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

by Pauschinger, Dennis

• ISBN13: 9780192848055
• ISBN10: 0192848054
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780192664013
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2024-05-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography

Dennis Pauschinger, Co-Head of Legislative Planning in the Strategic Management Support, Swiss Federal Chancellery

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 this book whilst he was postdoc and associate researcher in the Institute of Geography at the University of Neuchatel. His work has been published in Security Dialogue, Environment and Planning C: Society and Space, Conflict and Society or Surveillance and Society. He currently works at the Swiss Federal Chancellery as co-coordinator of legislative planning and supports governmental briefings in the political fields of energy, environment, climate, spatial planning and sports policies.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Security1. Introduction2. Securing and Policing Sport Mega-Events3. An Olympic City at WarPart 2: Spectacle4. Planning and Imagining the Fortress5. The Permeable FortressPart 3: Camouflage6. Working at the Edge in the Police City7. Security of Camouflage8. Non/Material Legacies9. ConclusionsAppendix: A Note on Methodology