Lucas Melgaço
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 291282 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Lucas Melgaço |
| NOMBRES | Lucas |
| APELLIDO | Melgaço |
| FIRMA | MELGAÇO L |
| AFILIACIONES | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7654-9874 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
From Participatory to Lateral Surveillance
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 cr…
Recursive Surveillance and the Persistence of Authoritarian Surveillance in Brazil
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. The…
Behind Closed Doors
We reflect on the different methods used to recruit cisgender female escorts for qualitative research into the social and professional context(s) they inhabit. Sex workers in general, and escorts in particular, are difficult to access as they occupy largely opaque spaces within the sex industry. This poses various challenges for researchers in the recruitment of participants. This article considers three core problems linked to the recruitment of…
Irracionalidade acadêmica
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 author’s experien…
The Long Road to Municipality 2.0
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 turn…
Solidary Neighbors? The Involvement of Middle-Class Communities in the Governance of Security and Disorder in Brazil
This study explores how residents govern security in two middle-class neighborhoods in Londrina, the fourth largest city in southern Brazil. Utilizing nodal governance theory, it analyses a security program called Solidary Neighbor ( Vizinho Solidário, in Portuguese) in both neighborhoods, in place since the early 2010s. Document analysis, direct observation, and interviews with 26 respondents comprising mostly residents, but also police officers…
Theory versus Practice in Planning Education
This paper reflects on the ongoing debate between theory and practice in planning, using the example of South Africa. Based on survey responses, it discusses how planning education in South Africa is perceived to prepare students for practice. While we acknowledge that the majority of respondents view their planning education positively, the results reveal challenges regarding the practical application of theory, especially in the case of land-us…
Public Toilets in Brussels' Public Spaces
Pour que les espaces publics soient à la fois accessibles et accueillants, il est essentiel d’y mettre à disposition des toilettes publiques de qualité. Cette nécessité concerne tout particulièrement les femmes ainsi que des groupes plus spécifiques, notamment les personnes âgées, les personnes souffrant d’un problème de santé ou handicapées, et les personnes sans domicile fixe. Malgré leur importance, les toilettes publiques sont souvent synonym…
Les toilettes publiques dans les espaces publics bruxellois
Pour que les espaces publics soient à la fois accessibles et accueillants, il est essentiel d’y mettre à disposition des toilettes publiques de qualité. Cette nécessité concerne tout particulièrement les femmes ainsi que des groupes plus spécifiques, notamment les personnes âgées, les personnes souffrant d’un problème de santé ou handicapées, et les personnes sans domicile fixe. Malgré leur importance, les toilettes publiques sont souvent synonym…
Openbare toiletten in de Brusselse openbare ruimten
Pour que les espaces publics soient à la fois accessibles et accueillants, il est essentiel d’y mettre à disposition des toilettes publiques de qualité. Cette nécessité concerne tout particulièrement les femmes ainsi que des groupes plus spécifiques, notamment les personnes âgées, les personnes souffrant d’un problème de santé ou handicapées, et les personnes sans domicile fixe. Malgré leur importance, les toilettes publiques sont souvent synonym…
Smart Cities as Surveillance Theatre
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 a m…
Justice is Spatial, Also During the Pandemic
The contextual nature of geography
Online Surveillance, Censorship, and Encryption in Academia
The Internet and digital technologies have become indispensable in academia. A world without email, search engines, and online databases is practically unthinkable. Yet, in this time of digital dependence, the academy barely demonstrates an appetite to reflect upon the new challenges that digital technologies have brought to the scholarly profession. This forum's inspiration was a roundtable discussion at the 2017 International Studies Associatio…
The spatial bonds of WikiLeaks
Protests in the Information Age
Toward an Other Globalization
Thinking Outside the Bubble of the Global North
Brazilian geographer Milton Santos is one of the most quoted, celebrated, and controversial social scientists of the so‐called “global South”. His body of work employs a rich vocabulary including reinterpretations of concepts such as “totality”, as well as original concepts like “used territory”. These and other concepts have formed the basis of what could be called a “Miltonian” school of thought in geography. However, despite his national and r…
Protestos na era da informação
Ao mesmo tempo que as tecnologias da informação e comunicação têm impulsionado a ocorrência de grandes manifestações públicas no atual período técnico-científico e informacional, elas têm também sido utilizadas para o monitoramento de ativistas e, por vezes, para verdadeiramente coibir a ação de alguns cidadãos. Esse cenário de intensa vigilância tem sido muitas vezes representado a partir de metáforas como big brother e panóptico. Todavia, esses…
Order and Conflict in Public Space
Introdução
Jesus na Disneylandia e os quatro cavaleiros do ateismo
A geografia do atrito
The prime objective of this dissertation is to promote a discussion regarding the dialogue between Geography and the study of Violence.However, differently from the majority of the researches about urban violence, which has in the analytical method its main theoretical referential, we tried here to bring a dialectic reflection to the question.In the current techno-scientific and informational period, it is impossible to understand this spatial pr…
Thinking Outside the Bubble of the Global North
Brazilian geographer Milton Santos is one of the most quoted, celebrated, and controversial social scientists of the so‐called “global South”. His body of work employs a rich vocabulary including reinterpretations of concepts such as “totality”, as well as original concepts like “used territory”. These and other concepts have formed the basis of what could be called a “Miltonian” school of thought in geography. However, despite his national and r…
Online Surveillance, Censorship, and Encryption in Academia
