Article: Surveillance in Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008: A Comparison of the Olympic Surveillance Modalities and Legacies in Two Different Olympic Host Regimes
Just published: Minas Samatas (University of Crete), "Surveillance in Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008: A Comparison of the Olympic Surveillance Modalities and Legacies in Two Different Olympic Host Regimes" ("Urban Studies", 48 [15], November 2011: pp. 3347-66).
Quote: "All post-9/11 Olympic Games and sport mega events deploy super-surveillance systems, as a future security investment, albeit at the expense of rights and freedoms. This paper compares the Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 Olympic Games' surveillance systems, to assess their authoritarian effects and legacies in democratic and authoritarian Olympic host regimes. ... It is also argued that these surveillance systems have an emerging anti-democratic legacy which stretches beyond the hosting of the Olympics."
This article forms part of a journal special issue on "Security and Surveillance at Sport Mega Events".
Just published: Minas Samatas (University of Crete), "Surveillance in Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008: A Comparison of the Olympic Surveillance Modalities and Legacies in Two Different Olympic Host Regimes" ("Urban Studies", 48 [15], November 2011: pp. 3347-66).
Quote: "All post-9/11 Olympic Games and sport mega events deploy super-surveillance systems, as a future security investment, albeit at the expense of rights and freedoms. This paper compares the Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 Olympic Games' surveillance systems, to assess their authoritarian effects and legacies in democratic and authoritarian Olympic host regimes. ... It is also argued that these surveillance systems have an emerging anti-democratic legacy which stretches beyond the hosting of the Olympics."
This article forms part of a journal special issue on "Security and Surveillance at Sport Mega Events".
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