Abidin Kusno
Biographic Data
| ID | 224127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abidin Kusno |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abidin |
| FAMILY NAME | Kusno |
| SIGNATURE | KUSNO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4685-914X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
David Reeve. To Remain Myself: The History of Onghokham
Indonesian historian Onghokham was “the best guide to Indonesia,” and he could be “the serious historian, the public intellectual, the sexual being, the quiet lover, or the hedonist and party host” (298). He was also “a maverick, an eccentric, an alcoholic, and an outsider who became an insider, [with] a mischievous wit” (295), as David Reeve writes in his biography of Onghokham—which is extraordinary for exposing virtually everything about Ong. …
Feminist Cyberlaw
This vibrant and visionary reimagining of the field of cyberlaw through a feminist lens brings together emerging and established scholars and practitioners to explore how gender, race, sexuality, disability, class, and the intersections of these identities affect cyberspace and the laws that govern it. It promises to build a movement of scholars whose work charts a near future where cyberlaw is informed by feminism
Jakarta: City of a Thousand Dimensions
A 90th birthday tributeAnthony D. King: An appreciation
The work of Anthony D. King is among the very best of recent urban and global studies. This essay is a tribute in appreciation of Tony King as a scholar, mentor, and friend. It discusses some of his major contributions in the fields of global cities research, colonial and postcolonial urban studies, as well as his views on knowledge and positionality in relation to the location within which he is embedded. It is a mix of anecdotal and analytical …
Jakarta
This entry offers an overview of Jakarta and major dimensions of scholarship over time following the changes in the social and political contexts of Indonesia. It also indicates future directions in the research on the city.
Escape from Jakarta
The lack of planning can be understood as an art of governing, for it ensures the operation of informality
Middling urbanism: The megacity and the kampung
This essay shows that irregular settlements (known as kampung) are constitutive parts of urban development in Jakarta as well as in the city’s extended peri-urban areas. It argues that the persistence, location and functionality of kampung at the outskirt of Jakarta or in middle of the city constitutes a phenomenon of “middling-urbanism.” A large part of the essay outlines the condition, connection and the socio-political contexts that have contr…
The Life and Work of Thomas Karsten , by Joost Coté, Hugh O’Neill, Pauline K.M. Roosmalen, and Helen Ibbitson Jessup
Cultural Dynamics in a Globalized World: Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Depok, Indonesia, November 7-9, 2016: Topics in Arts and Humanities
The book contains essays on current issues in arts and humanities in which peoples and cultures compete as well as collaborate in globalizing the world while maintaining their uniqueness as viewed from cross- and inter-disciplinary perspectives. The book covers areas such as literature, cultural studies, archaeology, philosophy, history, language studies, information and literacy studies, and area studies. Asia and the Pacific are the particular …
After the New Order: Space, Politics, and Jakarta
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 hou…
Visual Cultures of the Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia
Behind the Postcolonial: Architecture, Urban Space and Political Cultures in Indonesia
In Behind the Postcolonial Abidin Kusno shows how colonial representations have been revived and rearticulated in postcolonial Indonesia. The book shows how architecture and urban space can be seen, both historically and theoretically, as representations of political and cultural tendencies that characterize an emerging as well as a declining social order. It addresses the complex interactions between public memories of the present and past, betw…
Robbie Peters. Surabaya, 1945–2010: Neighbourhood, State and Economy in Indonesia’s City of Struggle . Singapore: NUS Press, 2013, 272 p
Before moving to Jakarta, I lived in Surabaya as a student from 1982 to 1990.The Surabaya of then was just beginning to represent itself as a world class city with the new landmarks of Tunjungan Plaza and later Delta Plaza, forming a belt of international hotels, offices, and shopping malls around kampung neighborhoods.Little did I realize that the city then was undergoing a major transformation marked by a shift from a city of work to a space of…
After the New Order: Space, Politics, and Jakarta
This book 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, the book deepens our understanding of the spatial mediation of power, the interaction between elite …
Housing the Margin: Perumahan Rakyat and the Future Urban Form of Jakarta
The green governmentality in an Indonesian metropolis
The current interest in the ‘clean and green’ that has become part of urban governmentality in Indonesia's metropolis is illustrative of the practice of becoming a citizen of Jakarta today. The ongoing demand to reclaim and produce green space, however, entails the displacement of those who are considered to be blocking the success of urban green initiatives. This paper points to ways in which contemporary forms of power are built on the premise …
Runaway city: Jakarta Bay, the pioneer and the last frontier
This essay deals with the theme of city and nation by looking at the recent history of city branding and the mega waterfront project on the north coast of Jakarta. It offers a political geography of Jakarta and teases out the environmental exhaustion of the city and the critique of ecological movements, which begin to constitute a new stage in environmental consciousness for the post-Suharto era
The Appearances of Memory: Mnemonic Practices of Architecture and Urban Form in Indonesia
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Whither Nationalist Urbanism? Public Life in Governor Sutiyoso's Jakarta
