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Sport mega-events and ‘terrorism’: a critical analysis
journal contribution
posted on 2014-08-22, 08:36 authored by Richard GiulianottiRichard Giulianotti, Francisco KlauserThe article explores critically the interplay between sport and terrorism, with particular reference to sport mega-events. Our discussion is divided into two main sections. First, we set out the main principles of a critical social theoretical approach, which enables satisfactory analysis of the ‘sport/ terrorism’ couplet. We discuss the contribution of three types of critical perspective that are tied to different disciplines, namely sociology, human geography, and political science/international relations. Second, we turn to consider some of the main historical and contemporary incidents and issues with regard to terrorism at sport mega-events. On this basis, we show how and why social scientific analysis needs to move beyond common-sense understandings of the sport/ terrorism couplet, to investigate critically the epistemologies and discursive constructions of terror, the logics, processes and relationships underpinning specific counter-terrorism strategies, and the wider socio-spatial implications thereof.
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Published in
International Review for the Sociology of SportVolume
47Issue
3Pages
307 - 323Citation
GIULIANOTTI, R. and KLAUSER, F., 2012. Sport mega-events and 'terrorism': a critical analysis. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 47 (3), pp. 307-323.Publisher
SAGE (© the authors)Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.Publication date
2012ISSN
1012-6902eISSN
1461-7218Publisher version
Language
- en