Jules Boykoff
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 256748 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jules Boykoff |
| PRENOMES | Jules |
| SOBRENOME | Boykoff |
| ASSINATURA | BOYKOFF J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Pacific University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6313-0684 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 778 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Sportswashing and the Los Angeles 2028 Summer Olympics
Sportswashing is a political phenomenon whereby leaders and governments attempt to leverage sport to their advantage. Sport affords political entities an opportunity to legitimise and empower themselves on the global stage, while simultaneously fomenting nationalism and deflecting domestic attention away from ingrained social and human-rights concerns. In the twenty-first century, sportswashers running the spectrum from authoritarian regimes to l…
What Is Fifa For
Settler Colonialism–Genocide–Athleticide
In this paper, our scholarly collective traces how athleticide—defined here as the obliteration of sport, sporting cultures, and athletics through the killing, arrest, detention, or disabling of athletes, coaches, staff, officials, and administrators and the destruction of athletic infrastructure and history—has been part of the US–NATO-funded Israeli state’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023. Although much of the literature foc…
Greenwash Gold
What Are the Olympics For?
‘Athletes first’ is a slogan the International Olympic Committee often touts, but the reality is very different, as preeminent 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, mental and sexual abuse, and they are collectively exp…
Heartbreak City
Glitterati and Grit
Amid the whirling swirl of overlapping global crises-from extreme inequality and climate change to unaccountable elite power and securitized violence at the international and domestic levels-sport studies may, on their surface, appear superfluous. However, this article argues that critical academic scholarship on sports mega-events like the Olympic Games and soccer World Cup can, due to these events' cultural power and global scope, be an effecti…
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Framing the Games
The Olympics are a media behemoth. Much media coverage of the Games is straight-up sports fare delivered in the predictable rhythms of victory and defeat. However, with the Beijing 2022 Winter Games, US media outlets offered significant coverage exploring the political and human-rights concerns. This paper identifies and analyzes the predominant frames that US media outlets employed when covering the Beijing Olympics. The empirical data for this …
Toward a Theory of Sportswashing
Sportswashing has emerged full force in the 21st century, highlighting the gap between word and deed in the sports world. Yet, the term suffers from definitional imprecision and is often applied solely to autocratic hosts. This article offers a robust definition of sportswashing and—building from the soft-power approach to analyzing mega-events like the Olympics and World Cup—creates a sportswashing typology. This paper offers four advances in co…
The White Racial Frame in Sport Media
This article utilizes the 'white racial frame' to analyze the sport media coverage of the public feud between U.S. President Donald Trump and basketball celebrity entrepreneur, LaVar Ball. The feud originated in November 2017, when LaVar's son-University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) player LiAngelo Ball-was detained in Hangzhou, China, for shoplifting along with two of his UCLA teammates. After some tense moments, the three players were rele…
Olympic sustainability or Olympian smokescreen
The Tokyo 2020 Games and the End of Olympic History
On 24 July 2019 International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach stepped to the dais at the Tokyo International Forum and opined, “I have never seen an Olympic city as prepared as Tokyo with o
Sporting dissent
In August 2016, Colin Kaepernick, a quarterback on the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League, sat in protest during the national anthem. He made it clear that his stance was a political statement against racialized oppression and police brutality carried out against people of color in the USA, and in doing so he became a polarizing cultural figure. This article uses content analysis to examine newspaper coverage of the emergence and…
Riding the Lines
This article expands a plenary lecture I delivered at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport's 2017 conference in Windsor, Canada. 1 Windsor sits on the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations, comprised of the Ojibwa, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi peoples.Mentioning this fact is no mere historical courtesy; it is meant to acknowledge these groups' continued existence and resistance in the face of whit…
Protest, Activism, and the Olympic Games
Since the early days of the modern Olympics, luminaries within the International Olympic Committee have actively discouraged mixing sports with political protest. However, throughout the history of the games, activism has often bubbled to the surface. This has taken two predominant forms: (1) athlete activism and (2) political movements that springboard off the games to express their dissent, taking advantage of the media spotlight that flashes o…
Sport, protest and globalisation
In the late 1980s, Pierre Bourdieu argued that sport sociologists were ‘doubly dominated’ in that the serious study of sport was marginalized within the field of sociology and maligned by powerbrok
Sport and social movements
Sport and social movements: from the local to the global (globalizing sport studies series)." Social Movement Studies, 15(6), pp. 651–652
The Olympics, Sustainability, and Greenwashing
In September 2015 Pope Francis traveled to the United States for a historic visit where he rolled out his vision on climate change, poverty, and inequality. The Pope, who had famously referred to t
Rio 2016
Introduction Rio de Janeiro has a storied record of supporting environmental action. The city twice hosted the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development: in 1992 when it was more widely known as the “Earth Summit” and in 2012, when it was called “Rio+20.” During this time period, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) amplified its rhetorical commitment to environmental sustainability, although host-city follow-though was routin…
Books by Our Readers
In Activism and the Olympics, Boykoff provides a critical overview of the Olympic industry and its political opponents in the modern era. After presenting a brief history of Olympic activism, he turns his attention to activism through the lens of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Activism and the Olympics
Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games
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 massive planned economy designed to shield the rich fr…
London's shadow legacies
When London organisers bid on the 2012 Summer Olympics, they promised an array of legacies, from economic and environmental to cultural and sport-related. In bid materials, Lord Sebastian Coe and his colleagues put forth a four-pronged vision for the Games: providing an unforgettable experience for athletes; forging a British sport legacy; regenerating East London economically and socially; and championing the Olympic Movement and the Internation…
US Media Coverage of the Cancún Climate Change Conference
Much was at stake at the 2010 United Nations climate change conference in Cancún, Mexico. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was being challenged by the world's two largest greenhouse gas emitters, China and the United States, after these countries reached a tenuous backroom deal one year earlier in Copenhagen. Meanwhile, scientific studies were warning of serious and severe climate change. This article analyzes newspaper a…
Balance as bias
Climate change and journalistic norms
Framing Dissent
This study explores the framing practices employed by mainstream mass-media outlets in the United States in their coverage of the Global Justice Movement during two major episodes of contention: the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle in 1999 and the World Bank/IMF protests in Washington, DC in 2000. A content analysis of prominent and influential newspapers—the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street …
Toward a Theory of Sportswashing
Sportswashing has emerged full force in the 21st century, highlighting the gap between word and deed in the sports world. Yet, the term suffers from definitional imprecision and is often applied solely to autocratic hosts. This article offers a robust definition of sportswashing and—building from the soft-power approach to analyzing mega-events like the Olympics and World Cup—creates a sportswashing typology. This paper offers four advances in co…
Limiting Dissent
Despite longstanding traditions of tolerance, inclusion, and democracy in the USA, dissident citizens and social movements have experienced significant and sustained – although often subtle and difficult-to-observe – repression. Using mechanism-based social movement theory, I explore a range of twentieth-century episodes of contention, involving such groups as mid-century communists, the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, and the …
The Olympics, Sustainability, and Greenwashing
In September 2015 Pope Francis traveled to the United States for a historic visit where he rolled out his vision on climate change, poverty, and inequality. The Pope, who had famously referred to t
The Tea Party Movement, Framing, and the US Media
In February 2009, the Tea Party Movement (TPM) burst onto the political scene in the USA. Emerging out of popular unrest over the economic downturn of 2008 and the perceived radical agenda of President Barack Obama, the Tea Party quickly captured the imagination of disenchanted conservatives. Media coverage of the movement was abundant, with a frame contest between the TPM and its political opponents swiftly surfacing. Media frames bracketed disc…
Sporting dissent
In August 2016, Colin Kaepernick, a quarterback on the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League, sat in protest during the national anthem. He made it clear that his stance was a political statement against racialized oppression and police brutality carried out against people of color in the USA, and in doing so he became a polarizing cultural figure. This article uses content analysis to examine newspaper coverage of the emergence and…
The Tokyo 2020 Games and the End of Olympic History
On 24 July 2019 International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach stepped to the dais at the Tokyo International Forum and opined, “I have never seen an Olympic city as prepared as Tokyo with o
Protest, Activism, and the Olympic Games
Since the early days of the modern Olympics, luminaries within the International Olympic Committee have actively discouraged mixing sports with political protest. However, throughout the history of the games, activism has often bubbled to the surface. This has taken two predominant forms: (1) athlete activism and (2) political movements that springboard off the games to express their dissent, taking advantage of the media spotlight that flashes o…
London's shadow legacies
When London organisers bid on the 2012 Summer Olympics, they promised an array of legacies, from economic and environmental to cultural and sport-related. In bid materials, Lord Sebastian Coe and his colleagues put forth a four-pronged vision for the Games: providing an unforgettable experience for athletes; forging a British sport legacy; regenerating East London economically and socially; and championing the Olympic Movement and the Internation…
Space Matters
The history of the Olympic Games is fraught with racism, class privilege, and questionable leadership from the International Olympic Committee (IOC). In the modern era, the Olympics have generated an increasing scale of dissent. Activists challenging the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver adopted concertedly spatial strategies and tactics. Organizing around three main issues—indigenous rights, economic concerns, and civil liberties—they linked in …
Riding the Lines
