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Submergence: precarious politics in Colombia's future port-city

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This article examines popular politics under conditions of protracted precarity in the rapidly expanding port-city of Buenaventura on Colombia’s Pacific coast. It begins by identifying the intersecting economic, ecological, and political forces contributing to the precarity of life in Buenaventura’s intertidal zone. Focusing on conflicts over land in the waterfront settlements of Bajamar (meaning “low-tide”), it then describes the efforts of Afro-Colombian settlers and activists to defend their territories against threats of violence and displacement. In doing so, they must navigate historical legacies of ethno-racial politics as well as formations of liberal governance and their multicultural and biopolitical logics of vulnerability and protection. The socio-material conditions of the intertidal zone, and in particular the figure of submergence, are used to illuminate the forms of political life in Colombia’s future port-city. The struggles of Afro-Colombians to contest violent dispossession in Buenaventura reflect the racialized politics of precarity under late liberalism.

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  • Zeiderman, Austin, 2016. "Submergence: precarious politics in Colombia's future port-city," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 64116, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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    1. Cristina Rojas, 2009. "Securing the State and Developing Social Insecurities: the securitisation of citizenship in contemporary Colombia," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(1), pages 227-245.
    2. Scott Rodgers & Clive Barnett & Allan Cochrane, 2014. "Where is Urban Politics?," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 38(5), pages 1551-1560, September.
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    Keywords

    race; violence; displacement; urban politics; sea; ports; liberalism;
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