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...City and Country The divide between city and country shapes the nation’s culture and politics in the present, as it has done for centuries. Part III highlights the boundary between rural and urban in Colombia while also attending to the ways that boundary is traversed and the interdependence...

... the politics of risk and security in contemporary cities. The introduction presents the methodological approach to the research and reviews Colombia’s turbulent modern history, which shapes how contemporary urban life is governed and lived. It then describes the variety of ways in which security has been...

..., and victimhood that those with little other recourse to state benefits negotiate the official imperative to protect life from a range of threats. Examining the relationship between liberalism and security in Colombia, and the way their objectives and ideals have been fused over the past decade, reveals why...

... This chapter discusses a pair of events that continue to influence the politics of life and death in Colombia: the siege of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá by M-19 guerrillas and the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano that triggered a mudslide that buried the town of Armero. Centering...

... the world. Barrancabermeja illustrates how the upward redistribution of global wealth emerges from a wellspring of imposed disorder and how the spatial coordinates of class power in Colombia have recohered around regional development poles based in extractive industries. These nodes of capitalist power...