Sports mega-events have long been promoted as drivers of urban development, based on their potential to generate physical, economic, and social legacies for host cities (see reviews in Andranovich and Burbank 2011 ; Essex and Chalkley 1998
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The Permeable Olympic Fortress
Mega-Event Security as Camouflage in Rio de Janeiro
Dennis Pauschinger
sport mega-event by adopting globally standardized security measures to transform the city in a fortress. The Special Forces were scheduled for possible missions in the many favelas or mega-event-related operations. We engaged in a conversation about the
Introduction
Exceptionalism and Necropolitical Security Dynamics in Olympic Rio de Janeiro
Margit Ystanes and Tomas Salem
Mega-events and Securitization during the Pink Tide in Brazil When thinking back to the period when Rio de Janeiro prepared to host the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics, international audiences may remember images of military
Of Traiteurs and Tsars
Potel et Chabot and the Franco-Russian Alliance
Willa Z. Silverman
Between 1893 and 1901, the Parisian traiteur Potel et Chabot catered a series of gala meals celebrating the recent Franco-Russian alliance, which was heralded in France as ending its diplomatic isolation following the Franco-Prussian War. The firm was well adapted to the particularities of the unlikely alliance between Tsarist Russia and republican France. On the one hand, it represented a tradition of French luxury production, including haute cuisine, that the Third Republic was eager to promote. On the other, echoing the Republic’s championing of scientific and technological progress, it relied on innovative transportation and food conservation technologies, which it deployed spectacularly during a 1900 banquet for over twenty-two thousand French mayors, a modern “mega-event.” Culinary discourse therefore signaled, and palliated concerns about, the improbable nature of the alliance at the same time as it revealed important changes taking place in the catering profession.
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 95–115
Contemporary Megaprojects
An Introduction
Seth Schindler, Simin Fadaee, and Dan Brockington
economic contexts in order to understand its epistemic and economic merits and the challenges it poses. Multiple ethnographies of biomimetic projects would enable such critical encounter. John Lauermann shows how sports mega-events—which have long been
Racialized Governance
The Production and Destruction of Secure Spaces in Olympic Rio de Janeiro
Margit Ystanes and Alexandre Magalhães
security governance builds on this articulation. Such racialized governance has long historical roots in Rio, and the city administration drew heavily on this legacy during the recent mega-event preparations. Mayor Eduardo Paes (2009–2017) framed the
Guarding the Body
Private Security Work in Rio de Janeiro
Erika Robb Larkins
venues, hotels, and World Cup or Olympic stadiums. With preparations for the mega-events, the industry began to shift to models of security that were more acceptable globally. As one foreign security consultant put it, “No one wants to watch a soccer
The “Mangle” of Human Practice
Museu do Amanhã’s Artistic Staging as a Socioscientific Narrative on Climate Change
Rodanthi Tzanelli
, Mega-Events as Economies of the Imagination: Creating Atmospheres for Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017), 85. 3 Ibid., 69. 4 John Lennon and Malcolm Foley, Dark Tourism (London: Continuum, 2000), 1–12. 5 Karrie Jacobs
Imagining Futures of Energy
Views from Central Asia
Markus S. Schulz
Like any mega event, World Expo 2017 has immediate and longer-term impacts. Obviously, construction businesses profited from large-scale contracts, while the event itself helped boost tourist services by 78 percent. 12 Media coverage of the expo
“Avoiding the mistakes of the past”
Tower block failure discourse and economies of risk management in London's Olympic Park
Saffron Woodcraft
not directly engage with literature about the politics of mega-events or the emerging outcomes of legacy regeneration in East London. Analyzing the social and economic benefits of Olympic Games is a field of scholarship in its own right ( Baade and
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