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Balancing local and global security leitmotifs : counter-terrorism and the spectacle of sporting mega-events
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Fussey, Peter and Coaffee, Jon (2012) Balancing local and global security leitmotifs : counter-terrorism and the spectacle of sporting mega-events. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Volume 47 (Number 3). pp. 268-285. doi:10.1177/1012690211433451 ISSN 1012-6902.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1012690211433451
Abstract
This article considers the transferability of sporting mega-event strategies across time and place. In doing so, it presents a number of arguments highlighting the progressive global standardization of sporting mega-event counter-terrorism strategies comprising continually reproduced security leitmotifs. Such orthodoxies are drawn from a range of experiences at both sporting and non-sporting mega-events. By contrast to these globalized models, the terrorist threats they seek to counter are almost always rooted in diverse local settings. This convergence of sporting mega-event counter-terrorism strategies does not simply represent an uncritical imposition of an external framework of security, however. Instead, this article identifies and interrogates how sporting mega-event security planning is also tempered by a range of localized processes, including vernacular cultures of security and the scale of extant security infrastructures.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | International Review for the Sociology of Sport | ||||
Publisher: | Sage | ||||
ISSN: | 1012-6902 | ||||
Official Date: | 16 February 2012 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 47 | ||||
Number: | Number 3 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 268-285 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1177/1012690211433451 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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