 1991 and 1992 editions in preparation for the 1992 Summer Olympics football tournament.

Academic career

Boykoff is currently a professor of Politics and Government at Pacific University, Oregon.[5] In 2007 and 2009, students selected him as recipient of the Trombley Award for teaching excellence.[6] He also held a visiting professor position at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington during the 2004–2005 school year.[7]

Common course 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]

Critique of the Olympic Games

Boykoff has been called “one of the biggest names in international Olympic Games academia" and is known for his informed criticism of the Olympic Games.[13][14]

Common themes in Boykoff's Olympics work include overspending, corruption, militarization of the public sphere and police, gentrification, and greenwashing.

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] His works also inspired anti-Olympics groups in Japan in the lead up to the 2020 Summer Olympics. Scholar and Olympic critic Yoshifusa Ichii further connected Boykoff's concept of the Olympics as "celebration capitalism" with Mark Fisher's notion of "capitalist realism" to argue that "the relationship between new ways of life, celebration capitalism and neoliberalism is a constitutive part of capitalist realism aimed at ensuring the rule of capital at any cost, as demonstrated by the IOC's running of the Olympics despite the COVID-19 epidemic."[18]

In June 2021 Boykoff debated Richard W. Pound of the International Olympic Committee.[19]

Bibliography

Books

Nonfiction

  • The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social Movements: Routledge, 2006. I ISBN 978-0415978101
  • Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States: AK Press, 2007. I ISBN 978-1904859598
  • Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry & Public Space, co-authored by Kaia Sand: Palm Press, 2008. I ISBN 978-0978926243
  • Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games: Routledge, 2013. I ISBN 9780415821971
  • Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London: Rutgers University Press, 2014. I ISBN 978-0813562018
  • Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics: Verso Books, 2016. I ISBN 9781784780722
  • NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beyond: Fernwood Publishing, 2020. I ISBN 9781773632766
  • The 1936 Berlin Olympics: Race, Power, and Sportswashing: Common Ground Research Networks, 2023. I ISBN 9781957792248

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

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ "Boykoff makes his mark". The Milwaukee Journal. February 3, 1994. Archived from the original on May 8, 2016. Retrieved August 15, 2012.
  4. ↑ "18ème Festival Foot "Espoirs"". festival-foot-espoirs.com. Archived from the original on 13 July 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  5. ↑ "Can Tokyo Safely Host the Olympic Games This Summer?". Time. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
  6. ↑ "Pacific University Annual Report 2009-2010".
  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. ↑ "Western to Hold 12th Annual International Symposium for Olympic Research"
  14. 1 2 "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.
  18. ↑ Ichii, Yoshifusa (2023-01-02). "The capitalist realism of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games". Contemporary Japan. 35 (1): 58–72. doi:10.1080/18692729.2023.2171717. ISSN 1869-2729.
  19. ↑ "Beijing Boycott | Munk Debates". munkdebates.com. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
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