Reseña

When future historians reflect on the last two decades, the role of fear in shaping buildings, cities and urban life will undoubtedly be central to their considerations. The scars provoked by the “war on terror and drugs,” the North American consequences of an intensifying crisis in the Middle East following 9/11, growing violence in the streets of Canada and the U.S., armed conflicts in large parts of the Mexican territory, and the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis have together produced new relations of insecurity at multiple and overlapping scales, from the body to the transnational territory. The production and experience of fear has been further magnified by the inequality and dispossession following the 2008 financial crisis, and more recently, a deadly global pandemic. How can we make sense of the insecurities in North America? How does fear transform the objects that surround us and the built environment we live in? Is there a transborder aesthetics of fear?