Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games write by Jules Boykoff. This book was released on 2013-08-15. Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Olympic Games have become the world’s greatest media and marketing event—a global celebration of exceptional athletics gilded with corporate cash. Huge corporations vie for association with the "Olympic Image" in the hope of gaining a worldwide marketing audience of billions. In this provocative critical study of the contemporary Olympics, Jules Boykoff argues that the Games have become a massive planned economy designed to shield the rich from risk while providing them with a spectacle to treasure. Placing political economy at the center of the analysis, and drawing on interdisciplinary research in sociology, politics, geography, history, and economics, Boykoff develops an innovative theory of "celebration capitalism", the manipulation of state actors as partners that drives us towards public–private partnerships in which the public pays and the private profits. He argues that the Athens Games in 2004 marked the full emergence of celebration capitalism, with London 2012 representing its quintessential expression, characterized by a state of exception, unfettered commercialism, repression of dissent, questionable sustainability claims, and the complicity of the mainstream media. Controversial, challenging, and forthright, this book opens up a fascinating new avenue for understanding the contemporary Olympics in the context of global capitalist society. It is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the Olympic Games, the relationship between sport and society, or global politics and culture.
Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games : IBL BUI 37/22
Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games : IBL BUI 37/22 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games : IBL BUI 37/22 write by Jules Boykoff. This book was released on 2014. Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games : IBL BUI 37/22 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Power Games
Power Games - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Power Games write by Jules Boykoff. This book was released on 2016-05-17. Power Games available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
A Political History Of The Olympic Games
A Political History Of The Olympic Games - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Political History Of The Olympic Games write by David B Kanin. This book was released on 2019-08-19. A Political History Of The Olympic Games available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The turmoil surrounding the 1980 Olympic Games, says the author, was nothing new--it was merely the most recent, and most complex, manifestation of the political content of modern sport. Despite the mythology perpetrated by Olympic publicists, the modern Olympic Games were founded with expressly political goals in mind and continue to thrive on tie
NOlympians
NOlympians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook NOlympians write by Jules Boykoff. This book was released on 2020-04-08T00:00:00Z. NOlympians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beyond investigates the intersection of the global rise of anti-Olympics activism and the declining popularity of hosting of the Games. The Olympics were once buoyed by myths of luminous prosperity and upticks in tourism and jobs, but in recent years these assurances have been debunked. Now more than ever, it’s clear that the Olympics have transmogrified into a political-economic juggernaut that arrives with displacement, expanded policing, and anti-democratic backroom deals. Jules Boykoff – a former professional soccer player who represented the US Olympic soccer team – zooms in on Los Angeles, where the Democratic Socialists of America have launched the NOlympics LA campaign ahead of the 2028 Summer Games. Boykoff shows how DSA-LA’s anti-Olympics activism fits with the resurgence of socialism in the US and beyond. Boykoff’s research, based on more than 100 interviews with anti-Olympics activists, personal experiences at protests in Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, London, and Tokyo, academic research, mass- and alternative-media coverage, and Olympic archives, is the backbone for this story of activists fighting against the odds and embracing the transformative politics of democratic socialism.
