'Athletes first' is a slogan the International Olympic Committee often touts, but the reality is ...

A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic GamesThe Olympics hav...

How government and media team up to silence, sometimes permanently, dissenting voices in the Unit...

In this provocative critical study of the contemporary Olympics, Jules Boykoff argues that the Ga...

Despite longstanding traditions of tolerance, inclusion, and democracy in the United States, diss...

'The need for critical writing about the Olympics has never been more important and no one does i...

Using mechanism-based social-movement theory, this book explores a wide range of twentieth centur...

In Activism and the Olympics, Boykoff provides a critical overview of the Olympic industry and it...

Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry & Public Space

'When Adolf Hitler hosted the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, he used the Games to rally politica...