Restricting the Public in Public Space
The London 2012 Olympic Games, Hyper-Securitization and Marginalized Youth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2642841 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacqueline Kennelly (0000-0002-8991-3898, Carleton University, corresponding author), Paul Watts (0000-0003-1773-6404, Birkbeck, University of London), Paul Watt (0000-0001-9197-4473, Birkbeck, University of London) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 131-136 |
| Publication date | 2013-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Research Online (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5153/sro.3038 |
| OpenAlex | W2125817525 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 19 |
In contrast to Olympic organizers' claims about the London 2012 Games as a celebration for all, we recount the experiences of low-income and marginally housed young people as experiencing exclusion from the benefits of the Games being held in their neighbourhood. Drawing on qualitative methods with young people living in the ethnically diverse and economically deprived Olympic host borough of Newham, we focus on public space and its limitations in the context of the 2012 Games. The article discusses the sense conveyed by young people of their neighbourhood being made beautiful for visitors, but of themselves being overly policed and subject to Olympic-related dispersal orders. We conclude by querying for whom is public space made available during the Olympic Games, suggesting that the benefactors are not economically marginalized young people living in the shadow of the Games
Borough · Ethnic group · Ethnically diverse · Focus group · Geography · Media studies · Political science · Public space · Sociology · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Gender Studies · Psychology · Public Administration · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
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Mega-events, expansion and prospects
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Green spaces as places for inclusion
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Places to be young
You're making our city look bad
Security Games
Surveilling and Securing the Olympics
Understanding the Olympics
Seeing Olympic effects through the eyes of marginally housed youth
It's not for us’
Globalization, cities and the Summer Olympics
Olympics 2012 security
The Geography of Survival and the Right to the City
Young People, Anti-social Behaviour and Public Space
To Serve and Protect
The regeneration games
Street Phenomenology
Security Governance and Sport Mega-events
Sanitizing Public Space in Olympic Host Cities
Spectacular Security
| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 0,82 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |