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Can I read Endangered City: The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogotá (Global Insecurities) on EtoBox?
Endangered City: The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogotá (Global Insecurities) by Zeiderman, Austin is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Endangered City: The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogotá (Global Insecurities) about?
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.
Who reads Endangered City: The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogotá (Global Insecurities)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Zeiderman, Austin
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780822361435
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Management, Sociology, History
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (3 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14