This paper shows how Jakarta has been engaged in an unprecedented politics of memory since the collapse of Suharto's regime. It argues that the nationalist discourses of the city dressed in the ideology of 'nationalist urbanism' no longer appear to hold the influence that they once did in the face of the changing regime. This situation has given rise to a sense of 'looseness' at the centre, which in turn has encouraged both the government and the…
Rudolf Mrazek, Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony
From City to City: Tan Malaka, Shanghai and the Politics of Geographical Imagining
This paper focuses on the geographical imagining and agency of colonised people by exploring particular accounts in the life‐experience manuscript of Tan Malaka (1897‐1949), a displaced Indonesian “radical”, who found himself in Shanghai in January 1932 and engulfed in the semi state of war between China and Japan. It traces the ways in which this adventure in Shanghai both shaped and was shaped by how this “hero of national independence” confron…
Remembering/Forgetting the May Riots: Architecture, Violence, and the Making of "Chinese Cultures" in Post-1998 Jakarta
Research Article| January 01 2003 Remembering/Forgetting the May Riots: Architecture, Violence, and the Making of “Chinese Cultures” in Post-1998 Jakarta Abidin Kusno Abidin Kusno Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 149–178. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-15-1-149 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Abidin Kusno; Remembering/Forget…
Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony
On Be(ij)ing in the World: “Postmodernism,” “Globalization,” and the Making of Transnational Space in China
Behind the Postcolonial: Architecture, Urban Space and Political Cultures in Indonesia
In Behind the Postcolonial Abidin Kusno shows how colonial representations have been revived and rearticulated in postcolonial Indonesia. The book shows how architecture and urban space can be seen, both historically and theoretically, as representations of political and cultural tendencies that characterize an emerging as well as a declining social order. It addresses the complex interactions between public memories of the present and past, betw…
The Appearances of Memory: Mnemonic Practices of Architecture and Urban Form in Indonesia
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Middling urbanism: The megacity and the kampung
This essay shows that irregular settlements (known as kampung) are constitutive parts of urban development in Jakarta as well as in the city’s extended peri-urban areas. It argues that the persistence, location and functionality of kampung at the outskirt of Jakarta or in middle of the city constitutes a phenomenon of “middling-urbanism.” A large part of the essay outlines the condition, connection and the socio-political contexts that have contr…
Whither Nationalist Urbanism? Public Life in Governor Sutiyoso's Jakarta
This paper shows how Jakarta has been engaged in an unprecedented politics of memory since the collapse of Suharto's regime. It argues that the nationalist discourses of the city dressed in the ideology of 'nationalist urbanism' no longer appear to hold the influence that they once did in the face of the changing regime. This situation has given rise to a sense of 'looseness' at the centre, which in turn has encouraged both the government and the…
Remembering/Forgetting the May Riots: Architecture, Violence, and the Making of "Chinese Cultures" in Post-1998 Jakarta
Research Article| January 01 2003 Remembering/Forgetting the May Riots: Architecture, Violence, and the Making of “Chinese Cultures” in Post-1998 Jakarta Abidin Kusno Abidin Kusno Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 149–178. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-15-1-149 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Abidin Kusno; Remembering/Forget…
Housing the Margin: Perumahan Rakyat and the Future Urban Form of Jakarta
Runaway city: Jakarta Bay, the pioneer and the last frontier
This essay deals with the theme of city and nation by looking at the recent history of city branding and the mega waterfront project on the north coast of Jakarta. It offers a political geography of Jakarta and teases out the environmental exhaustion of the city and the critique of ecological movements, which begin to constitute a new stage in environmental consciousness for the post-Suharto era
Beyond the Postcolonial: Architecture and political Cultures in Indonesia
Research Article| September 01 1998 Beyond the Postcolonial: Architecture and political Cultures in Indonesia Abidin Kusno Abidin Kusno Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1998) 10 (3): 549–575. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10-3-549 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Abidin Kusno; Beyond the Postcolonial: Architecture and political Cultures i…
Beyond the Postcolonial: Architecture and political Cultures in Indonesia
Research Article| September 01 1998 Beyond the Postcolonial: Architecture and political Cultures in Indonesia Abidin Kusno Abidin Kusno Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1998) 10 (3): 549–575. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10-3-549 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Abidin Kusno; Beyond the Postcolonial: Architecture and political Cultures i…
On Be(ij)ing in the World: “Postmodernism,” “Globalization,” and the Making of Transnational Space in China
Behind the Postcolonial: Architecture, Urban Space and Political Cultures in Indonesia
In Behind the Postcolonial Abidin Kusno shows how colonial representations have been revived and rearticulated in postcolonial Indonesia. The book shows how architecture and urban space can be seen, both historically and theoretically, as representations of political and cultural tendencies that characterize an emerging as well as a declining social order. It addresses the complex interactions between public memories of the present and past, betw…
Postmodernism and China
Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony
Rudolf Mrazek, Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony
From City to City: Tan Malaka, Shanghai and the Politics of Geographical Imagining
