Surveilling and Securing the Olympics

Vida Bajc is Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology at Flagler College, USA, and co-editor (with Willem de Lint) of Security and Everyday Life.

“Bajc’s edited collection, Surveilling and Securing the Olympics, provides a series of critical insights into the complex relationships between sports organisations, the government and military arms of the state, business interests, the media, spectators and the general public. … this text offers much to an under-researched and under-theorised field of research that is rapidly gaining the attention of academics and policymakers alike.” (Neil King, International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, Vol. 8 (4), 2016)

• PART I: PROLOGUE Prologue. Olympic Surveillance as a Prelude to Securitization; Don Handelman.- PART II: INTRODUCTION 1. The Olympic Games as Complex Planned Event: Between Uncertainty and Order Through Security Meta-Ritual; Vida Bajc 2. On Security and Surveillance in the Olympics: A View from Inside the Tent; Richard Pound.- PART III: CASE STUDIES 3. Modernity and the Carnivalesque (Tokyo 1964); Christian Tagsold 4. Repression of Protest and the Image of Progress (Mexico City 1968); Kevin B. Witherspoon 5. Fear of Radical Movements and Policing the Enemy Within (Sapporo 1972); Kiyoshi Abe 6. "The Most Beautiful Olympic Games that Were Ever Destroyed" (Munich 1972); Jørn Hansen 7. "The Army's Presence Will Be Obvious" (Montreal 1976); Bruce Kidd 8. "To Guarantee Security and Protect Social Order" (Moscow 1980); Carol Marmor-Drews 9. Cross-National Intelligence Cooperation and Centralized Security Control System (Seoul 1988); Gwang Ok and Kyoung Ho Park 10. Platform for Local Political Expression and Resolution (Barcelona 1992); Stephen Essex 11. Audience-Spectator-Performer Interactions (Lillehammer 1994); Ingrid Rudie 12. National Special Security Event (Salt Lake City 2002); Sean P. Varano, George Burruss, Jr. and Scott H. Decker 13. Asymmetric Power Relations (Athens 2004); Anastassia Tsoukala 14. The Spatialities of Security and Control (Turin 2006); Alberto Vanolo 15. People's Olympics? (Beijing 2008); Gladys Pak Lei Chong, Jeroen de Kloet and Zeng Guohua 16. Promoting 'Civility', Excluding the Poor (Vancouver 2010); Jacqueline Kennelly 17. Public-Private Global Security Assemblages (London 2012); Joseph R. Bongiovi.