Sport Mega Events, Urban Football Carnivals and Securitised Commodification: The Case of the English Premier League
This paper explores the interrelationships of security policies and processes of commodification with respect to contemporary sport mega events (SMEs). First, it is argued that we need to move beyond conventional understandings of SMEs, as specific occasions fixed in time and space. Instead, we should examine more diffuse forms of SME, as illustrated by major sport leagues such as the English Premier League (EPL). Secondly, the paper discusses the popular cultures that have long been intrinsic to urban sporting spaces and which have been marginalised by strategies of securitisation and commodification since the late 1980s. Thirdly and fourthly, the principal juridico-political and political-economic forces that prevail within the EPL, and UK football in general, are examined-notably in regard to constrictive legislation and advanced security technologies, alongside policies of neo-liberal gov-ernmentalisation and urban revanchism. Fifthly, the paper explores expressions and irruptions of public unease, transgression and conflict within UK football settings with respect to these forces.
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2011
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Authors: | Giulianotti, Richard |
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Urban Studies. - Urban Studies Journal Limited. - Vol. 48.2011, 15, p. 3293-3310
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Urban Studies Journal Limited |
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