Endangered City

Endangered City
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 293
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ISBN-10 : 9780822374183
ISBN-13 : 0822374188
Rating : 4/5 (188 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Endangered City by : Austin Zeiderman

Download or read book Endangered City written by Austin Zeiderman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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