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

— —

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)

Policing Sport Mega-Events

Security, Spectacle, and Camouflage in Rio de Janeiro

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)

$212

Hardback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We then advise you accordingly. If the time taken to get any book is too long for you, you can let us know and we will cancel or adjust your order, and refund as required.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

Oxford University Press
15 February 2024

Police & security services; Law & society; Police procedures; Sporting events, tours & organisations

Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology

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.

By: 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)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 223mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 504g
ISBN: 9780192848055
ISBN 10: 0192848054
Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 15 February 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.