Tag: Carceral infrastructure
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DeFIFA: Sports, Policing, and Incarceration at the Men’s World Cup in Seattle (Part 2)
-by Cameron Michels, Deepa Sivarajan, and Leslie McCallum *This is an excerpt from writing originally posted here – in this version we offer a more historical perspective, emphasizing FIFA as a mechanism for surveillance capitalism, within and beyond Seattle. [“Fight the Impacts” art created by Protect Our Pitch 206] The Stadium-to-Prison Pipeline The modern specter of stadiums becoming prisons…
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DeFIFA: Sports, Policing, and Incarceration at the Men’s World Cup in Seattle (Part 1)
-by Cameron Michels, Deepa Sivarajan, and Leslie McCallum *This is an excerpt from writing originally posted here – in this version we offer a slightly more focused account of FWC26 Seattle, emphasizing the colonial-carceral logics underpinning its infrastructure and staging. [“Defend the CID” art created by Protect Our Pitch 206 ] Introduction We are three friends and sports fans living in known-to-settlers-as Seattle,…
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A Technofascist World Cup? Part III: Policing the Perimeter
-by Carolyn Prouse Algorithmic Policing Beyond the Stadium For the World Cup it is not just data but surveillance technology itself that seeps out of the sports stadium into its surrounds. In the first post for this series I discussed how digital technologies are mediating (and even harming) the game we love and, for the…
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A Technofascist World Cup? Part II: Smart Stadium Surveillance
-by Carolyn Prouse Croatia was a hair away from potentially sending Portugal packing in the round of 32 when a VAR-decision called the goal back: apparently the sensor in the Trionda had picked up a slight signal of a hair brushing the ball, rendering the play offside. There has been a lot of controversy, and…
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A Technofascist World Cup? Part I: Militarized Sport
-by Carolyn Prouse FIFA President Gianni Infantino waved to the crowd as Lenovo’s CEO, Yuanqing Yang, stood next to him on a Las Vegas stage, holding up a special edition FIFA 2026 Razr phone to enormous cheers. The ceremony was somewhat of a salve in comparison to the more fascist displays of authoritarian power increasingly…
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World Cup attendees from Africa, South Asia denied visas to Canada
*screenshot from CTV site featuring news article
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Protests Mount in Mexico
FIFA has faced mounting pressure in Mexico City and Guadalajara for the ways that the World Cup is intensifying policing and gentrification. Collectives searching for their disappeared relatives have taken the streets in both cities, and sex worker groups and associations are calling attention to the heightened displacement, evasive tactics, loss of income, and violence…
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Vancouver’s Pivot Legal Society 2nd blog post: What has FIFA’s Human Rights Framework Amounted to? – Part 2
-by Pivot Legal Society in Vancouver, BC; reposted with permission – access original here Just two weeks ahead of the first 2026 World Cup match, Vancouver released its final FIFA Human Rights Action Plan. The Plan, dated May 25, 2026, updated a February draft that Pivot and a coalition of allied organizations had heavily criticized. Though the…
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The Potential Impact of the 2026 FIFA World Cup on Parkdale, Toronto
(Photo above: © Jason S. Cipparrone, Sheltered Perspective Films 2026) By Claudia Vergara, Rhiannon Cobb, Isra Iqbal, Adam Ehsan Ali As Toronto prepares to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the Parkdale neighbourhood, which is directly adjacent to the host stadium BMO Field is likely to disproportionately experience its impacts and outcomes, including increased displacement,…
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FIFA Fails to Red Card U.S. Immigration Policy
On June 6, 2026, Iraq forward Aymen Hussein was detained for almost seven hours by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. After hours of questioning, undergoing “additional inspection”, and having his […]