Melani Veveçka Society, Culture, and Security

Built to Watch: The Smart City and the Reinvention of the Surveillance State in Daily Life

In the opening credits of The Jetsons, George Jetson glides through Orbit City, where technology has freed humanity from the drudgery of everyday life. The show offered a comforting fantasy in 1962; a city built on technological infrastructure that could dissolve urban problems altogether.  Six decades later, as real cities rush to install sensors in Read More…

Melani Veveçka Society, Culture, and Security

Special Report – Rural Exclusion and Right-Wing Politics: A Comparative Study of Germany and Canada

To understand the political realities of Canada and Germany today, one must begin with a map. In both countries, polarization takes shape not just in rhetoric but in the growing distance between city skylines and rural streets.  Politics has been reorganized by a new geography of power, with cities now concentrating population, investment, and cultural Read More…