Endangered City : The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogota Paperback / softback
by Austin Zeiderman
Part of the Global Insecurities series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages, 29 illustrations
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:27/05/2016
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- ISBN:9780822361626
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Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages, 29 illustrations
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:27/05/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9780822361626
