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The regeneration games: purity and security in the Olympic city1

Fussey, Pete, Coaffee, Jon, Armstrong, Gary, Hobbs, Dick·2012·The British Journal of Sociology
DOI 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2012.01409.x
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This paper examines the wider social impacts of hosting the London 2012 Olympic Games and its 'legacy' ambitions in East London, emphasizing securitization as an inbuilt feature of the urban regeneration project. Drawing on extensive original empirical research, the paper analyses the modalities of Olympic safety and security practices within the Olympic Park itself and their wider impact, while also connecting this research to theorization and debates in urban sociology and criminology. In this complex setting, a raft of formal and informal, often subtle, regulatory mechanisms have emerged, especially as visions of social ordering focused on 'cleansing' and 'purifying' have 'leaked out' from the hyper-securitized 'sterilized' environment of the Olympic Park and become embedded within the Olympic neighbourhood. In such complex circumstances, applying Douglas' (1966) work on purity and danger to the spatial realm provides a key conceptual framework to understand the form and impact of such processes. The imposition of order can be seen to not only perform 'cleansing' functions, but also articulate multiple symbolic, expressive and instrumental roles.

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Authors
Fussey, P., Coaffee, J., Armstrong, G., & Hobbs, D.
Affiliations
  • University of Essex (GB)
  • University of Manchester (GB)
  • Brunel University of London (GB)
Corresponding author
Fussey, Pete
ORCID
Venue
The British Journal of Sociology
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2012-06
Volume
63
Issue
2
Pages
260-284
ISSN
  • 0007-1315 (ISSN-L)
  • 1468-4446
DOI
10.1111/j.1468-4446.2012.01409.x
OpenAlex
W1899115482
Cited by
62
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FWCI
21.03
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor)
Locations
  • British Journal of Sociology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) (submittedVersion)
  • Open Access at Essex (University of Essex) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Sociology, History and Politics of Sport
  • Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban Planning and Governance
Keywords
Olympic Games, 2012 London Olympics, urban regeneration, securitization, Olympic legacy, purity and danger, social order, security practices, East London, Olympic Park, urban sociology, criminology
MeSH terms
City Planning, Humans, London, Social Control Policies, Security Measures, Sports, Urban Renewal

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