London's shadow legacies: Security and activism at the 2012 Olympics

Contemporary Social Science

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 253-270

  Boykoff, Jules ^a   Fussey, Pete ^b  

^a PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

activism; dissent; legacies; London 2012; Olympics; repression; security

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901348972     PISSN: 21582041     EISSN: 2158205X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21582041.2013.838292     Document Type: Article

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