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Security games : surveillance and control at mega-events / edited by Colin J. Bennett and Kevin D. Haggarty.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- A GlassHouse book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crowd control--Case studies.
- Crowd control.
- Spectator control--Case studies.
- Spectator control.
- Security systems--Case studies.
- Security systems.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events addresses the impact of mega-events - such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup - on wider practices of security and surveillance. ""Mega-Events"" pose peculiar and extensive security challenges. The overwhelming imperative is that ""nothing should go wrong."" There are, however, an almost infinite number of things that can ""go wrong""; producing the perceived need for pre-emptive risk assessments, and an expanding range of security measures, including extensive forms and levels of surveillance. These measures are delivered
- Contents:
- Security Games Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of contributors; Introduction Security games : surveillance and control at mega-events; Chapter 1 Rethinking security at the Olympics; Chapter 2 Olympic rings of steel Constructing security for 2012 and beyond; Chapter 3 Surveilling the 2004 Athens Olympics in the aftermath of 9/11 International pressures and domestic implications; Chapter 4 The spectacle of fear Anxious mega-events and contradictions of contemporary Japanese governmentality; Chapter 5 "Secure Our Profits!" The FIFATM in Germany 2006
- Chapter 6 Event-driven security policies and spatial control The 2006 FIFA World CupChapter 7 Commonalities and specificities in mega-event securitization The example of Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland; Chapter 8 Gran Torino Social and security implications of the XX Winter Olympic Games; Chapter 9 Mega-events and mega-profits Unravelling the Vancouver 2010 security-development nexus; Chapter 10 Knowledge networks Mega-events and security expertise; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-43520-9
- 9786613435200
- 1-136-80158-8
- 0-203-82747-3
- 9780203827475
- OCLC:
- 773564584
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