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ISBN10: 0813562015, ISBN13: 9780813562018, [publisher: Rutgers University Press] Softcover Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority! [Dallas, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2014]
Rutgers University Press 2014 Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 208 p. Contains: Unspecified, Illustrations, black & white. Critical Issues in Sport and Society.
Rutgers University Press 2014 Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 208 p. Contains: Unspecified, Illustrations, black & white. Critical Issues in Sport and Society.
Paperback / softback. New. 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, argues Jules Boykoff, an academic social scientist and a former Olympic athlete. 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 on-the-ground activism through the lens of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Here we see how anti-Olympic activists deploy a range of approaches to challenge the Olympic machine, from direct action and the seizure of public space to humour-based and online tactics. Drawing on primary evidence from myriad personal interviews with activists, journalists, civil libertarians and Olympics organisers, Boykoff angles in on the Games from numerous vantages and viewpoints. Although modern Olympic authorities have strived - even through the Cold War era - to appear apolitical, Boykoff notes, the Games have always been the site of hotly contested political actions and competing interests. During the last thirty years, as the Olympi ...
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ISBN10: 0813562015, ISBN13: 9780813562018, [publisher: Rutgers University Press 7/27/2014] Softcover Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London 0.79 [Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2014]
Rutgers University Press 2014 Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 208 p. Contains: Unspecified, Illustrations, black & white. Critical Issues in Sport and Society.
ISBN10: 0813562015, ISBN13: 9780813562018, [publisher: RUTGERS UNIV PR] Softcover Über den AutorBoykoff, JulesInhaltsverzeichnisList of Illustrations and TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Olympics and Me1. Understanding the Olympic Games2. [Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2014]
ISBN10: 0813562015, ISBN13: 9780813562018, [publisher: Rutgers University Press] Softcover Special order direct from the distributor [Victoria, BC, Canada] [Publication Year: 2014]
ISBN10: 0813562015, ISBN13: 9780813562018, [publisher: RUTGERS UNIV PR] Softcover Über den AutorBoykoff, JulesInhaltsverzeichnisList of Illustrations and TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Olympics and Me1. Understanding the Olympic Games2. [Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2014]
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