Securing cities in exceptional events: Surveillance, Militarization and Human Security

Abstract

The contribution of this work is to compare security measures employed in four different cities when hosting global sporting events. Beijing, Johannesburg, London and Rio de Janeiro entail a set of specificities due to the local contexts.

At the same time, all the events were marked by a standardization of security measures based on exceptionalism, surveillance, militarization and urban interventions.

Keywords

• cities
• sporting events
• security
• militarization
• surveillance