Jules Boykoff

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. [ [http://www.pacificu.edu/offices/hr/spotlight/index.cfm?spotid=13 Error Occurred While Processing Request ] ]

Boykoff has appeared on various radio shows, including "Alternative Radio" [ [http://www.alternativeradio.org/programs/BOYJ001.shtml Alternative Radio : Jules Boykoff : Squelching Dissent ] ] , "Living on Earth" [ [http://www.loe.org/shows/shows.htm?programID=04-P13-00037 Living on Earth: September 10, 2004 ] ] , "CounterSpin" [ [http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2027 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on environmental coverage, Jules Boykoff on global warming ] ] , "The Thom Hartmann Program", and "Media Matters with Bob McChesney" [ [http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510034 Media Matters with Bob McChesney ] ] 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) [ [http://www.aerialedge.com/once_upon.html Jules Boykoff: Once Upon a Neoliberal Rocket Badge ] ] and his poem “Commandment #8” was named 2006 Sexiest Poem of the Year by Philadelphia poet CA Conrad. [ [http://sexiestpoemaward.blogspot.com/ Caconrad'S Annual Sexiest Poem Of The Year Award ] ] With his longtime partner Kaia Sand, who is also a poet, Boykoff runs The Tangent Reading Series in Portland, Oregon. [ [http://www.oregonlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/living/1164066939155070.xml&coll=7 OregonLive.com's Printer-Friendly Page ] ] [ [http://www.thetangentpress.org/readings.html The Tangent Occasional Reading Series ] ]

Common course topics taught by Boykoff include US politics, the politics of surveillance, mass-media and politics, and the politics of literature and poetry. [ [http://www.pacificu.edu/as/politics/faculty/jules-boykoff.cfm Jules Boykoff - Department of Politics & Government at Pacific University ] ] In November 2006, he spoke at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. [ [http://www.cicero.uio.no/webnews.asp?lang=en&id=10726 Panel debate: Communicating climate change - CICERO ] ] [ [http://www.oregonlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/living/1164066939155070.xml&coll=7 OregonLive.com's Printer-Friendly Page ] ] "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. [ [http://www.oregonlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/living/1164066939155070.xml&coll=7 OregonLive.com's Printer-Friendly Page ] ]

Boykoff is also co-editor of "The Tangent", a politics and art zine. [ [http://www.thetangentpress.org/zine.html zine ] ]

Recently a grassroots campaign has emerged to thrust Boykoff into the 2008 election. [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D4-Q6_5kUg YouTube - Boykoff '08 ] ] [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg9fz2f4Jrg YouTube - Boykoff '08 - Our Only Hope ] ]

elected 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, 2008.

* "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.

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.pacificu.edu/as/politics/faculty/jules-boykoff.cfm/ Pacific University Faculty Page]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D4-Q6_5kUg Boykoff '08 video ad]
* [http://www.pacificu.edu/magazine/2007/spring/qa-jules_boykoff.cfm/ Interview in Pacific Magazine]
* [http://www.thetangentpress.org/ Tangent Press]
* [http://www.oregonlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/living/1164066939155070.xml&coll=7/ Oregonian article]
* [http://herecomeseverybody.blogspot.com/2005/10/photograph-jules-boykoff-back-right-in.html Interview with Boykoff on poetry and art]
* [http://66.170.18.164/playlists/boykoff07.mp3 Download MP3 of Jules Boykoff Interviewed By Matthew Rothschild of The Progressive magazine]