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table of contents
  1. Introduction
  2. Part I Planning Battlegrounds
    1. 1. Downtown Ground Zero
    2. 2. The City as Terrain
  3. Part II The Counterepistemics of Insecurity
    1. 3. The Violence of Bureaucracy
    2. 4. Ruinous Knowledge
  4. Part III The Limits of Urban Expertise
    1. 5. Territory by Design
    2. 6. Progressive Fictions
  5. Epilogue
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Notes
  8. References
  9. Index

Index

Alcaldía, 64, 114, 116, 155, 222

Arango, Andrés Pastrana, 59

Andrés, 157, 161, 164, 169–70, 172–74

Avenida de los Cerros, 42–43

Bogotá, 51–52, 59, 62, 67, 73, 75, 81, 111, 180–81, 235; and activists, 233; administration of, 1, 12; and affluent neighborhoods, 15–16; and Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá, 114; and beautification projects, 34; and Carrera Décima, 36; and Centro de Memoria Paz y Reconciliación, 25; and city center, 1–2, 4, 14–15, 19, 28, 31–32, 34–39, 40–41, 58, 63, 73, 92–94, 110, 112, 124–25, 128–29, 132–33, 138, 142, 151, 155–56, 167–68, 177, 193, 200, 210, 217, 219, 221–22, 233; and ciudad memoria, 49; and Ciudad Memoria, 27; and criminal violence, 31; and cultural center, 103–4; culture of, 70; and decay, 129–30; and densification, 38, 158, 183; and development, 47; and El Cartucho, 61; and elite, 146; and Empresa de Renovación Urbana de Bogotá D.C., 102; and historical memory, 26; and insecurity, 10; and Instituto de Crédito Territorial (ICT), 39–40; and main plaza, 1; and MEPOT, 179; north, 131, 185; and political violence, 30, 35, 156; and renewal plans, 17–19, 30, 44, 193, 203; and Sabana de Bogotá, 184; and Secretaría Distrital de Planeación, 13–14; and security, 253n76; and terrorism, 4; and theater festival, 250n113; uprising, 219; and urban governance, 12; and urban planning, 28–30, 33, 41, 55, 124, 160–61, 163–64, 166, 185, 188–89, 192, 237–38; and urbanization, 19; and urban mafias, 2; and urban protest, 42; and urban warfare, 228; west, 140; and western periphery, 39

Bogotá Humana, 2

Bronx, 52

bureaucracy, 10, 14, 94, 120–21, 161; aesthetics of, 90, 107; forms of, 90; landscapes of, 101; materialities of, 91, 106; practices of, 89; state, 71; urban, 17, 90, 116, 150; violence of, 266n32

bureaucratic activism, 116

bureaucratic artifacts, 89–91, 106–7, 119, 254n6

bureaucratic force, 4, 15–16

bureaucratic infrastructure, 37

bureaucratic insecurity, 93, 96, 98

bureaucratic knowledge, 105, 107

bureaucratic logics, 3

bureaucratic management, 161

bureaucratic power, 120

bureaucratic routines, 14

bureaucratic socialización, 203

bureaucratic violence, 3, 15, 89, 92, 115, 117–18, 120

Calle Real, 1

capitalism, 6, 8, 29, 95, 98, 127, 149, 201, 257n84, 263n45; and “creative destruction”, 54; and expansion, 53, 100; and exploitation, 45; global, 65; neoliberal, 260n3; and productivity, 211; racial, 128; and urbanization, 127

capitalist colonial modernity, 187–88, 209

capitalist development, 38, 42, 48, 94, 128, 226, 255n41

Cementerio de los Pobres, 25, 29

Center for Planning and Urbanism (CPU), 198–200

citizenship, 5, 10, 189, 196, 200, 203, 219, 228, 237–38; contradictions of, 120; and governance, 129, 151; infrastructure, 116; and law, 128; liberal, 92; middle-class, 39; modalities of, 116; and nation building, 14; practices of, 109; propertied, 99, 101, 119, 128, 141, 226; and property, 92, 95, 99, 110, 150, 196; regimes of, 120; spaces of, 13; traumatic, 115; urban, 12; and urban governance, 29; and urbanity, 122

