Jules Boykoff
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Jules Boykoff (born September 11, 1970) is a professor and author. His research areas include social movements, the suppression of dissent, and the role of the mass media in US politics, especially regarding coverage of climate change issues. He is currently an assistant professor of Politics and Government at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, where, in 2007, students selected him as recipient of the Trombley Award for teaching excellence. He also held a visiting professor position at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington during the 2004-2005 school year.[1]
Boykoff has appeared on various radio shows, including Alternative Radio[2], Living on Earth[3], CounterSpin[4], The Thom Hartmann Program, and Media Matters with Bob McChesney[5] to discuss the intersection of politics, the media, and global warming. He is the author of two books on the suppression of dissent: Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States (AK Press, 2007) and The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social Movements (Routledge, 2006).
Boykoff is also a published poet. He is the author of Once upon a Neoliberal Rocket Badge (Edge Books, 2006)[6] and his poem “Commandment #8” was named 2006 Sexiest Poem of the Year by Philadelphia poet CA Conrad.[7] With his longtime partner Kaia Sand, who is also a poet, Boykoff runs The Tangent Reading Series in Portland, Oregon.[8][9]
Common course topics taught by Boykoff include US politics, the politics of surveillance, mass-media and politics, and the politics of literature and poetry.[10] In November 2006, he spoke at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Nairobi, Kenya.[11][12] In An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore mentioned work Boykoff co-authored with his brother Maxwell Boykoff (Oxford University, Environmental Change Institute) on U.S. media coverage of global warming. [13]
Boykoff is also co-editor of The Tangent, a politics and art zine.[14]
Recently a grassroots campaign has emerged to thrust Boykoff into the 2008 election. [15][16]
[edit] Selected Publications
Books
- Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States, AK Press, forthcoming 2007.
- Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry & Public Space, co-authored with Kaia Sand, Palm Press, forthcoming 2007.
- The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social Movements, Routledge, 2006.
- Once Upon a Neoliberal Rocket Badge, Edge Books, 2006. (poetry)
Recent Scholarly Publications
- "Limiting Dissent: The Mechanisms of State Repression in the United States" Social Movement Studies, forthcoming.
- "Surveillance, Spatial Compression, and Scale: The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr." Antipode, forthcoming.
- "Climate Change and Journalistic Norms: A Case Study of U.S. Mass-Media Coverage" (with Maxwell Boykoff). Geoforum, forthcoming.
- "Dissent" Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, forthcoming.
- "Framing Dissent: Mass Media Coverage of the Global Justice Movement" New Political Science Vol. 28, No. 2 (June 2006): 201-228.
- "Balance as Bias: Global Warming and the U.S. Prestige Press" (with Maxwell Boykoff). Global Environmental Change Vol. 15: No. 2 (July 2004): 125-136.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Error Occurred While Processing Request
- ^ Alternative Radio : Jules Boykoff : Squelching Dissent
- ^ Living on Earth: September 10, 2004
- ^ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on environmental coverage, Jules Boykoff on global warming
- ^ Media Matters with Bob McChesney
- ^ Jules Boykoff: Once Upon a Neoliberal Rocket Badge
- ^ Caconrad'S Annual Sexiest Poem Of The Year Award
- ^ OregonLive.com's Printer-Friendly Page
- ^ The Tangent Occasional Reading Series
- ^ Jules Boykoff - Department of Politics & Government at Pacific University
- ^ Panel debate: Communicating climate change - CICERO
- ^ OregonLive.com's Printer-Friendly Page
- ^ OregonLive.com's Printer-Friendly Page
- ^ zine
- ^ YouTube - Boykoff '08
- ^ YouTube - Boykoff '08 - Our Only Hope
