Living dangerously: Biopolitics and urban citizenship in Bogotá, Colombia

Zeiderman, Austin

doi:10.1111/amet.12006

Cited by 69 publications

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“…Extending from Foucauldian appraisals of the power‐knowledge nexus in the production of discursive and material realities, a growing number of scholars have been interrogating the ways in which climate change (Grove, ; Paprocki, ), sustainability (Escobar, , ; Kusno, ; Swyngedouw, ), risk (O'Malley, , ; Zeiderman, , , ) and resilience (Joseph, ; Daouk, ; Welsh, ) discourse are mobilised in support of political objectives and logics of governance. As discussed by Zeiderman (: 3), risk is a characteristic feature of Foucauldian appraisals of ‘modern society’ and seen to be at the heart of the transition to liberalism.…”

Section: Disaster Risk Management: a ‘Crisis Of Modern Futurity’mentioning

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Worlding aspirations and resilient futures: Framings of risk and contemporary city‐making in Metro Cebu, the Philippines

Ramalho

2019

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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In the Philippines, calls for creating ‘global’, ‘sustainable’ and ‘resilient’ cities are placing urban poor communities in increasingly precarious positions. These communities have long been the targets of urban development and ‘modernisation’ efforts; more recently the erasure of informal settlements from Philippine cities is being bolstered at the behest of climate change adaptation and disaster risk management (DRM) agendas. In Metro Cebu, flood management has been at the heart of DRM and broader urban development discussions, and is serving as justification for the demolition and displacement of informal settler communities in areas classed as ‘danger zones’. Using Kusno's (2010) interpretation of the ‘exemplary centre’ as a point of departure, this paper interrogates the relationship between DRM, worlding aspirations (Roy and Ong, 2011) and market‐oriented urbanisation in Cebu, and considers the socio‐spatial implications of these intersecting processes for urban poor communities. Through analysing the contradictions inherent in framings of certain bodies and spaces as being ‘of risk’ or ‘at risk’ over others, I argue that the epistemologies of modernity, disaster risk and resilience endorsed and propagated by the state are facilitating processes of displacement and dispossession that serve elite commercial interests under the auspices of disaster resilience and pro‐poor development.

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Section: Disaster Risk Management: a ‘Crisis Of Modern Futurity’mentioning

confidence: 99%

Worlding aspirations and resilient futures: Framings of risk and contemporary city‐making in Metro Cebu, the Philippines

Ramalho

2019

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“…In particular recent work on embodiment and precarity in Southern cities has usefully analyzed social and political economic inequalities alongside corporeal experiences of pollution, precarity and environmental politics. They demonstrate how urban inequalities, governing ideologies, and social reproductive labor are inflected by class, gender, caste, race and ethnicity to not only contour embodied experiences of the urban environment but also produce differentiated subjectivities and claims‐making practices (Sultana, ; Casolo and Doshi, ; Zeiderman, ; Fredericks, ; Meehan and Strauss, ; Doshi, ). Studies of water, sanitation, and air pollution in urban India illustrate how the body emerges as a material and symbolically saturated site of everyday environmental subject formation and politics.…”

Section: Displacement Democracy and Environmental Subjectivity In Tmentioning

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Greening Displacements, Displacing Green: Environmental Subjectivity, Slum Clearance, and the Embodied Political Ecologies of Dispossession in Mumbai

Doshi¹

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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In Indian cities, informal ‘slum’ settlements have long been targeted for removal as an environmental improvement strategy, despite their relatively low impact. Slum clearance has escalated with the combination of speculative development and environmental change, creating uneven precarity throughout Mumbai's neighborhoods. State agents play a direct role in slum evictions, but they do not act unilaterally. Diverse lower‐income and middle‐class residents seeking better living conditions have sometimes converged in their embrace of slum clearances and resettlements that advance elite development interests. In other moments, the dispossessing effects of market‐based and elite‐biased slum rehabilitation have fomented contestation. This article analyzes how differently situated groups emerge as ‘environmental subjects’ that embrace or contest improvement projects. It suggests three dimensions of subject formation: governing logics and discourses of urban environmental improvement, the territorial politics of informality, and differentiated embodied experiences of precarity and dispossession. Environmental subject formation is explored through two interventions that entail slum clearance—mangrove and green space conservation and an urban transport infrastructure project. Findings suggest that the connection between displacement and improvement cannot be explained through theories of environmental gentrification but require attention to the simultaneously inclusive and dispossessing regimes of postcolonial development.

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“…The persistence of everyday concerns about insecurity has many implications. One is that democracy and security have been fused such that a number of rights and entitlements have been reconfigured by the imperative to protect life from threat (Rojas 2009;Zeiderman 2013;cf. Goldstein 2012).…”

Section: From Endangered City To Resilient Citymentioning

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Adaptive Publics: Building Climate Constituencies in Bogotá

Zeiderman¹

2016

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This essay foregrounds the political constituencies assembling around the problem of climate change in cities. Recent experiments in urban climate governance in Bogotá, Colombia, are shown to challenge liberal democratic notions of the “public” by linking a redistributive economic agenda to the technical project of adaptation. An analysis of interventions aimed at building social infrastructure throughout the city’s hydrological systems reveals how the inclusion of the urban poor is enacted through practices of measurement. While urban politics in Latin America has long revolved around popular demands to be counted, climate change adaptation is the most recent idiom in which claims to recognition-through-enumeration are being articulated.

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Living dangerously: Biopolitics and urban citizenship in Bogotá, Colombia

Cited by 69 publications

References 37 publications

Worlding aspirations and resilient futures: Framings of risk and contemporary city‐making in Metro Cebu, the Philippines

Worlding aspirations and resilient futures: Framings of risk and contemporary city‐making in Metro Cebu, the Philippines

Greening Displacements, Displacing Green: Environmental Subjectivity, Slum Clearance, and the Embodied Political Ecologies of Dispossession in Mumbai

Adaptive Publics: Building Climate Constituencies in Bogotá

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