cocinol, 220–22

Consejo Territorial de Planeación Distrital (CTPD), 169

Consuelo, 75–78

Cortés, Jorge Gaitán, 38, 64–65

counterinsurgency, 2, 7, 19, 31, 35, 38, 41, 75, 197, 229, 243n8, 249n73, 253n74

critical knowledges, 105, 107, 125, 127, 151, 195, 232–33, 237

critical planners, 174, 176, 178

critical sites, 13–14, 127

densification, 41, 156–57, 159, 167, 171, 178, 184, 199; ecology of, 168; fragmented, 166; inclusionary, 179, 192; and inevitability, 183; inner-city, 20, 31; language of, 173; management of, 169; naturalized, 172; participatory, 16; policies, 176; patchwork, 165; planned, 15, 38, 181, 185; urban, 14, 19, 160; and urbanization, 180

displacement, 3, 5, 15, 20, 35, 37, 41, 43–46, 61, 74–75, 91, 101, 113–14, 130, 144, 190, 193, 213–14, 217, 228, 237; administrative, 110; covert, 17; deterioration, 145; forced, 146, 149, 160, 195; global, 150; inner-city, 132, 192; market-driven, 8; militarized, 79, 83; paramilitary, 226; and renewal, 193, 195; rural, 200; state, 204, 222; urban, 9, 110–11, 146, 218, 146, 218; violent, 29, 89–90, 117–20, 128, 225, 234

dispossession, 4, 29, 90, 102, 107, 116, 128, 140, 151, 188, 190, 228, 232, 264n3, 267n56; accumulation by, 255n41; and appropriation, 266n37; bureaucratic, 114; colonial, 104; and control, 55; economic, 4; injustice of, 117; land, 101, 206, 226; materiality of, 105; and reconstruction, 195; state, 217; strategies of, 149; structures of, 91; threats of, 217; urban, 193; victims of, 118; violent, 56, 105, 113, 255n41, 260n10; and warfare, 89

downtown Bogotá, 14, 58, 64, 69, 78, 87, 138, 146, 157–58; and antieviction campaigns, 125; and decay, 150, 196, 210; and densification, 20; and development, 19; and displacement, 41–42; and El Cartucho, 158; and infrastructure, 88; and insecurity, 120; and intensification, 26; and mafias, 2; and migrants, 65; and neighborhoods, 18, 35, 73, 80, 93, 97; and political violence, 28; and reconstruction, 32–33; and renewal, 17, 30, 42, 44–45, 83, 90–92, 103, 124–25, 151, 159, 193, 199; residents of, 34; and revitalization, 1; as securityscape, 37; and security talk, 5; and Séptima, 32; and sovereignty, 95; and state security, 31; streets of, 33, 35; tenements of, 36, 39, 43; and transformation of, 3, 15–16, 29, 37, 63, 70; and urban epistemologies, 4; and urbanization, 40; and urban landscape, 29; and urban planning, 38, 149, 198; and urban poor, 194; and warfare, 48. See also Bogotá.

economic access, 95

economic activity, 131–32

economic development, 17, 158, 194, 204

economic dispossession, 4

economic growth, 38, 197

economic marginalization, 119

economic power, 63

El Bogotazo, 25, 28, 30–35, 37, 45, 57–58, 196–97, 200, 234

El Bronx, 52, 229–32

El Cartucho, 51–57, 59–64, 66–78, 80–83, 125, 131–34, 146, 158, 229, 253n76

Empresa de Renovación Urbana (Company of Urban Renewal), 64, 87, 102, 114, 118, 134, 230

epistemology, 16, 48–49, 56, 59, 62–63, 74, 83, 89, 98, 100–1, 109, 122, 126–30, 138, 159, 166, 195, 237, 257n87; and counterepistemologies, 90, 107; and decay, 133–36; and density, 160, 185; and destruction, 54, 82; and epistemic communities, 18, 177; and epistemic contingency, 12; and epistemic disjuncture, 210; and epistemic engagements, 12, 20, 90, 232; and epistemic forms, 4, 6, 10; and epistemic frameworks, 5, 20, 105; and epistemic hierarchies, 223; and epistemic jurisdictions, 11; and epistemic practices, 92, 119–20, 150; and epistemic praxis, 208; and epistemic relations, 11; and epistemic spaces, 18–19, 67, 93, 149; and epistemic struggles, 29, 206, 226; and epistemic violence, 196, 205, 265n11, 266n31; and experimentation, 207; and experts, 193; and Grupo POT, 157; and legal activism, 110; and multiplicity, 188; nationalist, 5; planning, 91, 149, 238; progressive, 151, 193; of security, 187; subaltern, 128, 226; technocratic, 7; urban, 4, 57; and urban reconstruction, 55; and urban value, 141

Escobar, Arturo, 187–88, 209

Escobar, Pablo, 98

ethnography, 9, 13, 17, 56, 163, 243n10, 246n84, 251n18, 253n74, 256n67, 257n84

evictions, 3, 7, 9, 35, 40, 43, 98, 102–3, 105, 108, 113–14, 119, 124, 127, 138, 140, 160, 191–92, 222, 246n69; and antieviction campaigns, 125; bureaucratized, 149; and infrastructural development, 130; and Paulina, 142, 147; urban, 145

expertise, 4–5, 8, 30, 35, 63, 99, 155, 182, 187–88; anthropology of, 12; and counterexpertise, 18, 110, 142; and counterinsurgency, 41; development, 130; ecology of, 16, 246n69; and epistemologies, 136; financial, 209; and Grupo POT, 156–69, 172–76, 186; legal, 106–7, 204; planning, 10, 15–16, 19, 29, 37, 54, 56, 68, 71–74, 133, 196, 198, 203, 244n35; and policymakers, 17; practices of, 15; and public sites, 14; scientific, 66; street, 90, 120; technocratic, 197; university, 16, 193, 203, 207–8, 211, 217, 219, 223; urban, 11, 13, 18, 20, 64–67, 93, 129–30, 149, 151, 176; and urban law, 97, 263n49; and warfare, 70

expropriation, 16, 37, 44, 89, 104, 106, 109–11, 118, 124, 135–36, 138–40, 142, 165, 217, 224, 246n70

Fidalgo, Andrés Salcedo, 215, 243n5

Francisco, 92–95, 100, 105, 120–21

Gaitán, Jorge Eliécer, 26, 31–35, 38, 123, 129, 219–20

Góngora, Andrés, 232

González, Beatriz, 26, 28

González, José Jairo, 161

González, Roberto, 76

Gordillo, Gastón, 53, 149, 246n84, 250n13, 251n24

governance, 4, 66, 73, 89, 166, 186, 200, 225, 237–38; apparatus of, 147; crisis of, 64; forms of, 232; ideals of, 95, 129; local, 195; modernist, 196, 265n22; and planning, 64; and property, 204; regimes of, 151; state, 118; strategies of, 65; technocratic, 95, 195; territorial, 192; urban, 2, 5, 8, 11–12, 14, 29, 65, 90, 119, 149, 196, 252n67, 253n76

graffiti, 103–5, 198, 230–31, 235–37

Grupo POT, 156–57, 161, 163–66, 169–70, 172–76, 186

guerrilla forces, 25, 46, 60–62, 89, 95, 104, 113–15, 145, 213–14, 236

guerrilla fronts, 3, 229

guerrilla organizations, 27, 42–43

Hernando, 87–89, 91, 96, 98–99, 101–2, 104–5, 111, 115–20, 124

housing, 4, 103, 111, 124, 155, 159, 200; access to, 76, 173, 178; activism, 31, 175; affordable, 48, 83, 173, 177–79, 182; construction of, 65; development, 248n56; forms of, 210; middle-class, 37; mixed-income, 17, 199; policy, 41, 245n45; projects, 44; replacement, 141, 212; segregation, 183; self-help, 248n56; shared, 210–11; social, 38; student, 96; subsidized, 132, 138, 176–78, 182, 186; urban, 39–40, 200, 215; working-class, 41

