Policing Sport Mega-Events: Security, Spectacle, and Camouflage in Rio de Janeiro

Author:   Dennis Pauschinger (Co-Head of Legislative Planning in the Strategic Management Support, Co-Head of Legislative Planning in the Strategic Management Support, Swiss Federal Chancellery)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780192848055


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   15 February 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Policing Sport Mega-Events: Security, Spectacle, and Camouflage in Rio de Janeiro


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Security has become one of the most important aspects of sport mega-event organisation. This book explores how Rio de Janeiro was imagined and transformed into a security fortress when the 2014 Men's World Cup and the 2016 Olympics came to the city and how the fortress was nonetheless permeable and porous. Dennis Pauschinger experienced exceptional backstage access at high level in the Brazilian mega-event security architecture as well as at street level with the local public security sphere. His ethnographic account takes us from the hidden world of surveillance and control centres, to the security perimeters around stadiums, and to the mundane routine of police officers during day and night shifts at local police stations or at the Special Forces' headquarters. This book shows how police officers' emotions and Special Forces' war narratives impact the static and technology-based security models at mega-events and how traditional patterns of police work, along lines of class and racial inequalities, still prevail and shape the city's public security. The book argues against the common narrative of the positive impacts of mega-event security legacies upon host cities by advancing towards a general understanding of how security governance is carried out in places where the use of digital security technologies co-exists with overly lethal and repressive forms of policing.

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Author:   Dennis Pauschinger (Co-Head of Legislative Planning in the Strategic Management Support, Co-Head of Legislative Planning in the Strategic Management Support, Swiss Federal Chancellery)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.70cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.504kg
ISBN:  

9780192848055


ISBN 10:   0192848054
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   15 February 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Dr Dennis Pauschinger holds a joint PhD from the Erasmus+ Doctorate in Cultural and Global Criminology programme at the universities of Kent and Hamburg. He wrote the majority of this book while he was postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of Geography at the University of Neucha^&tel. His work has been published in Security Dialogue, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Conflict and Society, Surveillance and Society and Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, among others. He also served as integration officer in professional football, and lived and worked several years in Brazil. He currently works at the Swiss Federal Chancellery in the domain of governmental strategic and political planning.

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