Subjects taught at LSE | Services and divisions (administration)

 

All research groups | Research subject areas

 
 
A-Z site index | Contact | Maps | Jobs|
Home > Research and expertise > Experts > Profile

Zeiderman, Austin

Dr Austin Zeiderman  

Department

Position held

Department of Geography and Environment

Assistant Professor of Urban Geography

 

LSE Cities

Research Associate

 

Non LSE positions held

Center for Social Studies, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Research Affiliate

 

Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History

Visiting Researcher

 

Experience keywords:

cities; citizenship; colonial and postcolonial history; development; disaster; environment; ethnography; globalization; law; race/ethnicity; rights; risk; science and technology; security; social theory; the state; uncertainty; urban governance; urban politics; urbanism

Research summary > [Click to expand]

Austin Zeiderman is an interdisciplinary scholar who specializes in the cultural and political dimensions of cities, with a specific focus on Latin America. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University as well as a Master of Environmental Science degree from Yale University and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Colgate University. His book, Endangered City: The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogotá (2016, Duke UP), focuses on how security and risk shape the relationship between citizens and the state in the self-built settlements of the urban periphery. Austin is also beginning a new research project on urban, environmental, and infrastructural transformations motivated by the promise of a post-conflict future in Colombia. Aspects of Austin’s research have appeared in a range of venues, such as Antipode, Environment and Planning A, Public Culture, American Ethnologist, openDemocracy, and the Guardian. He has received fellowships and awards from the Fulbright Program, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation. From 2012 to 2014, Austin coordinated the Urban Uncertainty project at LSE Cities, where he remains a Research Associate. Raised in Philadelphia, he has previously worked on urban and environmental issues in Baltimore and San Francisco.

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Colombia; Latin America

Languages:

Spanish [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 6831

LSE email:

a.zeiderman@lse.ac.uk

Alt phone number:

+44 (0) 20 7955 7706

Alt email:

austin.zeiderman@gmail.com

Publications

2016

Zeiderman, Austin and Anand, Nikhil and Daniels, Stephen and Wolch, Jennifer and Swyngedouw, Erik and Gandy, Matthew (2016) Book review: the fabric of space: water, modernity and the urban imagination The AAG Review of Books, 4 (3). 179-190. ISSN 2325-548X

Zeiderman, Austin (2016) Adaptive publics: building climate constituencies in Bogotá Public Culture, 28 (2). 389-413. ISSN 0899-2363

Zeiderman, Austin (2016) Endangered city: the politics of security and risk in Bogotá Global Insecurities. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, USA. ISBN 9780822361626

Zeiderman, Austin (2016) Submergence: precarious politics in Colombia's future port-city Antipode, 48 (3). 809-831. ISSN 1467-8330

Zeiderman, Austin (2016) Prognosis past: the temporal politics of disaster in Colombia Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 22 (S1). 163-180. ISSN 0307-3114

2015

Zeiderman, Austin (2015) Zones of uncertainty: governing urban environmental hazards In: Samimian-Darash, Limor and Rabinow, Paul, (eds.) Modes of Uncertainty: Anthropological Cases. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, USA. ISBN 9780226257105

Zeiderman, Austin and Kaker, Sobia Ahmad and Silver, Jonathan David and Wood, Astrid (2015) Uncertainty and urban life Public Culture, 27 (2). 281-304. ISSN 0899-2363

2014

Zeiderman, Austin (2014) Commentary on: 'Pandemic prophecy, or how to have faith in reason' by Carlo Caduff Current Anthropology, 55 (3). 312-315. ISSN 0011-3204

Zeiderman, Austin (2014) For Bogotá's desplazados, living in a high-risk zone is a very mixed blessing Guardian (28 Mar 2014) opinion

Zeiderman, Austin (2014) Security laboratories Public Books (15 Mar 2014) opinion

2013

Zeiderman, Austin (2013) Book review: arts of security Public Books (14 Feb 2013) Blog entry

Zeiderman, Austin (2013) El Cartucho ist verschwunden In: Moloch, Kiez und Boulevard: Die Welt Der Städte. Edition le monde diplomatique (14). taz Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 83-85. ISBN 9783937683454

Zeiderman, Austin (2013) Securing Bogotá Opendemocracy (14 Feb 2013) other

Zeiderman, Austin (2013) Living dangerously: biopolitics and urban citizenship in Bogotá, Colombia American Ethnologist, 40 (1). 71-87. ISSN 0094-0496

2012

Zeiderman, Austin (2012) On shaky ground: the making of risk in Bogotá Environment and Planning A, 44 (7). 1570-1588. ISSN 0308-518X

2010

Zeiderman, Austin and Ramírez Elizalde, Laura Astrid (2010) “Apocalypse foretold”: a shift in the politics of risk in Colombia since 1985 Revista de Ingeniería, 31. 119-131. ISSN 0121-4993

2008

Salcedo Fidalgo, Andrés and Zeiderman, Austin (2008) Antropología y ciudad: hacia un análisis crítico e histórico Antípoda: Revista de Antropologia y Arqueologia, 7. 63-97. ISSN 2011-4273

Zeiderman, Austin (2008) Cities of the future?: megacities and the space/time of urban modernity Critical Planning, Summer. 23-39. ISSN 1522-9807

2006

Zeiderman, Austin (2006) Ruralizing the city: the great migration and environmental rehabilitation in Baltimore, Maryland Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 13 (2). 209-235. ISSN 1070-289X

Expert Image

Personal website

Awards

Bernard J. Siegel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Written Expression by a PhD Student in Anthropology, Stanford University; Roy A. Rappaport Graduate Student Award, Anthropology & Environment Section, American Anthropological Association, Finalist; Graduate Essay Prize, Society for Urban, National, Transnational/Global Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, Honorable Mention LSE Student-led Teaching Excellence Award for Sharing Subject Knowledge

Browse the Experts Directory:

LSE Experts Directory|

Home

Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014|

Research impact (case studies and videos)|

Public Lectures and Events|

LSE Research Online|

Collection of LSE research outputs

LSE Consulting|

Service providing unique access
to LSE's expertise

Create or update your
online profile |

[access restricted to staff]

Research highlights|

Short articles about LSE research

Copyright © LSE 2016 | Page updated 22 May 2015
Comment on this page | Freedom of information | About this site | Social media LSE Social media listings page

Use of this website is subject to, and implies acceptance of, its Terms of use (including Copyright and intellectual property, Privacy and data protection and Accessibility). The London School of Economics and Political Science is a School of the University of London. It is a charity and is incorporated in England as a company limited by guarantee under the Companies Acts (Reg no. 70527).The registered office address of the School is: The London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK; Tel: +44 (0)20 7405 7686