Former ICWA fellow Shannon Sims has just published an article in CityLab titled: “How Bostonians Defeated the Olympics.”  The piece discusses how the citizens of Boston overturned the city’s nomination to be the US bid location for the Olympic Games, and the reasoning behind that movement from the perspectives of observers and participants.

 

You can read the article here!  Shannon Sims is also a leading expert on Brazil, click here to read her recent article on tumultuous situation in Brazilian politics  in The Washington Post.