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Securing and Sustaining the Olympic City

Reconfiguring London for 2012 and Beyond

By: Dr Gary Armstrong,Dr Pete Fussey,Professor Dick Hobbs,Professor Jon Coaffee

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Securing and Sustaining the Olympic City

Reconfiguring London for 2012 and Beyond

By: Dr Gary Armstrong,Dr Pete Fussey,Professor Dick Hobbs,Professor Jon Coaffee

Often seen as the host nation's largest ever logistical undertaking, accommodating the Olympics and its attendant security infrastructure brings seismic changes to both the physical and social geography of its destination. Since 1976, the defence of the spectacle has become the central feature of its planning, one that has assumed even greater prominence following the bombing of the 1996 Atlanta Games and, most importantly, 9/11. Indeed, the quintupled cost of securing the first post-9/11 summer Games in Athens demonstrates the considerable scale and complexity currently implicated in these operations. Such costs are not only fiscal. The Games stimulate a tidal wave of redevelopment ushering in new gentrified urban settings and an associated investment that may or may not soak through to the incumbent community. Given the unusual step of developing London's Olympic Park in the heart of an existing urban milieu and the stated commitments to 'community development' and 'legacy', these constitute particularly acute issues for the 2012 Games. In addition to sealing the Olympic Park from perceived threats, 2012 security operations have also harnessed the administrative criminological staples of community safety and crime reduction to generate an ordered space in the surrounding areas. Of central importance here are the issues of citizenship, engagement and access in urban spaces redeveloped upon the themes of security and commerce. Through analyzing the social and community impact of the 2012 Games and its security operation on East London, this book concludes by considering the key debates as to whether utopian visions of legacy can be sustained given the demands of providing a global securitized event of the magnitude of the modern Olympics.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409492958

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9781409492955

Alcohol, Drinking, Drunkenness

(Dis)Orderly Spaces

By: Sarah L. Holloway,Dr Mark Jayne,Professor Gill Valentine

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Alcohol, Drinking, Drunkenness

(Dis)Orderly Spaces

By: Sarah L. Holloway,Dr Mark Jayne,Professor Gill Valentine

While disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, politics, social policy and the health and medical sciences have a tradition of exploring the centrality of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness to people's lives, geographers have only previously addressed these topics as a peripheral concern. Over the past few years, however, this view has begun to change, accelerated by an upsurge in interest in alcohol consumption relating to political and popular debate in countries throughout the world. This book represents the first systematic overview of geographies of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness. It asks what role alcohol, drinking and drunkenness plays in people's lives and how space and place are key constituents of alcohol consumption. It also examines the economic, political, social, cultural and spatial practices and processes that are bound up with alcohol, drinking and drunkenness. Designed as a reference text, each chapter blends theoretical material with empirical case studies in order to analyse drinking in public and private space, in the city and the countryside, as well as focusing on gender, generations, ethnicity and emotional and embodied geographies.

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176

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409488942

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Burglars on the Job

Streetlife and Residential Break-Ins

By: Richard T. Wright,Foundation Professor and Director of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice Scott H Decker,Scott H. Decker

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Burglars on the Job

Streetlife and Residential Break-Ins

By: Richard T. Wright,Foundation Professor and Director of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice Scott H Decker,Scott H. Decker

A look inside the minds of more than 100 active burglars.

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251

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UPNE

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1555537855

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9781555537852

The Black and Ethnic Minority Woman Manager

Cracking the Concrete Ceiling

By: Professor Marilyn J Davidson, Professor

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The Black and Ethnic Minority Woman Manager

Cracking the Concrete Ceiling

By: Professor Marilyn J Davidson, Professor

Based on the author s analysis of in-depth interviews and relevant research literature, this booki nvestigates and explores the experiences, problems and pressures faced by black and ethnic minority women managers in the United Kingdom. To date, research addressing the issues of black managers has been almost exclusively American, predominantly black African-Americans, and the overall amount of published research has been limited. Indeed, studies of black and ethnic minority professional women, especially in corporate settings, have been virtually excluded from the growing body of research on women in management. This book has been written to fill this gap.

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Sage

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1446223620

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Securing and Sustaining the Olympic City

Securing and Sustaining the Olympic City

Alcohol, Drinking, Drunkenness

Alcohol, Drinking, Drunkenness

Burglars on the Job

Burglars on the Job

The Black and Ethnic Minority Woman Manager

The Black and Ethnic Minority Woman Manager

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