illegality, 70, 115, 143, 230

Indigenous people, 57–58, 69, 104, 113, 120, 129, 187, 206, 209, 233–34

infrastructure, 14, 32, 55, 81, 83, 109, 234–35, 237–38; and demolitions, 34; and development sectors, 159; discursive, 11; global informational, 65; institutional, 186; layered, 56; local, 173; material, 116, 128; physical, 37; and property development, 35; public, 74, 157, 165, 169–70, 172, 177, 179, 183; road, 88, 165; security, 245n48; social, 54, 73, 76; spaces, 160; transit, 142; transportation, 37; and violence, 30

insecurity, 4–6, 9–11, 49, 65, 113, 124–25, 134, 138, 147, 234; bureaucratic, 93, 96, 119; experience of, 53, 58; ideologies of, 63, 67; juridical, 101, 110; knowledge of, 90; language, 3; and progress, 195; repertoires of, 14–15, 89, 140; representations of, 12; territorial, 68, 193; urban, 70, 238; and urban space, 47; and violence, 28, 30, 68, 72, 91, 116, 120, 128, 145, 194

Institute of Urban Development, 43, 73

Instituto de Crédito Territorial (ICT), 39

Jaramillo, Samuel, 42–43

Jaramillo, Sergio, 186

La Alameda, 15, 123–24, 128, 130, 135–36, 138, 142, 144, 149–50

Las Aguas, 15, 87, 93–94, 96–97, 99–100, 103, 106, 108, 190–93, 195, 197–201, 209–10, 213–15, 217–18, 221–22, 225, 228, 241, 266n31, 266n37; No Se Tomen Las Aguas, 219–20, 223, 227

Las Nieves, 57

legal activism, 110–11

legal force, 102

legal frameworks, 14, 37, 47, 164, 177

legal geography, 19

legalism, 89, 106, 171, 259n55

legality, 91, 106, 112, 114–15, 143

legal knowledge, 16

legal order, 149–50

legal pressure, 104

legal rationality, 112

legal security, 217

legal theft, 94

legal violence, 195, 260n67, 264n7

local communities, 75, 188

local functionaries, 3

local governance, 195, 213

local histories, 16, 97

local institutions, 115–16, 220

local knowledge, 81–82, 96, 107, 119–20, 127, 138, 226, 232

local media, 31

local socialities, 11, 73, 135

Los Angeles, 231

Los Llanos, 3

Lucía, 69–70, 72–73, 179–80

Manzana Cinco (Block Five), 19, 87, 89–92, 94–120, 124, 128, 145, 150–51, 190–92, 194, 218, 257n87

materiality, 3, 15, 48, 53, 69, 81, 107, 118, 147–50, 193, 237, 245n36, 255n39, 264n7, 267n52; bureaucratic, 19, 90, 106; and dispossession, 105; and eviction, 102; and insecurity, 72, 120; and knowledge, 82; legal, 254n8; and property regimes, 89; and temporality, 145; of territory, 159, 188; urban, 11, 20, 30, 56, 68, 234, 245n36; and urban space, 54, 126; and violence, 70, 106

Monumento a los Héroes, 235

Néstor, 73–74, 76–78

Nueva Santa Fe, 44–47

nonviolence, 26

Palacio de Justicia, 46–47, 49, 60

Parque Tercer Milenio, 50–51, 55, 64, 229, 253n76, 254n23; and city officials, 56; construction of, 19, 61–62, 69, 125, 131, 158; and Consuelo, 75, 78; and demolitions, 80, 82; and materiality, 53; and Néstor, 73–74; presentations of, 70; and technocratic knowledge, 66–67; and urban humanitarianism, 76; and urban renewal, 83, 156; and urban security, 54, 63

