Contested Terrains: Mega-Event Securities and Everyday Practices of Governance

Amanda De Lisio, Michael Silk () and Philip Hubbard
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Amanda De Lisio: Faculty of Health, York University, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
Michael Silk: Department of Sport & Event Management, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth BH12 5BB, UK
Philip Hubbard: Department of Geography, Kings College London, London WC2B 4BG, UK

Social Sciences, 2024, vol. 13, issue 7, 1-16

Abstract: Sport mega-events (SMEs) remake cities as global brandscapes of leisured consumption; reliant in part upon securitization designed to create an atmosphere free from disturbance and render invisible those “abject” populations who might puncture the tourist bubble that surrounds stadia and fan-zones. Yet, such “shiny” cityspaces are not devoid of complexity, contestation, and compunction. In this paper, we draw on extensive ethnographic- and community-based participatory research in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (prior to, during, and after two SMEs) collected in collaboration with sex workers, working in areas of SME intervention. Our focus is on the contingent nature of securitization amidst the contested terrains and trajectories of SME urbanism. Our analysis resonates with observations from other host cities, challenging dominant myths that the sport mega-event creates impermeable securitized cityscapes by revealing the fluid topography of formality and informality, contestation and negotiation, and oppression and power.

Keywords: sport mega-event; securitization; host communities; sex work; Rio de Janeiro (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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