Rita Padawangi
Biographic Data
| ID | 342803 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rita Padawangi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rita |
| FAMILY NAME | Padawangi |
| SIGNATURE | PADAWANGI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8050-7711 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
City and the Temptation to Overlook: Critical Reflections from Indonesia on Urban Development and Methods of Counter-overlooking in the Field
The concept of ‘overlooked cities’ calls for a research agenda to critically examine the actors and processes involved in power relations, analyse the production of knowledge on cities and increase collaboration with grassroots organisations in studying cities, with the intention to reshape urban policies and planning practices. This research agenda warrants further inquiry into how the concept can help when researchers face urban conditions in t…
Resilience As Heritage in Asia
River Cities in Asia: Waterways in Urban Development and History
Urban Development in Southeast Asia
Urbanization as a process is rife with inequality, in Southeast Asia as anywhere else, but resistance and contestation persist on the ground. In this element, the author sets out to achieve three goals: 1) to examine the political nature of urban development; 2) to scrutinize the implications of power inequality in urban development discussions; and 3) to highlight topical and methodological contributions to urban studies from Southeast Asia. The…
City building knowledge from neighbourhoods in Asia Pacific
Neighbourhoods are places of social encounters on a daily basis, but they are getting insufficient attention from policy makers and urban studies in conceptualising the city. While the city is often the unit of analysis and boundaries of data collection, social constructions of the city are mostly from neighbourhoods. By shifting the analysis to the neighbourhood scale, we are moving scholarship and research on two fronts. First, we need to think…
The kampung , the city and the nation: Bhinneka Tunggal Ika in the everyday urban life of Kampung Peneleh, Surabaya, Indonesia
Interpreted as ‘unity in diversity’, Indonesia's national politicians appropriated the slogan Bhinneka Tunggal Ika from a fourteenth century poem to legitimise one nation‐state for the diverse archipelago. As Indonesia becomes a rapidly urbanising country, the concepts of ‘unity’ and ‘diversity’ intertwine with changing landscapes and societies. With the growth of cities as centres of population and economic activities, the intensity of developme…
Forced evictions, spatial (un)certainties and the making of exemplary centres in Indonesia
This article considers the relationship between forced evictions and the ‘exemplary centre’ through an examination of three urban waterfront sites in Indonesia in comparative perspective. How is the notion of the ‘exemplary centre’ related to forced evictions and the aspirations of marginalised populations in contemporary cities of Indonesia? What are the chances of asserting alternative ideologies when a capital‐centric and modernist vision of t…
Cities in Asia by and for the People
Cities in Asia
Routledge Handbook of Urbanization in Southeast Asia
Building Knowledge, Negotiating Expertise: Participatory Water Supply Advocacy and Service in Globalizing Jakarta
Urban water supply is a domain of expertise for which “best practices” have been dominated by states and financial institutions that are directly involved in infrastructure building. This leads to the implementation of decontextualized ideas and a transfer of knowledge from one place to another. Current urban water supply challenges and the social and cultural values of water are the background of this article to examine the role of participatory…
The politics of learning from a small city: Solo as translocal model and political launch pad
Joko Widodo (‘Jokowi’), mayor of the small Indonesian city of Solo (also officially known as Surakarta) between 2005 and 2012, was subsequently elected as governor of Jakarta and then as president of the Republic of Indonesia. This paper examines aspects of Jokowi’s political journey that speak to urban/regional studies debates on the politics of inter-municipal learning. It shows how the emergence of Solo as a ‘best-practice city’ in translocal …
Towards high resolution and cost-effective terrain mapping for urban hydrodynamic modelling in densely settled river-corridors
Mapping an alternative community river: The case of the Ciliwung
Benedict Anderson: A Reflection by an Indonesian Urbanist
In this article, I reflect on Benedict Anderson's work on Indonesian urbanism. There are at least three concepts from Anderson's work, particularly Imagined Communities, which deserve further attention in Indonesia's urban studies, namely: 1) political cultures; 2) territorial boundaries; and 3) the urban scale of imagined communities. Besides the conceptual dimensions, the perspectives of Anderson's work that featured ethical stance and strong c…
Water, Water Everywhere: Toward Participatory Solutions to Chronic Urban Flooding in Jakarta
Jakarta has entered an era of chronic flooding that is annually affecting tens of thousands of people, most of whom are crowded into low-income neighbourhoods in flood-prone areas of the city. As the greater Jakarta mega-urban region—Jabodetabck—approaches the 30 million population mark and the sources of flooding become ever more complex through combinations of global climate change and human transformations of the urban landscape, government re…
