Chapter 8 - Gran Torino: Social and security implications of the XX Winter Olympic Games

Fonio, Chiara; Pisapia, Giovanni

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“…Although a lack of truly empirical and comparative work in this field of research persists, these investigations allow for an initial understanding of the importance of urban space as the locus, medium and tool of mega event security, and of its wider socio-spatial implications. Studied examples include the 2004 Athens Olympics (Samatas, 2007), the 2006 Turin (Fonio and Pisapia, 2011), the 2008 Beijing (Yu et al ., 2009) the 2010 Vancouver (Boyle and Haggerty, 2009) and the 2012 London Games (Fussey and Coaffee, 2011; Fussey et al ., 2011); as well as the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany (Klauser, 2008a, 2008b; Eick, 2011; Baasch, 2011) and the 2008 European Football Championships 2008 (Hagemann, 2010; Klauser, 2011). This fourth field of research into sport mega events provides the most obvious location for the papers presented here, although readers will recognise the significance of the other three domains for our contributors.…”

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“…); the socio‐cultural‐political and economic impact of individual sport mega‐events in specific urban settings (Samatas ; Klauser ; Yu et al . ; Fonio and Pisapia ; Boyle and Haggerty ).…”

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Security, surveillance and geographical patterns at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in Johannesburg

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Pisapia

2014

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This paper analyses the 2010 FIFA World Cup that took place in South Africa by focusing on both security and surveillance dynamics and spatial implications in the city of Johannesburg. While securitisation dynamics and socio-political legacies have been explored by a substantial body of literature, the activities of the law-enforcement agencies in a specific urban setting, distinctive geographical patterns and aspects of security governance in South Africa seem to be more fragmented. In this contribution we argue that the tournament represents an important shift in FIFA security governance, namely a shift from reactive patterns of security provisions to more proactive policing approaches. Additionally, we shed light on power dynamics and on trends of securitisation of the urban space, such as the reliance on technology-based policing which resulted in the implementation of surveillance tools. Symbolic implications and spatial patterns are also discussed with an emphasis on either facility developments or on controversial event-driven projects. Overall, we contend that despite delivering a safe tournament and reducing crime rates, further investigation is needed to assess surveillance technologies both from a cost-benefit analysis and from socioethical implications, i.e. the stigmatisation of certain social groups. However, we also argue that inclusionary aspects in relation to event-driven impositions should be taken into account in the literature on mega-events in the global South.

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Chapter 8 - Gran Torino: Social and security implications of the XX Winter Olympic Games

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Security, surveillance and geographical patterns at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in Johannesburg

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