PUBLICATIONS
Book
Under Review Urbanism as Warfare: Planning, In/security, and the Remaking of Downtown Bogotá.
Articles and Chapters
2023 “The Archaeology of Decay: Ruinous Knowledge and the Violence of Urban Planning.” American Anthropologist 125(3): 505-518.
2020 “Materializing (In)securities: Urban Terrain, Paperwork, and Housing in Downtown Bogotá.” Anthropological Quarterly 93(1): 1491-1522.
2020 “‘The Miracle of Density’: The Socio-material Epistemics of Urban Densification.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 44(4): 617-635.
2020 “An Anatomy of Failure: Planning After the Fact in Contemporary Bogotá.” In Life Among Urban Planners: Practices, Professionalism, and Expertise in the Making of the City. J. Mack and M. Herzfeld, eds. University of Pennsylvania Press.
2016 “Excavating Legal Landscapes: Juridical Archaeology and the Politics of Bureaucratic Materiality in Bogotá, Colombia.” Cultural Anthropology, 30(2): 215-243.
2015 “Urban Renewal in Context.” In De la Renovación a la Revitalización: Desafíos para Bogotá. Bogotá: Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá y Secretaría Distrital de Planeación. [In Spanish]
2010 “Laboratories of Urban Reconstruction: Towards an Anthropology of Urban Policy in Colombia.” Antípoda No.10 (Antropología de la Política Pública), Enero – Junio 2010: 51-84. Online Version. [In Spanish]
Reviews & Essays
2020 For the War Yet to Come by Hiba Bou Akar. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. Society and Space Book Forum.
2020 Bogotá’s Urban Development Conflicts: Insecurity & Memory in the City. Items: Insights from the Social Sciences (Layered Metropolis Series), Social Science Research Council, Online Publication.
2016 Endangered City: the politics of security and risk in Bogotá by Austin Zeiderman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Anthropological Quarterly, 89(4): 1227-1237.
2015 "Post-Conflict Urbanism and The Logics of Warfare In Colombia." Fieldsights - Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology Online, April 30, 2015. Online Version.
2013 “Peopling Space: Contemporary Redevelopment in Bogotá.” openDemocracy (Cities in Conflict), 4 March 2013. Online Version.
2012 “Bogotá: Up Against the City.” The Caravan: A Journal of Politics and Culture. October 2012. Online Version.
Other publications
2009 Bogotá, from decay to construction 1995-2007, co-authored with Alicia Eugenia Silva, Francisco Ruiz and Tomás Martín. Bogotá: Universidad del Rosario. [In Spanish].