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Security Games: Surveillance and Control at MegaEvents (Glasshouse Book),Used
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Security Games: Surveillance and Control at MegaEvents addresses the impact of megaevents such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup on wider practices of security and surveillance. "MegaEvents" pose peculiar and extensive security challenges. The overwhelming imperative is that "nothing should go wrong." There are, however, an almost infinite number of things that can "go wrong"; producing the perceived need for preemptive risk assessments, and an expanding range of security measures, including extensive forms and levels of surveillance. These measures are delivered by a "security/industrial complex" consisting of powerful transnational corporate, governmental and military actors, eager to showcase the latest technologies and prove that they can deliver "spectacular levels of security".Megaevents have thus become occasions for experiments in monitoring people and places. And, as such, they have become important moments in the development and dispersal of surveillance, as the infrastructure established for megaevents are often marketed as security solutions for the more routine monitoring of people and place. Megaevents, then, now serve as focal points for the proliferation of security and surveillance. They are microcosms of larger trends and processes, through which as the contributors to this volume demonstrate we can observe the complex ways that security and surveillance are now implicated in unique confluences of technology, institutional motivations, and publicprivate security arrangements. As the exceptional conditions of the megaevent become the norm, Security Games: Surveillance and Control at MegaEvents therefore provides the glimpse of a possible future that is more intensively and extensively monitored.
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