June 2011

CFP on Mega Events and the City: Special edition of URBE

Editors: Gemma Galdon Clavell & Pete Fussey Read more +

Rethinking Security at the Olympics by Daniel Bernhard and Aaron K. Martin

The Olympics are much sought after for the opportunities they provide to states and host-cities in affirming and projecting modernist values around the world.  Throughout recent history the Olympic Games have been explicitly tied to larger modernizing tendencies where host governments have been eager to demonstrate their wealth, technological sophistication and administrative expertise. Read more +

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