Paulina, 123–24, 142–45, 147, 149, 259n57

Peñalosa, Enrique, 12–13, 26–28, 49, 63–70, 76, 83, 132, 159, 174, 183–84, 229, 252n51, 254n23

Pérez, Mariano Ospina, 35, 37

Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial (POT), 13–14, 19, 133, 155–60, 171, 177–79, 183, 185, 192, 237–38, 261n15, 262n42; Exceptional Modification (MEPOT), 179–80, 183–84. See also Grupo POT

Plaza de Bolívar, 1, 35, 44, 46–49, 52, 57, 151, 155, 157, 217, 250n113; Paseo Bolívar, 35

police, 40–45, 50, 52, 60–61, 68, 70, 77–81, 83, 117, 140; authority, 10; and counterinsurgency, 229; and evictions, 110; intervention, 74; and Police Code, 102; repression, 39, 190–91, 222, 226–27, 230, 234; riot, 47, 231, 267n4; troops, 6; violence, 8, 230, 235, 238

political-economic hierarchies, 196

political-economic structures, 130, 188, 224

political economy, 29, 100, 181, 189, 206

political genocide, 47

political geography, 20

political imaginaries, 12, 68, 107, 163

political order, 149–50

political organizing, 42, 160

political technology, 14

political violence, 5, 25, 28, 30, 40, 49, 58, 108, 189, 196–97, 219, 228

poverty, 8–10, 58, 67, 70, 74–75, 125–26, 217, 224

power, 7, 11, 29, 35, 39, 43–45, 53, 60, 64, 129, 147, 160, 167, 252n65; arrangements of, 194; and biopower, 244n29, 246n72; bureaucratic, 120; and circulation, 261n13; coloniality of, 94; ecologies of, 224; economic, 63; differentials, 196, 205–6, 213, 217, 220, 225; dynamics, 212; and geometrics, 163; global, 127; instruments of, 256; and knowledge, 142; military, 37, 68; networks of, 150; and protest, 188; regimes of, 127; relations, 17–18, 41–42, 98, 139, 158, 266n37; state, 5, 14, 36, 91, 106, 108, 264n73; structures, 226, 267n52; symbols of, 33; tellurian, 262n38; trajectories, 95; urban, 127, 219; voids of, 186

Progresa Fenicia (Fenicia Progresses), 20, 191–96, 198–200, 202–4, 206–14, 217–20, 222–28, 266n31, 266n37, 267n52

Quinta de Bolívar, 198

reconstruction, 2, 4, 14, 32, 36, 40, 72, 76, 97, 131, 139, 168, 193–94, 224; Bogotazo, 37–38, 58, 129; dialectics of, 19; and dispossession, 195; histories of, 15; processes of, 18, 48; radical, 35, 63; urban, 3, 30, 37, 43, 55, 61, 203, 215

revitalization, 1–2, 15–16, 19–20, 32, 193, 206, 212, 218, 243n4; urban, 124, 132, 151, 176, 191, 207, 263n45

San Andrés, 113

San Francisco, 57

San Francisco River, 58, 88, 200

Santa Bárbara, 44–45, 57, 70, 217, 249n87

Santa Fe, 128, 130, 135–36, 143–44, 149–50, 259n55, 259n57

Santa Inés, 15, 50, 53, 56–60, 62, 65, 82

San Victorino, 57–59, 64, 66–68, 142, 146, 260n74

security, 2, 5–6, 14, 30, 45, 55, 93, 130, 132, 134, 143, 191, 212, 217–18; agents, 8; and apparatus, 4; discourses, 7; effects of, 10; epistemologies of, 187; frameworks, 10, 17; and governance, 65–66, 196; human, 17, 195, 24, 246n71, 264n8; ideologies, 8–9, 12–13; idioms, 3; juridical, 224; knowledges, 9, 19; language of, 3, 185; logics, 17, 73–74; and militarism, 43; narratives, 11; national, 13, 19, 35, 41, 44, 243n8; and order, 136, 141; paradigms, 237; and policing, 77; and self-defense, 59; and sovereignty, 20; state, 31, 42, 46, 48, 54; and territorial order, 63, 163; urban, 15, 18, 37, 54, 61, 245n36, 253n76; and urbanism, 8; and value, 127; and violence, 188

socioeconomic census, 61, 76, 209

socioeconomic development, 39, 78–79, 93

socioeconomic stratification, 138, 179

sociospatial control, 43, 58

sociospatial dynamics, 93

sociospatial identities, 139

sociospatial justice, 176, 234

sociospatial order, 15

sociospatial realities, 10

sociospatial segregation, 45, 179

sociospatial strategy, 172

sociospatial structures, 30

sovereignty, 3–4, 13, 20, 29, 61, 73, 96, 244n29, 246n72; crisis of, 66; fragmented, 95, 254n21; modern, 186, 260n3; postcolonial, 113; state, 3, 48, 56, 62, 67, 90, 264n57; territorial, 14; urban, 30, 102

technocracy, 7–8, 13, 15, 17, 37, 39, 56, 63–67, 95, 159, 161, 163, 174, 193, 202, 226–27, 263n43; and expertise, 197; and governance, 195; liberal, 198

territorial authority, 29

territorial control, 6, 19, 30, 37, 48, 55, 72, 75, 83, 95, 131, 145, 160, 163, 166, 185, 188, 193, 213, 238

territorial governance, 192

territorial imaginaries, 178

territorial insecurity, 193

territoriality, 186, 260n10

territorial ordering, 20, 63, 112, 151, 156, 175, 179, 186–87, 199, 260n10

territorial peace, 186

territorial sovereignty, 14, 101

territorial space, 105

territorial struggles, 54, 59, 63, 105, 218, 264n73

territorial technology, 158

territorial vision, 180

topography, 57, 72–73, 88, 157–58, 161, 166, 184, 198; natural, 55; social, 14, 53; urban, 15

Universidad de los Andes, 16, 88, 106, 168, 190, 192–98, 200–1, 204–6, 217–19, 225, 227

urban beautification, 1, 34

urban citizenship, 12

urban control, 36

urban decay, 1, 81, 94, 124–27, 129–31, 133–36, 145, 150, 232

urban densification, 14, 19, 160

urban density, 20, 38, 158, 168, 183

urban design, 1, 3, 55, 70, 187

urban destruction, 31, 149, 164

urban development, 27, 31, 41, 43, 53, 65, 127–28, 145, 156, 164, 165–66, 185, 188, 197, 226, 256n47, 262n40

urban environments, 15, 55, 58

urban expertise, 20, 64, 66, 90, 163

urban interventions, 35, 101, 109, 228

urbanism, 18, 26, 99, 119, 156, 174, 185, 195, 238, 245n45, 263n45; contemporary, 127; counterrevolutionary, 37; entrepreneurial, 96; fragment, 268n15; pedagogical, 13; neoliberal, 9; new military, 4; modernist, 186; progressive, 226; residential, 181; and security, 8; securitized, 4; smart, 261n23; speculative, 137; strategic-military, 37; sustainable, 214; vertical, 245n48; violence of, 29, 49; as warfare, 17, 188, 237

urbanization, 19, 29, 38, 40–41, 55, 74, 89, 95, 127, 177, 183–84, 196, 251n20

urban knowledges, 4, 7–8, 10, 12, 15–17, 20, 29, 54, 56, 66, 68, 122, 188, 195–96, 209, 215, 228, 231, 238, 245n51, 254n10

urban landscapes, 3–4, 10, 21, 29, 37

urban law, 10, 92, 96–97, 107, 142, 165, 175, 177

urban legalism, 89

urban life, 3, 20–21, 42, 45, 90, 93, 101, 105–6, 149, 200

urban mafias, 2

urban memory, 49

urban middle class, 104

urban modernization, 35

urban order, 14

urban planning, 93, 175, 188, 267n52; and Colombia, 10, 29, 39, 41, 260n3; and the countryside, 29; and density, 185; and El Cartucho, 70; and ethnography, 251n18; modernist, 66; profession, 55; and renewal, 48, 90; and security, 187; and violence, 30, 232; and warfare, 28

urban policing, 10, 235

urban poor, 2, 33, 44, 95, 98, 178, 193–94, 220, 266n34

urban poverty, 126

urban practices, 18

urban professionals, 16

urban property, 19, 115, 213, 217

urban rebuscador, 97–98

urban reconstruction, 4, 30, 37, 43, 55, 61

urban renewal, 17, 45–46, 63, 74–76, 79, 81, 83, 87, 90, 92, 94, 103, 105, 108, 110, 114, 116, 119–20, 124, 128–29, 137, 142–43, 151, 156–57, 160, 190, 193, 199, 203, 219, 230, 234, 237, 258n34, 265n27

urban revanchist, 8

urban securitization, 4, 11, 15

urban security, 15, 54

urban sensorium, 98–100, 255n32

urban sovereignty, 30, 102

urban space, 4, 6, 9, 18–20, 30, 49, 56, 59, 67–68, 72, 83, 126, 132, 157–58, 172, 185, 191, 227, 233–36, 250n113, 263n45

urban sprawl, 179, 184

urban technocracy, 66

urban topography, 15

urban transformation, 15, 17, 32, 43, 48, 53, 151, 166, 225, 237

urban value, 138–39, 141, 171

urban victimhood, 119

urban voids, 130

urban zones, 172

violence, 79–80, 83, 91, 127, 140, 142–43, 146, 149–50, 188, 212–13, 231–32; and Bogotá, 33, 43, 77; bureaucratic, 3, 15, 89–90, 92, 106, 115, 117–18, 120; cartel, 29, 62; and Colombia, 94, 141, 189, 191, 200; colonial, 243n2; criminal, 4, 31, 59, 98; culture of, 5, 13; drug, 5; and El Cartucho, 52–54, 59–61, 63, 68, 70, 72; epistemic, 196, 205, 266n31; and historical memory, 25–26; and insecurity, 12, 116, 128, 145, 194; institutional, 118; land, 4, 195, 217–18, 225, 228; and migrants, 15, 129; mob, 33; narratives of, 3; paramilitary, 89, 113; para(state), 17; political, 3, 25, 28, 30, 32, 49, 58, 108, 160, 196–97, 219, 228; postcolonial, 29; property, 102, 225; racial, 8, 104; resistance of, 9; rural, 35, 38, 214; state, 19, 35, 46–48, 101, 105, 109–10, 114, 117, 128, 193, 195, 214–15, 233, 236, 250n113, 256n66, 268n20; territorial, 105; urban, 10, 21, 29, 95, 97, 219, 234, 237; and urban housing, 40

warfare, 4, 6, 43, 114, 234, 251n25, 257n87; class, 223; counterinsurgent, 17; expansion of, 53; forms of, 91; geography of, 62; governance, 195; grammar of, 90; guerrilla, 5, 55, 108, 249n100; histories of, 2, 27, 48–49, 59, 89, 107, 149, 268n20; instruments of, 91; land, 30; and legality, 106, 110; logics of, 29, 48, 70–71, 149, 251n18, 253n76; militarized, 15; paramilitary, 5; politics of, 68; repertoires of, 54; rural, 5, 89, 110, 197; territorial, 105; terrain of, 55–56, 62, 68, 70, 72–73; urban, 31, 34, 46–47, 60, 67, 74, 233, 245n45; and urbanism, 17, 119, 188, 195, 228, 237–38; and urbanization, 55, 251n20; and urban planning, 28; and urban renewal, 128

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