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Security as Theatre: the London Olympics Abstract This paper proposes the London Olympics 2012 as a clear example of Stephen Graham’s military urbanism in action. Using the structure of a visual essay with an accompanying introductory text, this paper argues that the visibility of the security structures at the Olympics functioned as a stage-set of securitization. The importance of the image in terrorism/counter-terrorism is set against the backdrop of the 7/7 bombings as a way to establish the context of the London Olympics as a moment when the city was transformed into a landscape of hyper-security and to document the segregated city this produced. A photographic methodology is proposed as a way to document, analyse and critique these security structures in action. Read the full article "here":https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03058034.2020.1720064