The wheels of misfortune: the street and cycles of displacement in Surabaya, Indonesia.
This focus of this paper is not Surabaya's increasingly free-flowing streets, but the people those streets displace. Based on research in a low-income neighbourhood, or kampung, of Indonesia's second largest city, this paper shows how the street facilitates displacement and exacerbates the marginalisation of underemployed kampung men. This argument is set against the struggles over the use of public space between Surabaya's kampung residents and the municipality since independence and is grounded through the biographical detail of seven kampung men over the ten years since the economic crisis of 1998.
Peters
Robbie
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Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia.
D004208:Displacement, Psychological; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D007214:Indonesia / Q000208:ethnology; D011633:Public Facilities / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D012918:Social Alienation / Q000523:psychology; D012923:Social Class / Q000266:history; D012924:Social Conditions / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014478:Unemployment / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology; D014504:Urban Health / Q000266:history; D014505:Urban Population / Q000266:history; D014507:Urbanization / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence