Surveilling and Securing the Olympics: From Tokyo 1964 to London 2012 and Beyond

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Prologue: Olympic Surveillance as a Prelude to Securitization....Pages 3-20
The Olympic Games as Complex Planned Event: Between Uncertainty and Order Through Security Meta-ritual....Pages 21-71
On Security and Surveillance in the Olympics: A View from Inside the Tent....Pages 72-92
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Modernity and the Carnivalesque (Tokyo 1964)....Pages 95-109
Repression of Protest and the Image of Progress (Mexico City 1968)....Pages 110-125
Fear of Radical Movements and Policing the Enemy Within (Sapporo 1972)....Pages 126-143
“The Most Beautiful Olympic Games That Were Ever Destroyed” (Munich 1972)....Pages 144-161
“The Army’s Presence Will Be Obvious” (Montreal 1976)....Pages 162-179
“To Guarantee Security and Protect Social Order” (Moscow 1980)....Pages 180-200
Cross-National Intelligence Cooperation and Centralized Security Control System (Seoul 1988)....Pages 201-217
Platform for Local Political Expression and Resolution (Barcelona 1992)....Pages 218-237
Rupturing Performer-Spectator Interaction....Pages 238-255
National Special Security Event (Salt Lake City 2002)....Pages 256-274
Asymmetric Power Relations (Athens 2004)....Pages 275-296
Spatialities of Control (Turin 2006)....Pages 297-318
People’s Olympics? (Beijing 2008)....Pages 319-343
Promoting “Civility,” Excluding the Poor (Vancouver 2010)....Pages 344-358
Public-Private Global Security Assemblages (London 2012)....Pages 359-380
Front Matter....Pages 381-381
Olympic Dilemmas: Surveillance, Security, Democracy....Pages 383-398
Back Matter....Pages 399-420