In recent years, feminist movements in Egypt have negotiated with gendered logics of governance oriented around the imperative to protect women from sexual harassment. Meanwhile, in Brazil, activists ...
Austin Zeiderman
Austin Zeiderman is Research Fellow in LSE Cities at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His forthcoming book focuses an ethnographic lens on the politics of security and risk in Bogotá, and he is currently beginning a new project on port expansion in the city of Buenaventura on Colombia’s Pacific coast. He can be reached at A.Zeiderman@lse.ac.uk. 
Arts of Security
Being “against security” would be absurd in a place like Colombia, where my research is based. People from all over the country have suffered through decades of armed conflict only to now face new ...