In urban Latin America social housing developments have become a strategy to (re)centre territorial sovereignty with the state, by relocating low-income populations from informal settlements controlled by organized criminal groups. Yet criminal groups wield significant influence in new social housing developments, and states’ monopoly on violence continues to be contested. While studies of urban housing in the region have largely disregarded matters of urban security, research on urban security has ignored houses as material agents. Bridging studies of housing and studies of urban security, I promote a broad understanding of security that conceives the cumulative effect of diverse threats to residents’ livelihoods. By doing so, I further de...
Medellín, Colombia, a city best known for its violent history and subsequent radical transformation,...
"La Cuidad de los Reyes and los Amigos PoliciasAn Anthropological Approach to Everyday Practices of ...
In recent years, metropolitan growth has been associated with the increase of social inequalities an...
The increase in violence in Latin America has led public institutions to promote citizen participati...
The policies of mano dura contra el crimen, implemented in Puerto Rico in the decade of the 1990's, ...
We are trying to present an emerging problem in urban societies in Latin America which is part of th...
This paper deals with the rise and fall of social housing in Colombia in the context of national and...
Public housing projects reserved for low-income families in Puerto Rico are known as caseríos. A cas...
This paper aims at the recollection of theoretical elements which would enable for an adequate defin...
Este artículo tiene por objetivo explorar las relaciones entre hábitat popular y ciudad a efectos de...
The following research calls into question some of the most deeply held assumption that have been ma...
In the context of growing concern with violence in Latin American and Caribbean cities this paper of...
This essay develops the concept of protective arrangements (a socio-material relationship between ho...
This paper addresses the distinctive characteristics of policies focused on illegally occupied villa...
Medellín, Colombia, a city best known for its violent history and subsequent radical transformation,...
Medellín, Colombia, a city best known for its violent history and subsequent radical transformation,...
"La Cuidad de los Reyes and los Amigos PoliciasAn Anthropological Approach to Everyday Practices of ...
In recent years, metropolitan growth has been associated with the increase of social inequalities an...
The increase in violence in Latin America has led public institutions to promote citizen participati...
The policies of mano dura contra el crimen, implemented in Puerto Rico in the decade of the 1990's, ...
We are trying to present an emerging problem in urban societies in Latin America which is part of th...
This paper deals with the rise and fall of social housing in Colombia in the context of national and...
Public housing projects reserved for low-income families in Puerto Rico are known as caseríos. A cas...
This paper aims at the recollection of theoretical elements which would enable for an adequate defin...
Este artículo tiene por objetivo explorar las relaciones entre hábitat popular y ciudad a efectos de...
The following research calls into question some of the most deeply held assumption that have been ma...
In the context of growing concern with violence in Latin American and Caribbean cities this paper of...
This essay develops the concept of protective arrangements (a socio-material relationship between ho...
This paper addresses the distinctive characteristics of policies focused on illegally occupied villa...
Medellín, Colombia, a city best known for its violent history and subsequent radical transformation,...
Medellín, Colombia, a city best known for its violent history and subsequent radical transformation,...
"La Cuidad de los Reyes and los Amigos PoliciasAn Anthropological Approach to Everyday Practices of ...
In recent years, metropolitan growth has been associated with the increase of social inequalities an...