Endangered City : The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogota

Name: Endangered City
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 9780822361626
Price: 5050 KES
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ISBN: 9780822361626

by Austin Zeiderman

Book Details

Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Global Insecurities

ISBN-10 0822361620

ISBN-13 9780822361626

Publisher Duke University Press

Imprint Duke University Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 27th, 2016

Print length 312 Pages

Weight 468 grams

Dimensions 22.90 x 15.20 x 2.20 cms

Product Classification: South America History of the Americas Urban communities / city life Urban communities Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography Social and cultural anthropology History of the Americas

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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.

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