Surveilling and Securing the Olympics (eBook)

From Tokyo 1964 to London 2012 and Beyond

Vida Bajc (Herausgeber)

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2016
XXVI, 420 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-29069-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This book analyses the relationship between the Olympic Games, with its ethos of openness and collectivism, and the security concerns and surveillance technologies that are becoming increasingly prevalent in the organisation of public events.

Kiyoshi Abe Vida Bajc, Methodist University, USA Joseph R. Bongiovi George Burruss, Jr. Gladys Pak Lei Chong Scott H. Decker Stephen Essex, Plymouth University, UK Zeng Guohua Don Handelman, Hebrew University, Israel Jørn Hansen, University of Southern Denmark Jacqueline Kennelly, Carleton University, Canada Bruce Kidd, University of Toronto, Canada Jeroen de Kloet, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Carol Marmor-Drews, University Passau, Germany Gwang Ok, Chungbuk National University, South Korea Kyoung Ho Park, Jeju National University, South Korea Richard Pound Ingrid Rudie Christian Tagsold, Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf Anastassia Tsoukala, University of Paris XI, France Alberto Vanolo, University of Turin, Italy Sean P. Varano Kevin B. Witherspoon

Autor

Vida Bajc is Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology at Flagler College, USA, and co-editor (with Willem de Lint) of Security and Everyday Life.

Inhalt

PART I: PROLOGUEPrologue. Olympic Surveillance as a Prelude to Securitization; Don Handelman PART II: INTRODUCTION1. The Olympic Games as Complex Planned Event: Between Uncertainty and Order Through Security Meta-Ritual; Vida Bajc 2. On Security and Surveillance in the Olympics: A View from Inside the Tent; Richard Pound PART III: CASE STUDIES3. Modernity and the Carnivalesque (Tokyo 1964); Christian Tagsold4. Repression of Protest and the Image of Progress (Mexico City 1968); Kevin B. Witherspoon5. Fear of Radical Movements and Policing the Enemy Within (Sapporo 1972); Kiyoshi Abe6. "The Most Beautiful Olympic Games that Were Ever Destroyed" (Munich 1972); Jørn Hansen7. "The Army's Presence Will Be Obvious" (Montreal 1976); Bruce Kidd8. "To Guarantee Security and Protect Social Order" (Moscow 1980); Carol Marmor-Drews9. Cross-National Intelligence Cooperation and Centralized Security Control System (Seoul 1988); Gwang Ok and Kyoung Ho Park10. Platform for Local Political Expression and Resolution (Barcelona 1992); Stephen Essex11. Audience-Spectator-Performer Interactions (Lillehammer 1994); Ingrid Rudie12. National Special Security Event (Salt Lake City 2002); Sean P. Varano, George Burruss, Jr. and Scott H. Decker13. Asymmetric Power Relations (Athens 2004); Anastassia Tsoukala14. The Spatialities of Security and Control (Turin 2006); Alberto Vanolo15. People's Olympics? (Beijing 2008); Gladys Pak Lei Chong, Jeroen de Kloet and Zeng Guohua16. Promoting 'Civility', Excluding the Poor (Vancouver 2010); Jacqueline Kennelly17. Public-Private Global Security Assemblages (London 2012); Joseph R. Bongiovi

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.4.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security
• Reihe/Serie: Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security
• Zusatzinfo: XXVI, 420 p.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Anthropology • Athens • Barcelona • Beijing • Crime • Criminology • Governance • International Relations • London • mega-events • Olympics • Protest • security • Social Science • Sociology • Sports • Surveillance • Vancouver
• ISBN-10: 1-137-29069-2 / 1137290692
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-29069-4 / 9781137290694