Publicaties

Municipal apps prompt citizens to report incidents of urban disorder and nuisance in a quick and simple manner directly from their mobile devices to the relevant municipal department. Presented as participatory surveillance tools, these apps allow local authorities to crowdsource information on the urban environment directly from citizens. However, these same platforms also enable individual citizens to anonymously report one another for minor ...

To comprehend contemporary surveillance in Brazil, especially under Bolsonaro’s administration (2019–2022), it is crucial to revisit the country’s most authoritarian period, the military dictatorship (1964–1985). During this period, the National Information Service (SNI) was established as a state intelligence agency and played a pivotal role in monitoring and suppressing dissent, setting the stage for future surveillance practices in Brazil. ...

Since 2020 wastewater-based surveillance has quickly been established as an effective and cost-efficient tool for monitoring global public health. In this Making Waves article, we argue that these programs must be grounded in principles of justice to achieve global water and health equity. Ethics initiatives to date have focused primarily on privacy, legality, and institutionalised research reviews, often, if not exclusively, in North America ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...