Zeiderman, Austin (2016) Adaptive publics: building climate constituencies in Bogotá. Public Culture, 28 (2). pp. 389-413. ISSN 0899-2363
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Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://publicculture.org/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2016 by Duke University Press |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | F History United States, Canada, Latin America > F1201 Latin America (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races |
| Sets: | Departments > Geography and Environment Research centres and groups > LSE Cities (Cities Programme) |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Oct 2015 16:43 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/64120/ |
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