A small but growing share of sociological research recognizes the importance of perceptions
of the future for explaining social outcomes. This article, taking a sociology of knowledge …

What do organizations do, and why? An important but only selectively scrutinized aspect of
the doings of organizations consists in their creation of imaginaries of economic futures …

The current COVID-19 pandemic has already impacted both elite and grassroots sports in a
series of ways. Whilst accepting that many answers to emerging and relevant questions …

This article argues that with increasingly large databases and computational power, profiling
as a key part of security governance is experiencing major changes. Targeting mobile …

Names: Gold, John R., 1949–editor.| Gold, Margaret M., editor. Title: Olympic cities: city
agendas, planning and the world's games, 1896-2032/edited by John R. Gold and Margaret …

"'Cyber security'is a recent addition to the global security agenda, concerned with protecting
states and citizens from the misuse of computer networks for war, terrorism, economic …

This is the first book to look closely at the concept of 'risk'in elite and professional football
from a social scientific perspective. Drawing on the wider sociological, criminological and …

Mass gatherings are events characterized by “the concentration of people at a specific
location for a specific purpose over a set period of time that have the potential to strain the …

This book examines contemporary issues of security at sports mega-events (SMEs). It
focuses on the 2020 UEFA European Football Championship (Euro 2020)-subsequently …

Sports stadiums are a prime site for the deployment and development of facial recognition
technology. They are being used to envision and model a spectator experience governed by …