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

"Extraordinarily well-grounded in ethnographic research and urban and social theory, Endangered City makes a significant contribution to debate about the ways that contemporary urban governance is shaped by actual and discursive engagement with the notion of risk. It will appeal to a wide range of scholars who study the rapidly transforming cities of the global South and to urbanists concerned more broadly with citizenship and governance." — Diane E. Davis, author of, Urban Leviathan: Mexico City in the Twentieth Century

"Endangered City offers a compelling and critical analysis of how concerns with security and risk have displaced other rationalities of government—such as development, democracy, and welfare—in contemporary Colombia, rearranging the field of political possibilities. Austin Zeiderman combines masterful ethnographic and archival research to reveal both the mundane practices and the various modalities of power that intersect in the management of life-at-risk. Taking us well beyond Colombia, Zeiderman's bold theorization considers the problems of framing urban and political life in terms of threat." — Teresa Caldeira, author of, City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in São Paulo

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