The Internet and digital technologies have become indispensable in academia. A world without email, search engines, and online databases is practically unthinkable. Yet, in this time of digital dependence, the academy barely demonstrates an appetite to reflect upon the new challenges that digital technologies have brought to the scholarly profession. This forum's inspiration was a roundtable discussion at the 2017 International Studies Associatio…
Smart Cities as Surveillance Theatre
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 a m…
The spatial bonds of WikiLeaks
Recursive Surveillance and the Persistence of Authoritarian Surveillance in Brazil
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. The…
A geografia do atrito
The prime objective of this dissertation is to promote a discussion regarding the dialogue between Geography and the study of Violence.However, differently from the majority of the researches about urban violence, which has in the analytical method its main theoretical referential, we tried here to bring a dialectic reflection to the question.In the current techno-scientific and informational period, it is impossible to understand this spatial pr…
Jesus na Disneylandia e os quatro cavaleiros do ateismo
Introdução
Protestos na era da informação
Ao mesmo tempo que as tecnologias da informação e comunicação têm impulsionado a ocorrência de grandes manifestações públicas no atual período técnico-científico e informacional, elas têm também sido utilizadas para o monitoramento de ativistas e, por vezes, para verdadeiramente coibir a ação de alguns cidadãos. Esse cenário de intensa vigilância tem sido muitas vezes representado a partir de metáforas como big brother e panóptico. Todavia, esses…
Order and Conflict in Public Space
Toward an Other Globalization
Thinking Outside the Bubble of the Global North
Brazilian geographer Milton Santos is one of the most quoted, celebrated, and controversial social scientists of the so‐called “global South”. His body of work employs a rich vocabulary including reinterpretations of concepts such as “totality”, as well as original concepts like “used territory”. These and other concepts have formed the basis of what could be called a “Miltonian” school of thought in geography. However, despite his national and r…
The spatial bonds of WikiLeaks
Protests in the Information Age
Online Surveillance, Censorship, and Encryption in Academia
The Internet and digital technologies have become indispensable in academia. A world without email, search engines, and online databases is practically unthinkable. Yet, in this time of digital dependence, the academy barely demonstrates an appetite to reflect upon the new challenges that digital technologies have brought to the scholarly profession. This forum's inspiration was a roundtable discussion at the 2017 International Studies Associatio…
The contextual nature of geography
Smart Cities as Surveillance Theatre
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 a m…
Justice is Spatial, Also During the Pandemic
Solidary Neighbors? The Involvement of Middle-Class Communities in the Governance of Security and Disorder in Brazil
This study explores how residents govern security in two middle-class neighborhoods in Londrina, the fourth largest city in southern Brazil. Utilizing nodal governance theory, it analyses a security program called Solidary Neighbor ( Vizinho Solidário, in Portuguese) in both neighborhoods, in place since the early 2010s. Document analysis, direct observation, and interviews with 26 respondents comprising mostly residents, but also police officers…
Theory versus Practice in Planning Education
This paper reflects on the ongoing debate between theory and practice in planning, using the example of South Africa. Based on survey responses, it discusses how planning education in South Africa is perceived to prepare students for practice. While we acknowledge that the majority of respondents view their planning education positively, the results reveal challenges regarding the practical application of theory, especially in the case of land-us…
Public Toilets in Brussels' Public Spaces
Pour que les espaces publics soient à la fois accessibles et accueillants, il est essentiel d’y mettre à disposition des toilettes publiques de qualité. Cette nécessité concerne tout particulièrement les femmes ainsi que des groupes plus spécifiques, notamment les personnes âgées, les personnes souffrant d’un problème de santé ou handicapées, et les personnes sans domicile fixe. Malgré leur importance, les toilettes publiques sont souvent synonym…
Les toilettes publiques dans les espaces publics bruxellois
Pour que les espaces publics soient à la fois accessibles et accueillants, il est essentiel d’y mettre à disposition des toilettes publiques de qualité. Cette nécessité concerne tout particulièrement les femmes ainsi que des groupes plus spécifiques, notamment les personnes âgées, les personnes souffrant d’un problème de santé ou handicapées, et les personnes sans domicile fixe. Malgré leur importance, les toilettes publiques sont souvent synonym…
Openbare toiletten in de Brusselse openbare ruimten
Pour que les espaces publics soient à la fois accessibles et accueillants, il est essentiel d’y mettre à disposition des toilettes publiques de qualité. Cette nécessité concerne tout particulièrement les femmes ainsi que des groupes plus spécifiques, notamment les personnes âgées, les personnes souffrant d’un problème de santé ou handicapées, et les personnes sans domicile fixe. Malgré leur importance, les toilettes publiques sont souvent synonym…
The Long Road to Municipality 2.0
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 turn…
Irracionalidade acadêmica
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 author’s experien…
From Participatory to Lateral Surveillance
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 cr…
Recursive Surveillance and the Persistence of Authoritarian Surveillance in Brazil
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. The…
Behind Closed Doors
We reflect on the different methods used to recruit cisgender female escorts for qualitative research into the social and professional context(s) they inhabit. Sex workers in general, and escorts in particular, are difficult to access as they occupy largely opaque spaces within the sex industry. This poses various challenges for researchers in the recruitment of participants. This article considers three core problems linked to the recruitment of…
Political science (14 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Humanities (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Public relations (5 obras) · Geography (4 obras)