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The Geo-Historical Legacies of Urban Security Governance and the Vancouver 2010 Olympics

2013; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.2139/ssrn.2251531

1556-5068

Ádám Molnár,

Sport and Mega-Event Impacts

International sporting events such as the Olympics and FIFA World Cup have the capacity to affect entire economies, democratic regimes, juridical structures, urban architectures, organizational forms and capacities, as well as political communities (Roche, 2000). This is particularly the case in the areas of security, surveillance and policing where vast capital expenditures catalyze a range of dramatic shifts in urban governance and security (Giulianotti and Klauser, 2011). One of these shifts involves the blending of security, policing, military, and public safety agencies through "mission-based" initiatives, which are distinguished by intensified interoperability across public safety institutions and the modes and jurisdictions through which they have traditionally operated. At major events, mission based initiatives have become the primary strategic-organizational means through which conventional Westphalian articulations of territorial space, borders, security and policing institutions, and the regulation of urban spaces more generally, are being rearticulated (Graham, 2010).