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The long road to Municipality 2.0: mobile city apps as catalyst for change? Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Iris Steenhout, Lior Volinz, Kristel Beyens, Lucas Melgaço

In recent decades, the public sector has been looking for ways to accommodate increasingly critical citizens by striving towards a less bureaucratic and more efficient organization, as well as more direct forms of communication. Government institutions try to respond more quickly to citizens’ concerns and want to ensure that citizens can contact them more easily and find relevant and accurate information promptly. To achieve this, they often ...

Academic irrationality Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Lucas Melgaço
The article addresses the irrationalities of the current university management model. It highlights how the pursuit of more organization, efficiency, and productivity, often based on rationalization principles,
results in irrationalities: individualism, dehumanization, dishonesty, superficiality, loss of quality, and increased academic stress. Through a dialogue with the literature on the university crisis and reflections on
the ...

Milton Santos Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Lucas Melgaço
This chapter provides an overview of Milton Santos's main contributions to the discussions around space and place, addressing key biographical details and the theoretical context of his work. As Brazil's most influential geographer, Santos developed a robust theoretical framework and a coherent set of concepts that have significantly impacted geography both in Brazil and globally. His work emphasizes the importance of geographic space, defined ...

Editorial Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Mattias Lucien De Backer, Lucas Melgaço, Lior Volinz
The article explores the connection between criminology and war, focusing on the 2023 global conflicts like the Ukraine invasion and the Gaza conflict. It criticizes criminology's past neglect of war as topic of interest and discusses the ethical challenges posed by the Gaza conflict, urging criminologists to move beyond simple pacifism. The article advocates for an analysis that looks at power imbalances, questions the beneficiaries of armed ...

Seeing is (not always) believing Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Julie Caluwaerts, Lucas Melgaço
The use of bodycams can lend to greater legitimacy, transparency, and accountability with regard to police-citizen interactions. However, they ought not be considered a panacea, and need to be understood in their fuller context. The footage they produce is not the only bearer of truth about police-citizen encounters, rather it ought to be considered as an additional perspective on what happens in such encounters.

Social representation of violence against Indigenous women in the films The Milk of Sorrow and Ixcanul Volcano Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Maylen Villamanan Alba, Lucas Melgaço
One of the recurrent victims of violence are indigenous women of Latin American. The films The milk ofsorrow (Peru, 2009) and Ixcanul: Volcano (Guatemala, 2015) explore social representations of violence againstindigenous women. Using the content analysis method, the expressions of violence in the films are revealed. Thesewomen are subject to a triple condition of asymmetry: their gender condition, the racialisation of indigenous peoplesand the ...

Seeing is (not) always believing Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Julie Caluwaerts, Lucas Melgaço
The use of bodycams can lend to greater legitimacy, transparency, and accountability with regard to police-citizen interactions. However, they ought not be considered a panacea, and need to be viewed in their full context. The footage they produce is not the only bearer of truth about police-citizen encounters, rather they ought to be considered as additional perspectives to what happens in these encounters.

Smart Cities as Surveillance Theatre Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Lucas Melgaço, Rosamunde Elise Van Brakel

In this opinion piece, we challenge the dominating view that surveillance in smart cities is driven by surveillance capitalism alone. Whilst this literature unpicks important factors and trends, we argue that a focus on surveillance capitalism as a sole driver risks ignoring the more intricate realities of surveillance assemblages. They are often propelled by many different desires and power relations (Haggerty and Ericson 2000). We argue for ...