Endangered City - The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogota

Informationen zum Autor Austin Zeiderman is an anthropologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Klappentext Austin Zeiderman is an anthropologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface  vii Acknowledgments  xv Introduction. The Politics of Security and Risk  1 1. Apocalypse Foretold  33 2. On Shaky Ground  63 3. Genealogies of Endangerment  93 4. Living Dangerously  131 5. Securing the Future  161 Conclusion. Millennial Cities  193 Coda  209 Notes  213 Bibliography  247 Index  269

Product details

• Authors: Austin Zeiderman
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9780822361435
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6143-5
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Global Insecurities; Global Insecurities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology