Immanent Politics in the Kampungs: Gendering, Performing and Mapping the Jakarta Economic Subject

Tilley, Lisa

doi:10.1057/978-1-349-95182-6_3

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“…The context for this research is what has been described as the ‘evictions regime’ enacted in Jakarta under the recent governorship of Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok) from November 2014 to early 2017 (see Tilley, ; Wilson, ; Eddyono et al, ; Irawaty, ). This evictions regime followed a long history of urban poor dispossession in the city but signified a notable intensification both in terms of the numbers evicted, and in terms of the injustice in the way the evictions themselves were effected.…”

Section: Evoking ‘Unsanitary’ Spaces and Behaviours In The Making Of mentioning

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Urban evictions, public housing and the gendered rationalisation of kampung life in Jakarta

Tilley

Elias

Rethel

2019

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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The dispossession of urban communities across class and racial lines is a global phenomenon linked to the expansion of international investment in the development of ‘exemplary’ city space. However, city evictions are also historically informed and gendered processes which are continuous with past colonial and postcolonial urban rationalisation projects. Drawing on testimonies of women evictees in Jakarta, as well as interviews with public housing managers, this article details the gendered nature of the rationalisation of urban life in the context of a contemporary evictions regime. We argue that the rationalisation of urban space serves to sharpen the gender order by placing material constraints on women's roles, limiting their economic activities and defining them as hygiene‐responsible housewives. Further, and in turn, the limited provision of ‘rusunawa’ public housing, which we show to be a gendered spatial and social transition informed by state doctrine on the family, provides the state with justification for dispossession itself. Finally, women's everyday acts of refusal and resistance show not only that kampung forms of social life continue to be preserved in Jakarta, but also that rationalisation itself is a negotiated and contingent process.

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Section: Evoking ‘Unsanitary’ Spaces and Behaviours In The Making Of mentioning

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Urban evictions, public housing and the gendered rationalisation of kampung life in Jakarta

Tilley

Elias

Rethel

2019

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“…Such analyses have been applied to various types of struggles and diversified ranges of issues in FPE scholarship. Some recent examples include but are not limited to the following: agriculture (Leder et al, 2019), water (Adams et al, 2018;Truelove, 2019), climate change (Gonda, 2019;Nightingale, 2017;Ojeda et al, 2020;Sultana, 2018), land (Lamb et al, 2017;Mollett, 2017;Vaz-Jones, 2018), extractive industries (Elmhirst et al, 2017), payment for ecosystem services (Bee, 2019), conservation (Gillespie and Perry, 2019), biodiversity (Bezner-Kerr, 2014), species/animals (Doubleday and Adams, 2019), health (Barry and Grady, 2019), masculinities (Behzadi, 2019;Rose and Johnson, 2017;Shrestha et al, 2019), tourism (Cole, 2017), housing (Tilley, 2017;Tummers and MacGregor, 2019), migration (Baada et al, 2019), queer ecologies (McKeithen, 2017), and resistance (de Vos and Delabre, 2018; Graddy-Lovelace, 2017). This necessarily short list of examples illustrates recent, expanding work in FPE that advances theorizations into other fields of analyses and bodies of scholarship.…”

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Political ecology 1: From margins to center

Sultana

2020

Progress in Human Geography

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Some epistemologies remain marginalized in political ecology. Here I demonstrate why it is important to learn from various relational margins to further advance the field. Insights and critiques from feminisms and decolonial theories have enriched and expanded political ecology in nuanced ways, yet they continue to remain relegated to the margins. I contend that it is vital to engage and advance different forms of intersectional, interdisciplinary, and international feminist inquiries to address ongoing socioecological crises at the current conjuncture. Different epistemological, methodological, pedagogical, and praxis insights showcase how and why representation matters if we are to pursue decolonial futures and solidarities.

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“…That is to say, CM has contributed to the communities’ enhanced capacity to satisfy their own basic needs and develop resilience in the prolonged absence of government interventions. Nevertheless, despite their socio‐economic potential, kampung people and their informal livelihoods are often stigmatized as a ‘parasitic burden’ (Tilley, 2017; Tilley et al ., 2019) for causing many problems, e.g. traffic jams or flooding in the metropolitan city.…”

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Social innovation in times of flood and eviction crisis: The making and unmaking of homes in the Ciliwung riverbank, Jakarta

Widyaningsih

Broeck

2021

Singap J Trop Geogr

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This study considers displacement occurring around the Jakarta flood mitigation projects between 2015-17 and explores the emergence of social innovation by affected kampung communities along the Ciliwung River. A framework combining theories on domicide and social innovation is developed to scrutinize two main case studies, Bukit Duri and Kampung Tongkol, revealing their connection to the city's urban development trajectory as well as the continuous struggle over adequate housing for low-income groups. The study questions official plans, policies and responses towards flood-induced displacement and resettlement planning. It also brings social innovation into the debate to unpack how displacement became a key moment for transformative change. The paper argues that, although urban eviction is related to globalization, outcomes are not foreclosed. Predominant urban mechanisms are contested, shaped, and transformed by local communities.

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Immanent Politics in the Kampungs: Gendering, Performing and Mapping the Jakarta Economic Subject

Cited by 9 publications

References 22 publications

Urban evictions, public housing and the gendered rationalisation of kampung life in Jakarta

Urban evictions, public housing and the gendered rationalisation of kampung life in Jakarta

Political ecology 1: From margins to center

Social innovation in times of flood and eviction crisis: The making and unmaking of homes in the Ciliwung riverbank, Jakarta

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