This article expands a plenary lecture I delivered at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport's 2017 conference in Windsor, Canada. 1 Windsor sits on the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations, comprised of the Ojibwa, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi peoples.Mentioning this fact is no mere historical courtesy; it is meant to acknowledge these groups' continued existence and resistance in the face of whit…
Glitterati and Grit
Amid the whirling swirl of overlapping global crises-from extreme inequality and climate change to unaccountable elite power and securitized violence at the international and domestic levels-sport studies may, on their surface, appear superfluous. However, this article argues that critical academic scholarship on sports mega-events like the Olympic Games and soccer World Cup can, due to these events' cultural power and global scope, be an effecti…
Framing the Games
The Olympics are a media behemoth. Much media coverage of the Games is straight-up sports fare delivered in the predictable rhythms of victory and defeat. However, with the Beijing 2022 Winter Games, US media outlets offered significant coverage exploring the political and human-rights concerns. This paper identifies and analyzes the predominant frames that US media outlets employed when covering the Beijing Olympics. The empirical data for this …
The Leaf Blower, Capitalism, and the Atomization of Everyday Life
The use of leaf blowers has become endemic to landscaping, groundskeeping, and yard care in the United States. The National Gardening Association (2008) found that each year between 2002 and 2007
Devil or Democrat? Hugo Chávez and the US Prestige Press
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has emerged as an outspoken challenger to US geopolitical preeminence in the Americas. This study explores the framing practices employed by mainstream newspaper outlets in the United States in their coverage of President Chavez over a ten-year time period—between 1998, the year he was first elected president, and December 2007. This content analysis examines media output from a number of influential newspapers: T…
Greenwash Gold
The White Racial Frame in Sport Media
This article utilizes the 'white racial frame' to analyze the sport media coverage of the public feud between U.S. President Donald Trump and basketball celebrity entrepreneur, LaVar Ball. The feud originated in November 2017, when LaVar's son-University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) player LiAngelo Ball-was detained in Hangzhou, China, for shoplifting along with two of his UCLA teammates. After some tense moments, the three players were rele…
The Anti-Olympics
Always an avatar for the international order of the day—Victorian imperialism, Cold War rivalry, Pax Americana—the Olympics have joined the wto and G20 as focus for alter-globo protest. Lessons for London from the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, where artists, activists and indigenous organizers took on the spectacle of the five-ring circus
Settler Colonialism–Genocide–Athleticide
In this paper, our scholarly collective traces how athleticide—defined here as the obliteration of sport, sporting cultures, and athletics through the killing, arrest, detention, or disabling of athletes, coaches, staff, officials, and administrators and the destruction of athletic infrastructure and history—has been part of the US–NATO-funded Israeli state’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023. Although much of the literature foc…
Olympic sustainability or Olympian smokescreen
Rio 2016
Introduction Rio de Janeiro has a storied record of supporting environmental action. The city twice hosted the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development: in 1992 when it was more widely known as the “Earth Summit” and in 2012, when it was called “Rio+20.” During this time period, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) amplified its rhetorical commitment to environmental sustainability, although host-city follow-though was routin…
US Media Coverage of the Cancún Climate Change Conference
Much was at stake at the 2010 United Nations climate change conference in Cancún, Mexico. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was being challenged by the world's two largest greenhouse gas emitters, China and the United States, after these countries reached a tenuous backroom deal one year earlier in Copenhagen. Meanwhile, scientific studies were warning of serious and severe climate change. This article analyzes newspaper a…
Surveillance, Spatial Compression, and Scale
In 1976, the Church Committee, a Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations, came to the conclusion that Martin Luther King Jr “was the target of an intensive campaign by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to ‘neutralize’ him as an effective civil rights leader”. This paper explores how the FBI surveilled Martin Luther King Jr between September 1957 and Dr King's death in 1968 and how such surveillance relates to both spatial compr…
In Brief
Balance as bias
How Patriotic is the Patriot Act
Framing Dissent
This study explores the framing practices employed by mainstream mass-media outlets in the United States in their coverage of the Global Justice Movement during two major episodes of contention: the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle in 1999 and the World Bank/IMF protests in Washington, DC in 2000. A content analysis of prominent and influential newspapers—the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street …
Surveillance, Spatial Compression, and Scale
In 1976, the Church Committee, a Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations, came to the conclusion that Martin Luther King Jr “was the target of an intensive campaign by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to ‘neutralize’ him as an effective civil rights leader”. This paper explores how the FBI surveilled Martin Luther King Jr between September 1957 and Dr King's death in 1968 and how such surveillance relates to both spatial compr…
Climate change and journalistic norms
Limiting Dissent
