The influence of technology corporations on the development of smart cities can generate corporate-centric models of governance. Thus, it is relevant to examine which governance models help to promote sustainability. Based on a rapid review on the governance of smart cities, this paper aims to evaluate the merits and drawbacks of various governance models adopted by diverse smart city initiatives. It contends that top-down models often prioritize corporate-centric governance structures, potentially neglecting sustainability concerns. Nonetheless, our findings indicate that top-down approaches can mitigate corporate-centric tendencies by integrating citizen participation into their visions and strategies. Hybrid models offer the advantage of governmental leadership but may lean towards a triple-helix model, with limited citizen involvement. Conversely, bottom-up models represent quadruple-helix collaborations with active citizen engagement.

This article explores the life stories of 12 ex--combatants in the Heroes of Montes de Maria paramilitary group in Colombia, focusing on the expression of emotions. It shows that centering stories on the emotions experienced allowed the interviewees to articulate the effects of armed violence on peasant communities as well as on their own life trajectories and careers, encouraging moral understanding of their actions that mitigated their feelings of responsibility for having participated in an organization implicated in serious human rights violations. In a context in which peasant careers have been transformed by the violence associated with armed conflict while working class men face the precariousness of employment created by the informal economy in urban areas, the ex--combatants described their participation in the group as "dirty work," undertaken in the service of the state to maintain order and security, while also allowing them, as men, to support their families.

We use a broad range of material such as policy outlines, academic literature, and journalistic research to look at the impacts of natural disasters on critical infrastructures as well as on developments in creating resilient infrastructures, focusing on examples in the United States and Canada with a focus on a case study on Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017. This case study is based on a scoping review of the academic and grey literature on Hurricane Maria, its impacts on Puerto Rico and the response and recovery to the crisis.