Jules Boykoff
{{Short description|American academic and soccer player}}
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| occupation = Academic, author
| nationality = American
| education = Ph.D in Political Science
| alma_mater = University of Portland (BA)
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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.{{Cite book |last=Boykoff |first=Jules |url=https://cup.columbia.edu/book/nolympians/9781773632766 |title=NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beyond |date=April 2020 |publisher=Fernwood Publishing |isbn=978-1-77363-276-6}} He has written the book, NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beyond.
Life and work
=Soccer career=
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Jules Boykoff
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| fullname = Jason Boykoff
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| birth_place = Madison, Wisconsin
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| height = {{height|ft=5|in=10}}
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| collegeyears1 =
| college1 = Wisconsin Badgers
| collegeyears2 =
| college2 = Portland Pilots
| years1 = 1993–1996
| clubs1 = Portland Pride (indoor)
| caps1 = 98
| goals1 = 26
| years2 = 1993–1994
| clubs2 = Milwaukee Wave (indoor)
| caps2 = 40
| goals2 = 3
| nationalyears1 = 1990| nationalteam1 = United States U-23| nationalcaps1 = | nationalgoals1 =
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At the age of 19, he played for the United States men's national under-23 soccer team in the 1990 Toulon Tournament.{{cite web|title=18ème Festival Foot "Espoirs"|url=http://www.festival-foot-espoirs.com/archive-festival-foot/archive-festival-foot.php?annee=1990&id=18&content=equipes|publisher=festival-foot-espoirs.com|accessdate=23 March 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140713223056/http://festival-foot-espoirs.com/archive-festival-foot/archive-festival-foot.php?annee=1990&id=18&content=equipes|archivedate=13 July 2014}} 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.{{cite news |title=Q & A with Jules Boykoff Assistant Professor of Politics and Government |author=Dodge, Steve|work=PACIFIC Magazine|publisher=Pacific University|date=Spring 2007|accessdate=August 15, 2012|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203164113/http://www.pacificu.edu/magazine/2007/spring/qa-jules_boykoff.cfm |archivedate=December 3, 2008|url=http://www.pacificu.edu/magazine/2007/spring/qa-jules_boykoff.cfm}}{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19931029&id=pqIaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JC0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=3728,1125399 | title=Milwaukee thinks big after signing Nogueira, 4 others | work=The Milwaukee Journal | date=October 28, 1993 | accessdate=August 15, 2012 | author=Hanley Jr, Daniel P. | archive-date=May 13, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513011732/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19931029&id=pqIaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JC0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=3728,1125399 | url-status=dead }}{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XqIaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tywEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6180,1473126 | title=Boykoff makes his mark | work=The Milwaukee Journal | date=February 3, 1994 | accessdate=August 15, 2012 | archive-date=May 8, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508211939/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XqIaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tywEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6180,1473126 | url-status=dead }}
=Academic career=
Boykoff is a professor of Politics and Government at Pacific University, Oregon.{{Cite magazine|title=Can Tokyo Safely Host the Olympic Games This Summer?|url=https://time.com/5928595/tokyo-olympics-2021-covid/|access-date=2021-02-06|magazine=Time}} He was also a visiting professor at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington during the 2004–05 school year.[http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Sochi-Games-are-apt-venue-for-athlete-activism-5169993.php "Sochi Games Are Apt Venue for Athlete Activism"] Topics taught by Boykoff include US politics, the politics of surveillance, mass-media and politics, and the politics of literature and poetry.[http://www.pacificu.edu/as/politics/faculty/jules-boykoff.cfm Jules Boykoff - Department of Politics & Government at Pacific University] In November 2006, he spoke at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, "COP 12".{{Cite web |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/living/1164066939155070.xml&coll=7 |title=OregonLive.com's Printer-Friendly Page |access-date=2007-03-06 |archive-date=2007-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930033454/http://www.oregonlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/living/1164066939155070.xml&coll=7 |url-status=dead }}[https://archive.today/20120730045326/http://www.cicero.uio.no/webnews.asp?lang=en&id=10726 Panel debate: Communicating climate change - CICERO] 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.
Boykoff is also co-editor of The Tangent, a politics and art zine, and runs The Tangent Reading Series in Portland, Oregon.[http://www.thetangentpress.org/readings.html The Tangent Occasional Reading Series] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080918101037/http://www.thetangentpress.org/readings.html|date=2008-09-18}}[http://www.thetangentpress.org/zine.html zine] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070101065935/http://www.thetangentpress.org/zine.html |date=2007-01-01 }} Al Jazeera, New Left Review, the Jacobin and the Guardian have featured his articles.
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.{{Cite web |title=The Left Is Not "Anti-Jewish" |url=https://www.edgeofsports.com/column/the-left-is-not-anti-jewish/index.html |access-date=2024-07-18 |website=Edge of Sports |language=en}}
= 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.{{Cite web|date=2021-05-28|title=Pacific Professor Boykoff in Forefront of Movement Against Tokyo Summer Olympics|url=https://www.pacificu.edu/about/media/pacific-professor-boykoff-forefront-movement-against-tokyo-summer-olympics|access-date=2021-08-09|website=Pacific University|language=en}}
In July 2019 he interviewed two women in Tokyo who were displaced by the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 2020 Summer Olympics.{{Cite web|title=The Dark Side Of Being An Olympic Host City|url=https://www.npr.org/2021/07/04/1012978262/the-dark-side-of-being-an-olympic-host-city|access-date=2021-08-09|website=NPR.org|language=en}}{{Cite news|last1=Zirin|first1=Dave|last2=Boykoff|first2=Jules|date=2019-07-23|title=These Women Have Lost Their Homes to the Olympics in Tokyo—Twice|language=en-US|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/tokyo-olympics-displacement/|access-date=2021-08-09|issn=0027-8378}}{{Cite journal |last=Boykoff |first=Jules |date=2023-01-02 |title=The Tokyo 2020 Olympics: From a "safe pair of hands" to a corrupt pair of claws |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/18692729.2023.2168836 |journal=Contemporary Japan |language=en |volume=35 |issue=1 |pages=55–57 |doi=10.1080/18692729.2023.2168836 |issn=1869-2729}}
Bibliography
= Books =
== Nonfiction ==
- {{Citation | title=The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social Movements|publisher=Routledge|year= 2006|isbn=978-0415978101}}
- {{Citation | title=Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States|publisher=AK Press|year=2007|isbn=978-1904859598}}
- {{Citation | title=Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry & Public Space|author1=Jules Boykoff|author2=Kaia Sand|publisher=Palm Press|year=2008|isbn=978-0978926243}}
- {{Citation | title=Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games|publisher=Routledge|year=2013|isbn=9780415821971}}
- {{Citation | title=Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London|publisher=Rutgers University Press|year=2014|isbn=978-0813562018}}
- {{Citation | title=Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics|publisher=Verso Books|year=2016|isbn=9781784780722}}
- {{Citation | title=NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beyond|publisher=Fernwood Publishing|year=2020|isbn=9781773632766}}
- {{Citation | title=The 1936 Berlin Olympics: Race, Power, and Sportswashing|publisher=Common Ground Research Networks|year=2023|isbn=9781957792248}}
- {{Citation | title=What Are the Olympics For?|publisher=Bristol University Press|date=March 26, 2024|isbn=9781529230284}}
== 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
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External links
- [http://www.pacificu.edu/as/politics/faculty/jules-boykoff.cfm/ Pacific University Faculty Page]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927203709/http://www.pacificu.edu/magazine/2007/spring/qa-jules_boykoff.cfm/ Interview in Pacific Magazine]
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