Kicking
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Practices
ISBN-10
147803890X
ISBN-13
9781478038900
Publisher
Duke University Press
Imprint
Duke University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 5th, 2026
Print length
174 Pages
Weight
176 grams
Dimensions
17.60 x 12.70 x 1.50 cms
Ksh 2,350.00
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Former professional soccer player Jules Boykoff draws on his lifetime of athletic experience to reflect on the practice of kicking. With short vignettes blending the personal, reflective, historical, and analytical, Kicking is uniquely positioned to reflect on the beautiful game and its politics.
As a poet, public-facing scholar of sports politics, and former professional soccer player, having represented the United States on the men’s U23 national soccer team, Jules Boykoff draws on his lifetime of athletic experience to reflect on the practice of kicking. With short vignettes blending the personal, the reflective, the historical, and the analytical, Kicking is uniquely positioned to reflect on the most popular sport in the world. From the act of kicking a soccer ball, Boykoff looks outward to his own family history, including his mother’s struggle with polio, which fed her insistence on his athleticism; to broader trends like greenwashing and sportwashing; and to reflections on sport’s toxic masculinity, the poetics of on-field revenge, and the power-politics of both the men’s and women’s World Cups. Kicking is a must-read for all those who love the beautiful game.
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