Tagged: Urban political ecology
Sumit Vij, Timos Karpouzoglou, and Vishal Narain challenge the myth of the formal (state controlled) water as ‘piped’ water versus the informal (non-state) water as ‘non-piped’. Their ethnographic work illustrates how these two water...
Jakarta piped water system is almost a hundred years old. Nila Ardhianie and Marie Belland argue that it has not changed much since the colonial times, carrying a legacy of social inequality and ecological...
Semarang, one of the largest city in Indonesia, is currently hit by the worst flood of the last ten years. The response by the Government relies on giant flood infrastructure. In this collective piece...
This blogpost was written by Neha Mungekar. The tour guide, holding his travel agency’s flag up in the air, confidently describes the history of the brick-lined water canal as part of his rehearsed and solemn...