
Lior Volinz
raziskovalec
Dr. Lior Volinz je raziskovalec na Inštitutu za kriminologijo pri Pravni fakulteti v Ljubljani. V svojih raziskavah se ukvarja s tehnologijami nadzora in preiskovanja, digitalnim upravljanjem ter privatizacijo in pluralizacijo zagotavljanja varnosti. Trenutno se posveča raziskavam v okviru podoktorskega projekta Marie Skłodowska-Curie, SURVEILWEL – ‘Digital Seams in the Social Safety net’, financiranega v okviru ERA (European Research Area) Fellowship. Njegov projekt pod mentorstvom profesorja Aleša Završnika obravnava temo digitalizacije socialne države, osredotoča pa se na družbene posledice digitalnega zbiranja podatkov o prejemnikih socialnih pomoči in avtomatizacije testov upravičenosti v Sloveniji.
Lior je pred tem delal kot podoktorski raziskovalec na Vrije Universiteit Brussel v Belgiji. V preteklosti je izvajal raziskave na terenu v Belgiji, Izraelu/Palestini in Sloveniji, in pri tem sodeloval pri številnih raziskovalnih projektih, kot so SOS4Democracy, GATHERINGS (Common Standards for Security, Privacy and Cost Of the Surveillance of Public Gatherings ) in PUL-MOBIL (Producing Urban Legibility: Mobile City Applications and the Local Governance of Minor Offences). Lior je doktoriral na Univerzi v Amsterdamu (2019), kjer je na oddelku za humano geografijo, urbanizem in mednarodni razvoj zagovarjal disertacijo z naslovom ‘The Modular Security Toolbox – Assembling State and Citizenship in Jerusalem’. Lior je magistriral iz socialne in kulturne antropologije na Univerzi v Ljubljani in Univerzi v Stockholmu (2013, cum laude).
Področja raziskovanja
tehnologije nadzora in preiskovanja, digitalno upravljanje ter privatizacija in pluralizacija zagotavljanja varnosti
- Volinz, L. (2025). Authoritarian surveillance: An introduction. Surveillance & Society, 23(1). https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v23i1.18975
- Volinz, L. (2024). The municipal legal order in a digital world: Tackling minor offenses and shaping law enforcement policies through a municipal app in Brussels. Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis, 56(1), 149-165.
- Steenhout, I., Volinz, L., Beyens, K., & Melgaço, L. (2023). The long road to Municipality 2.0: mobile city apps as catalyst for change?. Social Science Computer Review.
- Volinz, L., Steenhout, I., Beyens, K., & Melgaço, L. (2021). FixMyStreet! Een criminologisch-theoretisch perspectief op de afhandeling van overlast via mobiele applicaties. Panopticon, 42(6), 527.
- Volinz, L. (2021). Uncertainty as a mode of governance: differentiating movement through Jerusalem’s checkpoints. Mobilities, 16:3, 289-305.
- Volinz, L. (2021). Technical solutions to social problems: On digital participatory surveillance and the threat of the homeless. Criminiological Encounters, 4:1, 217-222.
- Volinz, L. (2020). Performing the Home : Enacting Citizenship and Countering Jerusalem’s Residency Revocation Policy. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 45(6), 1073-1080.
- Volinz, L. (2020). The Making and Unmaking of a Private Security Trade Union in Occupied East Jerusalem. Society for the Anthropology of Work. American Anthropological Association.
- Volinz, L. (2019). The Modular Security Toolbox: Assembling State and Citizenship in Jerusalem. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Amsterdam.
- Volinz, L. (2019). Crafting and reinforcing the state through security privatisation: territorialisation as a public–private state project in East Jerusalem, Policing and Society, 29(9), 1077-1090.
- Volinz, L. (2018). Governance through Pluralization: Jerusalem’s Modular Security Provision, Security Dialogue, 49(6), 438-456.
- Volinz, L. (2018). From Above and Below: Surveillance, Religion, and Claim-Making at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif. Surveillance and Society, 16(4), 446-458.
- Grassiani, E. & Volinz, L. (2016). Intimidation, reassurance and invisibility: Israeli security agents in the Old City of Jerusalem. Focaal (75).