LSTS Members

Contact

Lucas Melgaço
Law Science Technology & Society (LSTS)
Building B, room 4B317
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pleinlaan 2
B-1050 Brussels
Belgium

Phone
secretary +32 2 629 24 60
direct
fax +32 2 629 26 62

Email
lucas.melgaco@vub.ac.be

Lucas Melgaco is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Criminology at VUB and a research associate at LSTS. He has a doctorate degree in a joint supervision program from the University of Sao Paulo and the University of Paris 1, Pantheon-Sorbonne. His PhD dissertation, entitled "Securitizing the Urban: from psycho-sphere of fear to techno-sphere of security", focused on various architectural changes that have happened in Brazil due to the fear of violence. More specifically he paid attention to the privatization of public spaces through the creation of gated communities and deterrent architectures in the city of Campinas. Lucas also has a master's degree in Human Geography from the University of Sao Paulo and a bachelor's degree in Geography from the State University of Campinas, Brazil.

His teaching and researching experiences include one year as an invited professor and post-doctoral researcher at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and also a four years stay at the Department of Geography of the Catholic University of Campinas. He is the holder of a three-year fellowship granted by Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO) for his post-doctoral project "Monitored youth: Understanding the consequences of (electronic) surveillance practices on young people and their (deviant) behaviour". Currently, he is on a research leave as a post-doctoral researcher at the Surveillance Studies Centre at the Department of Sociology at Queen's University, Canada.

His main scientific interests are in the domains of urban planning; surveillance and security in educational spaces; surveillance of youth in public spaces; epistemology of Geography; and the relations between the new technologies of information and security. Recently he has also worked in introducing the theory of the Brazilian geographer Milton Santos to the English speaking community.

Publications

Melgaço Lucas (2012) A cidade de poucos: condomínios fechados e a privatização do espaço público em Campinas. issue 1, vol.2, pp.81 - 105, published by Boletim Campineiro de Geografia.

Melgaço Lucas (2011) Les injustices de la sécurisation urbaine dans la ville brésilienne de Campinas (also available in English under the title "The injustices of urban securitization in the Brazilian city of Campinas). Justice spatiale | spatial justice, issue n. 4.

Melgaço Lucas (2010) A cidade e a negação do outro. Com Ciência., issue 118.

Melgaço Lucas (2010) Quando a busca por segurança gera novas violências. Seminar: "Ilegalismos, cidade e política: perspectivas comparativas?., published by University of São Paulo.

Melgaço Lucas (2010) Rationality, counter-rationality and irrationality concerning CCTV surveillance. Seminar: "A Global Surveillance Society"?, published by City University, London.

Melgaço Lucas (2009) Rationalisation and digitalisation of space through videosurveillance. from Territoires en Mouvements: Forum des Doctorants du Institute de Géographie de Paris, published by Ecole Doctorale de Géographie de Paris. Universities of Paris 1, 4 e 7.

Melgaço Lucas (2008) Territorio em Atrito: a violência sob o olhar da complexidade dialética. from In: SOUZA, Maria Adélia de (ed). A Metrópole e o Futuro: refletindo sobre Campinas., pp.447 - 469, published by Edicoes Territorial.

Melgaço Lucas (2007) Da psicoesfera do medo à tecnoesfera da segurança. from In: Sá, Alcindo José de (ed). Por uma Geografia sem cárceres públicos ou privados., pp.213 - 233, published by Recife: Os Autores.

Melgaço Lucas, Souza Filho Carlos Roberto, Michael Steinmayer (2007) Constatar não é compreender: limitações do Geoprocessamento enquanto instrumental analítico de representação da realidade. 13, from Annals of the XIII Brazilian Symposium of Remote Sensing, pp.5373 - 5380, published by Florianopolis: INPE.

Melgaço Lucas (2005) Comparação entre modelos digitais de elevação gerados por sensores ópticos e por radar. 12, from Annals of the XII Brazilian Symposium of Remote Sensing, pp.1215 - 1220, published by Goiânia: INPE.

Melgaço Lucas (2005) For a Science of Attrition: dialectic essay about urban violence. issue 1, vol.1, pp.98 - 110, published by Revista do Departamento de Geografia do Instituto de Geosciências ? Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

Melgaço Lucas (2005) Solidariedades Geograficas e Violencia Urbana. from "Supporting the Urbanity: Conflicts, identities and territories". VI meeting of the Urban Development Workgroup of the Latin Council of Social Sciences, published by Medellin, Colombia.

Melgaço Lucas, Albuquerque Mariana (2004) Território Recortado. from Annals of the VI Brazilian Meeting of Geographers, published by Goiânia: AGB.

Melgaço Lucas (2003) Uso do Território pela Violência. from In: Souza, Maria Adélia de (ed), Território Brasileiro: usos e abusos, pp.524 - 533, published by Campinas: Edições Territorial.