The Discourse and Practice of the Olympic Games:
Eviction and Displacement of Marginalized Citizens for Elite Sporting Projects
Olympic gentrification has been associated with human rights abuses, particularly the eviction and displacement of host community residents. Between the Seoul 1988 and London 2012 Games, it is estimated that over 2 million people were displaced. Despite employing human rights rhetoric, Olympic Games organizers often implemented housing policies that favored the wealthy and catered to powerful construction and real estate interests, exacerbating existing inequalities. This highlights a lack of commitment by the IOC to the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11—making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable—despite their formal and informal partnerships with the UN. This visualization illustrates the number of people directly and indirectly displaced due to event preparations. It also includes related information such as the marginalized groups affected, the negative impact on housing, and tactics used to evict residents.
Source:
Müller, Martin; Wolfe, Sven Daniel; Gaffney, Christopher; Gogishvili, David; Hug, Miriam; Leick, Annick, 2021, "Dataset: Sustainability of the Olympic Games", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZARR6A, Harvard Dataverse, V1
The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), Geneva, Switzerland Fair Play for Housing Rights: Mega-Events, Olympic Games and Housing Rights ISBN: 978-92-95004-38-2© Copyright 2007
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