Series: Writing Past Colonialism
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press (November 30, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0824837452
ISBN-13: 978-0824837457
Description :
After the New Order follows up Abidin Kusno’s well-received Behind the Postcolonial and The Appearances of Memory.
This new work explores the formation of populist urban programs in
post-Suharto Jakarta and the cultural and political contradictions that
have arisen as a result of the continuing influence of the Suharto-era’s
neoliberal ideology of development. Analyzing a spectrum of urban
agendas from waterfront city to green environment and housing for the
poor, Kusno deepens our understanding of the spatial mediation of power,
the interaction between elite and populist urban imaginings, and how
past ideologies are integral to the present even as they are newly
reconfigured.
The book brings together eight chapters that examine
the anxiety over the destiny of Jakarta in its efforts to resolve the
crisis of the city. In the first group of chapters Kusno considers the
fate and fortune of two building types, namely the city hall and the
shop house, over a longue duree as a metonymy for the culture,
politics, and society of the city and the nation. Other chapters focus
on the intellectual legacies of the Sukarno and Suharto eras and the
influence of their spatial paradigms. The final three chapters look at
social and ecological consciousness in the post-Suharto era. One
reflects on citizens’ responses to the waterfront city project, another
on the efforts to “green” the city as it is overrun by capitalism and
reaching its ecological limits. The third discusses a recent low-income
housing program by exploring the two central issues of land and
financing; it illuminates the interaction between the politics of urban
space and that of global financial capitalism. The epilogue, consisting
of an interview with the author, discusses Kusno’s writings on
contemporary Jakarta, his approach to history, and how his work is
shaped by concerns over the injustices, violence, and environmental
degradation that continue to accompany the city’s democratic transition.
After the New Order will be essential reading for
anyone―including Asianists, urban historians, social scientists,
architects, and planners―concerned with the interplay of space, power,
and identity.
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