Jakarta, Drawing the City Near
AbdouMaliq Simone
Abstract
By examining the ways in which the central city of Jakarta continues to accommodate different practices of life and types of residents, the book attempts to reframe the conventional discussion and analysis of urbanism in the Global South and to demonstrate how these heterogeneities can give rise to new theoretical formulations of urban life in general. The unique features include a sustained engagement with populations often left out of urban analysis, an inventive back and forth dialogue between heuristic theoretical concepts and empirical materials generated by different positions in the fie ... More
Keywords: Global South urbanism, urban politics, relational economy, sustainable development, city life, megacity, technicity, Jakarta, people as infrastructure
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 | Print ISBN-13: 9780816693351 |
| Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: August 2015 | DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816693351.001.0001 |
