‘Vivemos acima das nossas possibilidades’, ‘we lived beyond our means’: thus parroted the neoliberal pundits, explaining the Portuguese crisis of sovereign debt of 2010/2011 as the result of profligate welfare state.
Had Portugal actually lived beyond its means, it was [...]
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The question may appear redundant and misguided. Urban violence is, seemingly, everywhere, in dusty border towns and concrete inner cities, sprawling informal settlements and secluded gated communities, dark alleyways and busy demonstrations, fast-gentrifying neighbourhoods and dilapidated [...]
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The governance of urban security (or, in American English, public safety) constitutes a privileged angle to study the relations among government, public action, socio-economic trends and urban dynamics. On one hand, security, and its governance, are a nodal dimension of the way public policy [...]
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Some fifteen years ago, Leonie Sandercock made the case for the need to engage with what she dubbed the “political economies of urban fear”. Arguing that “planning and urban management discourses are, and always have been, saturated with fear”, she proposed to explore the connections between [...]
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