Security and Sport Mega Events

<p>This edition stresses some critical reflectons regarding security policies before and during Sport Events in our contemporary era of generalized insecurity. Sport competitions at the national European and global levels have evolved in terms of economic investment social importance and media coverage. However this evolution has brought with it major political concerns. At the same time the dominant question regarding the organization of competitions in our post-modern neoliberal risk societies is the creation of a safe and secure<i> milieu;</i> the need of<i> </i>construction of an environment of life where sport events and the multiple activities and interests related to them can be kept safe from any risk and potentially harmful occurrence. In the name of security anticipatory <i>dispositifs</i> and risk management practices rationalities and technologies of government do not exclusively attempt to prevent disastrous incidents or to maintain order <i>in situ</i>. Involving a set of heteronymous public and private organizations and bureaucraties state experts and not state security managers proactive security strategies seek to imagine the future to pre-empt to act in advance to anticipate possible catastrophic incidents by managing populations and spaces in order to set to assure with any cost the ideal conditions.</p><p></p><p>The aim of this volume is to highlight the complex set of legal provisions surveillance and policing practices discourses bureaucratic procedures and spatial and architectural forms underpin the security governance of sport events and their effects in the contemporary era of widespread uncertainty.</p><p></p><p>This book was published as a special issue of <em>Sport in Society</em>.</p>