Endangered city : the politics of security and risk in Bogotá / Austin Zeiderman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zeiderman, Austin, 1976- author.

Series:

Global insecurities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergency management--Government policy--Colombia--Bogotá.

Emergency management.

Natural disasters--Colombia--Bogotá--Planning.

Natural disasters.

Risk management--Colombia--Bogotá.

Risk management.

Urban policy--Colombia--Bogotá.

Urban policy.

Emergency management--Government policy.

Natural disasters--Planning.

Planning.

Colombia.

Bogot.

Colombia--Bogotá.

Physical Description:

xix, 290 pages : illustrations ; 23.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

The politics of security and risk

Apocalypse foretold

On shaky ground

Genealogies of endangerment

Living dangerously

Securing the future

Millennial cities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822361435

0822361434

9780822361626

0822361620

9780822374183

0822374188

OCLC:

932108123