Abstract
This article presents a history of Sydney's New Year's Eve event. First established when a crowd gathered outside Sydney's General Post Office in 1897 to celebrate the inauguration of International Standard Time, in more recent years it has evolved into a signature event on the city's calendar, drawing in excess of 1 million people into the Central Business District in a spectacular celebration of the global city. For those authorities charged with managing the event an enduring problem concerns the question of security: how is the aggregate of human bodies that gather to be governed in ways that secure it from the risks it presents: be they risks to public order (riot), to the crowd itself (panic), or external to it (terror attack) or to the population (viral spread)? This article maps how crowds have been thought as objects of government in relation to the New Year's Eve event.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 310-325 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | International Journal of Cultural Studies |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - May 2023 |
Bibliographical note
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© The Author(s) 2023. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).Keywords
- circulation
- social contagion
- crowds
- New Year's Eve
- crowded places
- Sydney
