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The discourse of Olympic security 2012 : London 2012

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MacDonald, Malcolm and Hunter, Duncan (2013) The discourse of Olympic security 2012 : London 2012. Discourse and Society, Volume 24 (Number 1). pp. 66-88. doi:10.1177/0957926512474148 ISSN 1460-3624.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957926512474148

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Abstract

This paper uses a combination of CDA and CL to investigate the discursive realization of the security operation for the 2012 London Olympic Games. Drawing on Didier Bigo’s (2008) conceptualisation of the ‘banopticon’, it address two questions: what distinctive
linguistic features are used in documents relating to security for London 2012; and, how is Olympic security realized as a discursive practice in these documents? Findings suggest that the documents indeed realized key banoptic features of the banopticon: exceptionalism, exclusion and prediction, as well as what we call ‘pedagogisation’. Claims were made for the
exceptional scale of the Olympic events; predictive technologies were proposed to assess the
threat from terrorism; and documentary evidence suggests that access to Olympic venues
was being constituted to resemble transit through national boundaries

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure
J Political Science > JZ International relations
P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Olympic Games (30th : 2012 : London, England) -- Security measures, Olympics -- Planning, Government publications, Discourse analysis
Journal or Publication Title: Discourse and Society
Publisher: Sage
ISSN: 1460-3624
Official Date: January 2013
Dates:
DateEvent
January 2013Published
Volume: Volume 24
Number: Number 1
Number of Pages: 36
Page Range: pp. 66-88
DOI: 10.1177/0957926512474148
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 23 December 2015
Date of first compliant Open Access: 23 December 2015

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