Endangered City: The Politics of Risk and Security in Bogotá

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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. Cover ......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 16 Introduction: The Politics of Security and Risk......Page 22 Chapter 1: Apocalypse Foretold ......Page 54 Chapter 2: On Shaky Ground ......Page 84 Chapter 3: Genealogies of Endangerment ......Page 114 Chapter 4: Living Dangerously ......Page 152 Chapter 5: Securing the Future ......Page 182 Conclusion: Millennial Cities ......Page 214 Coda ......Page 230 Notes......Page 234 Bibliography......Page 268 A......Page 290 B......Page 291 C......Page 292 D......Page 294 E......Page 296 F......Page 297 H......Page 298 I......Page 299 L......Page 300 M......Page 301 N......Page 302 P......Page 303 R......Page 305 S......Page 307 T......Page 309 V......Page 310 Z ......Page 311