This paper focuses on the geographical imagining and agency of colonised people by exploring particular accounts in the life‐experience manuscript of Tan Malaka (1897‐1949), a displaced Indonesian “radical”, who found himself in Shanghai in January 1932 and engulfed in the semi state of war between China and Japan. It traces the ways in which this adventure in Shanghai both shaped and was shaped by how this “hero of national independence” confron…
Remembering/Forgetting the May Riots: Architecture, Violence, and the Making of "Chinese Cultures" in Post-1998 Jakarta
Research Article| January 01 2003 Remembering/Forgetting the May Riots: Architecture, Violence, and the Making of “Chinese Cultures” in Post-1998 Jakarta Abidin Kusno Abidin Kusno Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 149–178. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-15-1-149 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Abidin Kusno; Remembering/Forget…
Whither Nationalist Urbanism? Public Life in Governor Sutiyoso's Jakarta
This paper shows how Jakarta has been engaged in an unprecedented politics of memory since the collapse of Suharto's regime. It argues that the nationalist discourses of the city dressed in the ideology of 'nationalist urbanism' no longer appear to hold the influence that they once did in the face of the changing regime. This situation has given rise to a sense of 'looseness' at the centre, which in turn has encouraged both the government and the…
The green governmentality in an Indonesian metropolis
The current interest in the ‘clean and green’ that has become part of urban governmentality in Indonesia's metropolis is illustrative of the practice of becoming a citizen of Jakarta today. The ongoing demand to reclaim and produce green space, however, entails the displacement of those who are considered to be blocking the success of urban green initiatives. This paper points to ways in which contemporary forms of power are built on the premise …
Runaway city: Jakarta Bay, the pioneer and the last frontier
This essay deals with the theme of city and nation by looking at the recent history of city branding and the mega waterfront project on the north coast of Jakarta. It offers a political geography of Jakarta and teases out the environmental exhaustion of the city and the critique of ecological movements, which begin to constitute a new stage in environmental consciousness for the post-Suharto era
The Appearances of Memory: Mnemonic Practices of Architecture and Urban Form in Indonesia
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Housing the Margin: Perumahan Rakyat and the Future Urban Form of Jakarta
Robbie Peters. Surabaya, 1945–2010: Neighbourhood, State and Economy in Indonesia’s City of Struggle . Singapore: NUS Press, 2013, 272 p
Before moving to Jakarta, I lived in Surabaya as a student from 1982 to 1990.The Surabaya of then was just beginning to represent itself as a world class city with the new landmarks of Tunjungan Plaza and later Delta Plaza, forming a belt of international hotels, offices, and shopping malls around kampung neighborhoods.Little did I realize that the city then was undergoing a major transformation marked by a shift from a city of work to a space of…
After the New Order: Space, Politics, and Jakarta
This book 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, the book deepens our understanding of the spatial mediation of power, the interaction between elite …
Behind the Postcolonial: Architecture, Urban Space and Political Cultures in Indonesia
In Behind the Postcolonial Abidin Kusno shows how colonial representations have been revived and rearticulated in postcolonial Indonesia. The book shows how architecture and urban space can be seen, both historically and theoretically, as representations of political and cultural tendencies that characterize an emerging as well as a declining social order. It addresses the complex interactions between public memories of the present and past, betw…
Visual Cultures of the Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia
Cultural Dynamics in a Globalized World: Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Depok, Indonesia, November 7-9, 2016: Topics in Arts and Humanities
The book contains essays on current issues in arts and humanities in which peoples and cultures compete as well as collaborate in globalizing the world while maintaining their uniqueness as viewed from cross- and inter-disciplinary perspectives. The book covers areas such as literature, cultural studies, archaeology, philosophy, history, language studies, information and literacy studies, and area studies. Asia and the Pacific are the particular …
After the New Order: Space, Politics, and Jakarta
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 hou…
The Life and Work of Thomas Karsten , by Joost Coté, Hugh O’Neill, Pauline K.M. Roosmalen, and Helen Ibbitson Jessup
Jakarta
This entry offers an overview of Jakarta and major dimensions of scholarship over time following the changes in the social and political contexts of Indonesia. It also indicates future directions in the research on the city.
Escape from Jakarta
The lack of planning can be understood as an art of governing, for it ensures the operation of informality
Middling urbanism: The megacity and the kampung
This essay shows that irregular settlements (known as kampung) are constitutive parts of urban development in Jakarta as well as in the city’s extended peri-urban areas. It argues that the persistence, location and functionality of kampung at the outskirt of Jakarta or in middle of the city constitutes a phenomenon of “middling-urbanism.” A large part of the essay outlines the condition, connection and the socio-political contexts that have contr…
A 90th birthday tributeAnthony D. King: An appreciation
The work of Anthony D. King is among the very best of recent urban and global studies. This essay is a tribute in appreciation of Tony King as a scholar, mentor, and friend. It discusses some of his major contributions in the fields of global cities research, colonial and postcolonial urban studies, as well as his views on knowledge and positionality in relation to the location within which he is embedded. It is a mix of anecdotal and analytical …
Jakarta: City of a Thousand Dimensions
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Asian Studies and History (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (11 works) · History (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Architecture (6 works)