Shadowed by the corpse of war

Sport spectacles and the spirit of terrorism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2378083
AutoresMichael Atkinson (0000-0002-4378-0823, University of Toronto), Kevin Young (0000-0002-6369-5108, University of Calgary)
Año2012
Volumen47
Número3
Páginas286-306
Fecha de publicación2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Review for the Sociology of Sport (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1012-6902 • E-ISSN: 1461-7218
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1012690211433452
OpenAlexW1969581508
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas22
Referencias citadas31

Since the early 2000s, there has been a groundswell of research on terrorism and sports mega-events, including investigations into the impact of '9/11' on fear and risk management strategies at high profile sports events. In this article, we re-examine the case of the Salt Lake City Winter Games of 2002 around Baudrillard's (1995) concept of the 'non-event'. We compare the (largely British and North American) mass mediation and discursive framing of terrorism at the 2002 Games with subsequent discourses interwoven into accounts of terrorism, fear and security at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens and the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin. Of principal interest is the global framing of sports mega-events as targets of terrorism and the ways in which such events become fabricated zones of risk. To understand why there is a lingering media construction of the sports mega-event as an imagined target (and, in many ways, pre-constructed victim) of terrorism, we draw centrally on Baudrillard's work (1995, 2001, 2002a, 2002b). Specifically, we employ Baudrillard's concepts of the hyperreal and the non-event as a means of exploring terrorism's relationship with sport, and the potential usage of such theoretical ideas in the sociology of sport and physical culture more broadly

Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Terrorism · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · History · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society