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Governing Security at the 2008 Beijing Olympics

The International Journal of the History of Sport, 2009

As sports mega-events (SMEs) attract growing worldwide attention, the security aspect of these events has assumed greater global importance, especially in the post-9/11 antiterrorism context. The 2008 Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad set security concern as a top priority. This paper analyses the empirical data derived from fieldwork in Beijing in early 2008 as well as information gathered from official documents and media articles. It presents the types of forces and agencies which shaped the Olympic security plan and explains how the Chinese government integrated its preventive, engaging and repressive strategies. The paper advances a number of preliminary arguments in connection with four main developments at work within the current dynamics of security governance at SMEs: the globalization, technologization, commercialization and standardization of SMEs' securitization.

A Tough Challenge For Beijing: Hong Kong Demonstrations

Hong Kong Demonstrations, 2019

Harsh demonstrations in the following months in Hong Kong are still indicating high stakes for Beijing administration. Despite Hong Kong Government's withdrawal of extradition bill, massive protests has been taking place in the streets of the city. On the other hand, there are numerous national and international reflections of the protests and possible intervention of China toward Hong Kong and the consequences should be taken in the hand comprehensively.

Owning the Olympics: narratives of the new China

2008

ISBN–13: 978–0–472–07032–9 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN–10: 0–472–07032–0 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN–13: 978–0–472–05032–1 (paper: alk. paper) ISBN–10: 0–472–05032–X (paper: alk. paper) ISBN–13: 978–0–472–02450–6 (electronic)

(Re)Framing of protest at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 2012

Previous research has shown that the organization of the Olympic Games has had a negative impact on the civil liberties of host communities, including the suppression of the right to peaceful protest (Lenskyj 2002: The best Olympics ever? Social impacts of Sydney 2000. Albany: State University of New York Press). The purpose of this research was to examine how individuals participating in anti-Olympic events (re)framed the right to public protest during the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. The theoretical framework drew on the concepts of institutional logics and framing processes from the organizational studies and the social movement theory literatures (McAdam and Scott 2005: Organizations and movements. In: G.F. Davis, D. McAdam, W.R. Scott, and M.N. Zald, eds. Social movements and organization theory. Cambridge University Press, 4-40). The first step involved a document analysis to determine how Olympic organizers were officially framing the right to public protest. The findings revealed they were operating under three major logics of Olympism, security and sport and nationalism, which framed protestors in ways to limit their influence. In addition, one-on-one interviews were conducted with Olympic protestors along with an analysis of their related documents. Protest participants reframed dominant logics by utilizing civil liberties and corporatization as counter-logics. The findings suggest that the dominant logics of the Olympic Games maintained long-term power and control and effectively delegitimized the voices of Olympic protestors, but protestors exerted their agency through reframing processes. The policy implications for future Olympic bid and host city organizers are to consider how civil liberties and the right to peaceful protest can be fostered in nonadversarial ways.