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Titre
Jakarta, Drawing the City Near
Sujet
Jakarta, Indonésie, bidonvilles, pauvreté, vie urbaine, disparités
Description
Jakarta, a city rife with disparities like many cities in the Global South, is undergoing rapid change. Alongside its megastructures, high-rise residential buildings, and franchised convenience stores, Jakarta’s massive slums and off-hour street markets foster an unsettled urban population surviving in difficult conditions. But where does the vast middle of urban life fit into this dichotomy? In Jakarta, Drawing the City Near, AbdouMaliq Simone examines how people who comprise the largest part of the population, such as the craftsmen, shopkeepers, and public servants, navigate and affect positive developments.
In a city where people of diverse occupations operate in close proximity to each other, appearance can be very deceptive. Familiar with this place that on the surface seems remarkably dysfunctional, Simone guides readers through urban spaces and encounters, detailing households, institutions, markets, mosques, and schools. Over five years he engaged with residents from three different districts of the city, and now he parses out the practices, politics, and economies that form present-day Jakarta while revealing how those who face uncertainty manage to improve their lives.
Simone illustrates how the majority of Jakarta’s population, caught between intense wealth and utter poverty, handles confluence and contradictions in their everyday lives. By exploring how inhabitants from different backgrounds regard each other, how they work together or keep their distance in order to make the city in which they reside endure, Jakarta, Drawing the City Near offers a powerful new way of thinking about urban life.
AbdouMaliq Simone is research professor at the University of South Australia. He is the coeditor and author of several books, including Urban Africa: Changing Contours of Survival in the City and City Life from Jakarta to Dakar: Movements of the Crossroads.
In a city where people of diverse occupations operate in close proximity to each other, appearance can be very deceptive. Familiar with this place that on the surface seems remarkably dysfunctional, Simone guides readers through urban spaces and encounters, detailing households, institutions, markets, mosques, and schools. Over five years he engaged with residents from three different districts of the city, and now he parses out the practices, politics, and economies that form present-day Jakarta while revealing how those who face uncertainty manage to improve their lives.
Simone illustrates how the majority of Jakarta’s population, caught between intense wealth and utter poverty, handles confluence and contradictions in their everyday lives. By exploring how inhabitants from different backgrounds regard each other, how they work together or keep their distance in order to make the city in which they reside endure, Jakarta, Drawing the City Near offers a powerful new way of thinking about urban life.
AbdouMaliq Simone is research professor at the University of South Australia. He is the coeditor and author of several books, including Urban Africa: Changing Contours of Survival in the City and City Life from Jakarta to Dakar: Movements of the Crossroads.
Créateur
AbdouMaliq Simone
Source
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/jakarta-drawing-the-city-near
Éditeur
University of Minnesota Press
Date
2014
Format
320
Langue
EN
Type
Ouvrage