Despite longstanding traditions of tolerance, inclusion, and democracy in the USA, dissident citizens and social movements have experienced significant and sustained – although often subtle and difficult-to-observe – repression. Using mechanism-based social movement theory, I explore a range of twentieth-century episodes of contention, involving such groups as mid-century communists, the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, and the …
Devil or Democrat? Hugo Chávez and the US Prestige Press
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has emerged as an outspoken challenger to US geopolitical preeminence in the Americas. This study explores the framing practices employed by mainstream newspaper outlets in the United States in their coverage of President Chavez over a ten-year time period—between 1998, the year he was first elected president, and December 2007. This content analysis examines media output from a number of influential newspapers: T…
Space Matters
The history of the Olympic Games is fraught with racism, class privilege, and questionable leadership from the International Olympic Committee (IOC). In the modern era, the Olympics have generated an increasing scale of dissent. Activists challenging the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver adopted concertedly spatial strategies and tactics. Organizing around three main issues—indigenous rights, economic concerns, and civil liberties—they linked in …
The Spatialities of Dissent and Its Suppression
The Anti-Olympics
Always an avatar for the international order of the day—Victorian imperialism, Cold War rivalry, Pax Americana—the Olympics have joined the wto and G20 as focus for alter-globo protest. Lessons for London from the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, where artists, activists and indigenous organizers took on the spectacle of the five-ring circus
The Tea Party Movement, Framing, and the US Media
In February 2009, the Tea Party Movement (TPM) burst onto the political scene in the USA. Emerging out of popular unrest over the economic downturn of 2008 and the perceived radical agenda of President Barack Obama, the Tea Party quickly captured the imagination of disenchanted conservatives. Media coverage of the movement was abundant, with a frame contest between the TPM and its political opponents swiftly surfacing. Media frames bracketed disc…
The Leaf Blower, Capitalism, and the Atomization of Everyday Life
The use of leaf blowers has become endemic to landscaping, groundskeeping, and yard care in the United States. The National Gardening Association (2008) found that each year between 2002 and 2007
US Media Coverage of the Cancún Climate Change Conference
Much was at stake at the 2010 United Nations climate change conference in Cancún, Mexico. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was being challenged by the world's two largest greenhouse gas emitters, China and the United States, after these countries reached a tenuous backroom deal one year earlier in Copenhagen. Meanwhile, scientific studies were warning of serious and severe climate change. This article analyzes newspaper a…
Suppression of Dissent
Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games
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 massive planned economy designed to shield the rich fr…
London's shadow legacies
When London organisers bid on the 2012 Summer Olympics, they promised an array of legacies, from economic and environmental to cultural and sport-related. In bid materials, Lord Sebastian Coe and his colleagues put forth a four-pronged vision for the Games: providing an unforgettable experience for athletes; forging a British sport legacy; regenerating East London economically and socially; and championing the Olympic Movement and the Internation…
Activism and the Olympics
Books by Our Readers
In Activism and the Olympics, Boykoff provides a critical overview of the Olympic industry and its political opponents in the modern era. After presenting a brief history of Olympic activism, he turns his attention to activism through the lens of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Sport and social movements
Sport and social movements: from the local to the global (globalizing sport studies series)." Social Movement Studies, 15(6), pp. 651–652
The Olympics, Sustainability, and Greenwashing
In September 2015 Pope Francis traveled to the United States for a historic visit where he rolled out his vision on climate change, poverty, and inequality. The Pope, who had famously referred to t
Rio 2016
Introduction Rio de Janeiro has a storied record of supporting environmental action. The city twice hosted the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development: in 1992 when it was more widely known as the “Earth Summit” and in 2012, when it was called “Rio+20.” During this time period, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) amplified its rhetorical commitment to environmental sustainability, although host-city follow-though was routin…
Protest, Activism, and the Olympic Games
Since the early days of the modern Olympics, luminaries within the International Olympic Committee have actively discouraged mixing sports with political protest. However, throughout the history of the games, activism has often bubbled to the surface. This has taken two predominant forms: (1) athlete activism and (2) political movements that springboard off the games to express their dissent, taking advantage of the media spotlight that flashes o…
Sport, protest and globalisation
In the late 1980s, Pierre Bourdieu argued that sport sociologists were ‘doubly dominated’ in that the serious study of sport was marginalized within the field of sociology and maligned by powerbrok
Riding the Lines
This article expands a plenary lecture I delivered at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport's 2017 conference in Windsor, Canada. 1 Windsor sits on the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations, comprised of the Ojibwa, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi peoples.Mentioning this fact is no mere historical courtesy; it is meant to acknowledge these groups' continued existence and resistance in the face of whit…
Political science (30 obras) · Law (23 obras) · Sociology (22 obras) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (22 obras) · Sports, Gender, and Society (20 obras) · Politics (19 obras) · Law (17 obras) · Media studies (15 obras) · Dissent (9 obras) · History (8 obras)