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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…
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Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London Paperback - 2014
by Jules Boykoff
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- Title Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London
- Author Jules Boykoff
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Rutgers University Press
- Date 2014-07-27
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780813562018 / 0813562015
- Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.55 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.40 cm)
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- Aspects (Academic): Sociological
- Library of Congress subjects Dissenters, Olympics - Political aspects
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013040634
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.48
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