Endangered City

The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogotá

Austin Zeiderman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2016
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6162-6 (ISBN)

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Security and risk have become central to how cities are planned, built, governed, and inhabited in the twenty-first century. In Endangered City, Austin Zeiderman focuses on this new political imperative to govern the present in anticipation of future harm. Through ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in BogotÁ, Colombia, he examines how state actors work to protect the lives of poor and vulnerable citizens from a range of threats, including environmental hazards and urban violence. By following both the governmental agencies charged with this mandate and the subjects governed by it, Endangered City reveals what happens when logics of endangerment shape the terrain of political engagement between citizens and the state. The self-built settlements of BogotÁ’s urban periphery prove a critical site from which to examine the rising effect of security and risk on contemporary cities and urban life.

Austin Zeiderman is an anthropologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Preface vii

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction. The Politics of Security and Risk 1

1. Apocalypse Foretold 33

2. On Shaky Ground 63

3. Genealogies of Endangerment 93

4. Living Dangerously 131

5. Securing the Future 161

Conclusion. Millennial Cities 193

Coda 209

Notes 213

Bibliography 247

Index 269

Erscheinungsdatum	27.04.2016
Reihe/Serie	Global Insecurities
Zusatzinfo	29 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8223-6162-0 / 0822361620
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-6162-6 / 9780822361626
Zustand	Neuware