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Global Sport Business Journal

Abstract

Editor Russell Field, through Winters of Discontent: The Winter Olympics and a Half Century of Protest and Resistance, offers the first focused academic inquiry into the myriad ways that individuals, organizations, and communities have resisted these sport mega-events. More specifically, each chapter contributor “chronicles the ways in which the issues raised by anti-Olympic advocates have increasingly become part of a mainstream discourse” (Field, 2025, p. 5). Various core themes run through the book including concern over public spending amid rising neoliberalism, the contested relationship between Indigenous self-determination and settler colonial domination, balancing local community priorities against the backdrop of Games-related development, growing civic discontent with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and fighting to maintain protections for environmentally significant lands (e.g., national parks)—all occurring within “the context of a rapidly deteriorating climate” (Field, 2025, p. 5). The quality, clarity, and criticality of these conversations mean this book will be of interest to a wide range of readers including sports enthusiasts and those interested in protest, resistance, environmentalism, politics, economics, Indigenous rights and self-determination, and social justice.

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