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- An exploratory study of uses of ‘urban security’ and ‘urban safety’ in international urban studies literaturePublication . Tulumello, Simone; Falanga, RobertoThe article explores systematically, albeit preliminarily, the way the concepts of security and safety are employed in scholarly urban studies literature about crime (and the prevention of it). It employs network analysis on author keywords, complemented with text analysis of abstracts, over sets of bibliographic information retrieved from Web of Science. Using a critical interpretative analysis of findings, and looking at the geography of main scholarly communities in this field, the article highlights differences (especially at the operational level) and commonalities (especially at the conceptual level) in the way scholars understand urban security and urban safety. Concluding that this field of study is dominated by operational, evidence-based approaches, the article advocates for a renewed critical engagement of scholarship in this field, through studies that would shift their attention from technical ‘solutions’ to the ‘problems’ that lead societies to demand security/safety.
- Repositionner le débat sur le droit à la ville à Lisbonne : Tendances contradictoires dans le secteur du logementPublication . Allegretti, Giovanni; Tulumello, Simone; Seixas, JoãoEn montrant comment la combinaison des transformations globales et des politiques locales ont touché l’immobilier et le marché du logement dans la première ville du Portugal, le texte prend Lisbonne comme exemple paradigmatique des tensions croissantes entre les nouveaux modèles pseudo-libéraux du développement économique et urbain et leurs oppositions. Celles-ci sont sociales mais aussi du côté des institutions. L’article se demande ainsi jusqu’à quel point la politique de « fin de l’austérité » aujourd’hui est en mesure de répondre aux interrogations de ces nouveaux mouvements sociaux qui émergent du fait des nouvelles conditions de vie et des pressions sur le système du logement en milieu urbain. En dernier lieu, l’article souligne un certain nombre d’enjeux face aux incertitudes de la transition politique et sociale à Lisbonne, qui reste caractérisée par des hésitations.
- Editorial: Communities and social relationships in the fight against territorial inequalitiesPublication . Marques, Pedro; Tulumello, Simone
- From "Spaces of Fear" to "Fearscapes": Mapping for Reframing Theories About the Spatialization of Fear in Urban SpacePublication . Tulumello, SimoneThe article engages with theory about the processes of spatialization of fear in contemporary Western urban space (fortification, privatization, exclusion/seclusion, fragmentation, polarization) and their relation to fear of crime and violence. A threefold taxonomy is outlined (Enclosure, Post-Public Space, Barrier), and “spaces of fear” in the city of Palermo are mapped with the aim of exploring the cumulative large-scale effects of the spatialization of fear on a concrete urban territory. Building on empirical evidence, the author suggests that mainstream theories be reframed as part of a less hegemonic and more discursive approach and that theories mainly based on the analyses of global cities be deprovincialized. The author argues for the deconstruction of the concept of “spaces of fear” in favor of the more discursive concept of “fearscapes” to describe the growing landscapes of fear in contemporary Western cities.
- A paz, o pão, ..., saúde, educação: a habitação, a grande ausência do Estado social democráticoPublication . Tulumello, Simone; Rossini, Luisa
- Against the Commons. A Radical History of Urban Planning [book review]Publication . Tulumello, Simone
- Brief assessment of the Portuguese Framework Law for HousingPublication . Tulumello, Simone; Silva, RitaFour decades after the inscription of the right to housing in article 65 of the 1976 democratic Constitution of the Portuguese state, Portugal was still missing a law that would operationalise that very right. Amid a housing crisis that is cutting through most sectors of the society, and in face of the repoliticisation of this field, the Portuguese Parliament has launched, in 2017, a process which culminated in the recent approval of the Framework Law for Housing (Lei de Bases da Habitação; Law 83/2019, 3 September; hereafter Law). What follows is an assessment of the text of the Law, put in wider perspective by taking stock of recent academic works on Portuguese housing conditions and policy, and of the experience of Habita in supporting struggles for the right to housing. In summary, despite constituting an important step forward in the construction of a national policy and legal framework, the Law falls short of constituting a robust framework that could be concretely mobilised in the defence of the right to housing – with the weakest components being the provisions on the legal protection of the right to housing and on protections in the context of eviction.
- The multi-scalar nature of urban security and public safety: Crime prevention from local policy to policing in Lisbon (Portugal) and Memphis (the United States)Publication . Tulumello, SimoneThe article contributes to recent discussions on convergence/divergence of local policies for urban security and public safety amid globalization, exploring comparatively local approaches to crime prevention and explaining differences/similarities through multilevel connections. I analyze situational prevention, social policy and proximity/community policing in two “not-so-global” metropolises: Lisbon, where security is the goal of a wide set of policies in many fields; and Memphis, where social problems have become security issues and policing the only game in town. Differing approaches are explained on the grounds of political traditions, neoliberalization of policy and multilevel relations among polities. I discuss implications for the relation between policy and policing: police attempts at social outreach amid coupling/decoupling of security with/from urban policy; and the “mission creep” of policing when it is expected to lead prevention. Conclusions advocate that policy reform is necessary at many levels to deal with the intersection of crime, retrenching welfare and aggressive policing in US cities such as Memphis.
- Planning (in) the next century? On the futures of planning that are already herePublication . Pavoni, Andrea; Pereira, Lavínia; Tulumello, SimoneWhat if the problem with planning was its very relation with normativity and future? In this article, we challenge the idea that “the future that we want” can be designed in the sense that planning has historically done—by imagining a future that should be sought by action in the present. In so doing, we explore the possibility of planning as a strategy to release the futurial, excessive presences that already exist in the present, through Stefano Harney and Fred Moten’s notion of “fugitive planning,” and GiorgioAgamben’s idea of “destituent power.”
- Urban AutomationPublication . Cuppini, Niccolò; Pavoni, Andrea; Tulumello, SimoneIt was in the very spirit of engaging with the troubles and promises of automation at the urban level that we launched, some months ago, the call that gave origins to this volume. We had three aims: first, to address the spatialization of automation, investigating the modes, dynamics, and vectors through which automation processes manifest in urban terms, employing a geographic lens for analysis; second, to engage conceptually, exploring what “urban automation” means and its interpretive and epistemological potential as a theoretical framework; and, finally, to leverage these discussions to reflect on the nature of critique in contemporary contexts – to think about troubles and promises beyond the dichotomic approaches that dominate the field