Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics

Name: Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics
Brand: Verso Books
SKU: 9781784780722
Price: 15.29 EUR
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By (author): Jules Boykoff

The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event's nineteenth-century origins, through the Games' flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt-Olympic movements, such as the Workers' Games and Women's Games of the 1920s and 1930s as well as athlete-activists and political movements that stood up to challenge the Olympic machine. See more

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Weight: 450g
Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
Publication Date: 17 May 2016
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781784780722

About Jules Boykoff

Jules Boykoff is an academic author and former professional soccer player. He is the author of Activism and the Olympics Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games Landscapes of Dissent Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States among others. He has been called one of the biggest names in international Olympic Games academia. His writing has appeared in the Guardian the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle and he has been interviewed on the BBC and Democracy Now! He is a professor of Politics and Government at Pacific University in Forest Grove Oregon.