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Melgaço Lucas
Bio
Lucas Melgaço is a Professor at the Department of Criminology and is a former post-doctoral researcher at the same department.
His main scientific interests are in the domains of surveillance, public order, social movements and protests, policing, urban criminology, social geography, and in the relationships between information and communication technologies, space and security.
He has also worked on translating and introducing the theories of the Brazilian scholar Milton Santos to the English-speaking community.
Lucas is editor-in-chief of the journal Criminological Encounters.
lucas.melgaco@vub.ac.be
Fonction
Professeur
Centre(s) de recherche
CRiS
Domaine(s)
criminologie
Université(s)
VUB
Publications
“Chaos voorspellen: politie en oproercontrole in Brussel.” Melgaço, Lucas, Tijdschrift voor de Politie, Vol. 77, No. 9, 12.2015, p. 26-30.
“Scenes from a bird’s eye view: Imaging the Brussels protests via Twitter.” Melgaço, Lucas; Steenhout, Iris, The Stockholm Criminology Symposium 2015. Stockholm Criminology Symposium, 2015.
“Analyzing Protests Against Police Brutality in Brussels : The Challenges Faced by the Researcher.” Melgaço, Lucas, Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society: “Geographies of Co-Prodution”. 2014.