Ensuring Safety at Australian Sport Event Precincts

Taylor, Tracy; Toohey, Kristine

doi:10.1177/0042098011422393

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“…In his attention to image, Gaffney contributes to a strand of mega-events literature that focuses on 'staged cities' , or the superficial representation of host cities where poverty is concealed and a constructed image of so-called development is the at the fore (Broudehoux 2015;Greene 2003). This includes work on place branding and the interconnected invisibility of those ignored by elite-led strategies (Vanolo 2017) and the processes of clearing urban environments of 'undesirable elements' in the run-up to a mega-event (Kennelly 2015;Kennelly and Watt 2011;Broudehoux 2017;Schausteck de Almeida et al 2015;Taylor and Toohey 2011).…”

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The urban and economic impacts of mega-events: mechanisms of change in global games

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Mega-events are global affairs with profound effects across a variety of scales, and are the focus of a large and growing body of academic inquiry. This special section in Sports in Society centers on the urban and economic impacts of mega-events on the societies that host them, offering an examination of individual cases and emerging patterns. The authors explore different dimensions of the recent mega-event experience from around the world, proposing novel ways of theorizing these outsized expressions of transnational sport, politics, commerce, and culture. Combined, these contributions unpack how socio-economic and cultural contexts shape the organization of events and impact hosts in variegated and contingent ways in the Global North, South, and East. This introduction offers a brief overview of the landscape of the existing research before summarizing each contribution and placing them in context within the broader literature. All told, the articles in this special section explore how the Olympics, the FIFA Men's World Cup and the Commonwealth Games deploy different mechanisms to transform urban space, and offer innovative means of understanding what megaevents can do to the people and places that host them. Introduction: from mega-events to giga-eventsWith great fanfare, a man pulls a card from an envelope and reveals the name of a host: 'The winner is…' . Some people in the audience -and around the world -leap from their seats, cheering in triumph. Others applaud politely or are crestfallen. Transnational business plans worth billions of dollars in construction, broadcast media, and sponsorships start heating up. Elsewhere, the newly christened host begins preparations through costly, sometimes controversial, and transformative urban development plans. And within that host city, in a growing hailstorm of media attention, residents pursue their daily lives in the context of these changes. Some of them anticipate the celebrations, catching the waves of increasing excitement. Others ignore it or profess not to care, while still others plan acts of protest and resistance. Nonetheless, excited or not, all these people will be affected to a certain extent. These are patterns seen worldwide when conducting the Olympics, the

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“…Analysis of the article content with the relevant categories "state", "health", and "education" shows that these publications are devoted to political (organizational and administrative), and police measures in the area of public security connected with health protection [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]; food security [26][27][28]; protection from threats and violence in educational sphere [29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40]; urban security [41][42][43][44][45][46][47]; and protection from crime and terrorism [48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55]. These life spheres and human behavior are evaluated for external risks and physical threats with preventive or reactive impacts on the environment and social relations being the factors and tools of protection from them.…”

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Security or Safety: Quantitative and Comparative Analysis of Usage in Research Works Published in 2004–2019

Bubnovskaia

Leonidova

Lysova

2019

Behavioral Sciences

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This article is devoted to the statistical analysis of security and safety frequency in the context of categories connected with social institutions and personality features in research works from 2004–2019. Research was based on the following methods: quantitative analysis of safety frequency in the context with coded “categories” related to social institutions and personality features; analysis was conducted with computer-assisted content analysis QDA Miner Lite v. 1.4 and Fisher’s F-test. An analysis of 1157 works showed that the terms “security” and “safety” were quantitatively more frequent when used with concepts related to social institutions than with concepts related to personality features. In our opinion, this qualitative trend shows the prevailing significance of social aspects of security over its personal (psychological) traits for research analysis and practical social aspects. The priority usage of the terms “security” and “safety” can be related to the securitization of society, (i.e., to the increased role and significance of social ways of providing security and protection from threats), primarily with the help of external law-enforcing actors such as the state, police, and army. Securitization counterweights the development of social and psychological mechanisms of security—developing motivation for safe behavior, personal self-regulation, and self-production of security as an internal feeling of protection.

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“…Boykoff (2014) makes use of interviews with activists in order to explore dissent at the Olympics, and Alegi (2007) draws on interviews to understand the policy decisions behind Cape Town's controversial Green Point stadium. Other analyses use interviews to grasp the implications of creating securitized spaces through mega-events (Taylor and Toohey 2011), and to unpack some of the rationales behind hosting the event (Bolsmann and Brewster 2009). Finally, mega-events are enmeshed in geopolitics, used by nations as a platform to convey messages and project power at multiple scales to different audiences.…”

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Scrutinizing Global Mega-Events

Gaffney¹,

Wolfe²,

Müller³

2017

Doing Global Urban Research

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The importance of global mega-events researchOver the past 20 years, mega-events -such as the Olympic Games or the Football World Cup -have become a global urban force. For many cities, hosting a mega-event propels historically large interventions in urban development, remodelling both urban politics and the built environment in the course of a few years. The Olympic Games and the Football World Cup have, in this sense, become urban events more than sporting events.The capital cost of material interventions into the city -upgrading or building new sports venues, roads, railway lines, airports, communication centres, security systems, and hotelsis now several times the operational cost of putting on the event itself. The Russian city of Sochi spent more than USD 50 billion on infrastructure in preparation for the 2014 Winter Games, compared to less than USD 5 billion of operational expenses (Müller 2014). Some scholars see the degree of urban transformation as one of the key distinction between events and mega-events. Hiller (2000, 183), for example, suggests that a mega-event significantly alters the urban fabric and reprioritises the urban agenda.It is no exaggeration to claim that, over the past two decades, the urban impacts of megaevents have become global. Whereas cities in North America, Western Europe, and Japan

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Ensuring Safety at Australian Sport Event Precincts

Cited by 25 publications

References 28 publications

The urban and economic impacts of mega-events: mechanisms of change in global games

The urban and economic impacts of mega-events: mechanisms of change in global games

Security or Safety: Quantitative and Comparative Analysis of Usage in Research Works Published in 2004–2019

Scrutinizing Global Mega-Events

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