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100 1 $aBoykoff, Jules,$eauthor.
245 10 $aNOlympians :$binside the fight against capitalist mega-sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo & beyond /$cJules Boykoff.
246 3 $aNo Olympians
264 1 $aHalifax ;$aWinnipeg :$bFernwood Publishing,$c[2020]
264 4 $c©2020
300 $aix, 198 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 182-189) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- The Path Forward -- 1. Activism and the games: Facts, fictions, histories -- Capitalism and the Olympics -- Problems with the Olympics -- Fightback against the Olympics -- Resurgent activism, reenergized socialism -- 2. LA28, DSA-Los Angeles, and the NOlympics LA campaign -- Breakneck boosterism -- 1984: Myths and realities -- DSA-LA and anti-capitalism -- Capitalism and its critics -- 3. NOlympics LA hits its stride: Fighting the Olympic machine -- Five-ring corruption -- Enter democratic socialism -- Inside-outside strategy -- Olympics/non-Olympics strategy -- A movement of movements? -- Assessing "Staying power" -- 4. End games -- Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics -- Reforming the Olympics -- Jettison Beijing 2022 -- Transnational activism and athlete activists -- The 2020 conjuncture.
520 $a"NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beyond investigates the intersection of the global rise of anti-Olympics activism and the declining popularity of hosting of the Games. The Olympics were once buoyed by myths of luminous prosperity and upticks in tourism and jobs, but in recent years these assurances have been debunked. Now more than ever, it's clear that the Olympics have transmogrified into a political-economic juggernaut that arrives with displacement, expanded policing, and anti-democratic backroom deals. Jules Boykoff - a former professional soccer player who represented the US Olympic soccer team - zooms in on Los Angeles, where the Democratic Socialists of America have launched the NOlympics LA campaign ahead of the 2028 Summer Games. Boykoff shows how DSA-LA's anti-Olympics activism fits with the resurgence of socialism in the US and beyond. Boykoff's research, based on more than 100 interviews with anti-Olympics activists, personal experiences at protests in Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, London, and Tokyo, academic research, mass- and alternative-media coverage, and Olympic archives, is the backbone for this story of activists fighting against the odds and embracing the transformative politics of democratic socialism."--$cProvided by publisher.
530 $aIssued also in electronic formats.
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