Observed changes in the water flow at Chiang Saen in the lower Mekong: Impacts of Chinese dams
Introduction to the Special Issue: Insurgencies, social media and the public city in Asia
The increasing role of cyberspace in recent urban insurgencies calls for urban scholars to rethink notions of spatialities, public space and the public sphere. However, social movements in cyberspace cannot be the ends of insurgent actions. Hopes for reclaiming public space extend beyond demonstrations and mobilisations to include rebuilding a public city with long-term social impacts. Three themes that emerged in the midst of new media prolifera…
Reform, resistance and empowerment: Constructing the public city from the grassroots in Jakarta, Indonesia
10.3828/idpr.2014.3
The Cosmopolitan Grassroots City as Megaphone: Reconstructing Public Spaces through Urban Activism in Jakarta
Discussions on social movements in Asian cities are inseparable from the abundance of public rallies in the region. In this article, I look at the case of Thamrin-Sudirman, the main thoroughfare in Jakarta, Indonesia, to uncover how physical urban spaces constituting part of the city as living systems broaden the reach of social movements' agendas. The study involved continuous observation at rallies, interviews with social movement leaders and p…
Harold Crouch, Political Reform in Indonesia after Soeharto
Contesting alun-alun: Power relations, identities and the production of urban space in Bandung, Indonesia
The city is a site where the meaning of buildings, monuments, open spaces and behaviour interweave, and where ideologies and power relations between three agents (the state, civil society and the market) are inscribed in the urban iconography and everyday life, forming interlacing triangles of relationships. This article studies the networks of actors involved in the transformation of the Masjid Raya (Grand Mosque) and alun-alun (the traditional …
Water, Water Everywhere: Toward Participatory Solutions to Chronic Urban Flooding in Jakarta
Jakarta has entered an era of chronic flooding that is annually affecting tens of thousands of people, most of whom are crowded into low-income neighbourhoods in flood-prone areas of the city. As the greater Jakarta mega-urban region—Jabodetabck—approaches the 30 million population mark and the sources of flooding become ever more complex through combinations of global climate change and human transformations of the urban landscape, government re…
The politics of learning from a small city: Solo as translocal model and political launch pad
Joko Widodo (‘Jokowi’), mayor of the small Indonesian city of Solo (also officially known as Surakarta) between 2005 and 2012, was subsequently elected as governor of Jakarta and then as president of the Republic of Indonesia. This paper examines aspects of Jokowi’s political journey that speak to urban/regional studies debates on the politics of inter-municipal learning. It shows how the emergence of Solo as a ‘best-practice city’ in translocal …
Forced evictions, spatial (un)certainties and the making of exemplary centres in Indonesia
This article considers the relationship between forced evictions and the ‘exemplary centre’ through an examination of three urban waterfront sites in Indonesia in comparative perspective. How is the notion of the ‘exemplary centre’ related to forced evictions and the aspirations of marginalised populations in contemporary cities of Indonesia? What are the chances of asserting alternative ideologies when a capital‐centric and modernist vision of t…
The Cosmopolitan Grassroots City as Megaphone: Reconstructing Public Spaces through Urban Activism in Jakarta
Discussions on social movements in Asian cities are inseparable from the abundance of public rallies in the region. In this article, I look at the case of Thamrin-Sudirman, the main thoroughfare in Jakarta, Indonesia, to uncover how physical urban spaces constituting part of the city as living systems broaden the reach of social movements' agendas. The study involved continuous observation at rallies, interviews with social movement leaders and p…
Reform, resistance and empowerment: Constructing the public city from the grassroots in Jakarta, Indonesia
10.3828/idpr.2014.3
Introduction to the Special Issue: Insurgencies, social media and the public city in Asia
The increasing role of cyberspace in recent urban insurgencies calls for urban scholars to rethink notions of spatialities, public space and the public sphere. However, social movements in cyberspace cannot be the ends of insurgent actions. Hopes for reclaiming public space extend beyond demonstrations and mobilisations to include rebuilding a public city with long-term social impacts. Three themes that emerged in the midst of new media prolifera…
City building knowledge from neighbourhoods in Asia Pacific
Neighbourhoods are places of social encounters on a daily basis, but they are getting insufficient attention from policy makers and urban studies in conceptualising the city. While the city is often the unit of analysis and boundaries of data collection, social constructions of the city are mostly from neighbourhoods. By shifting the analysis to the neighbourhood scale, we are moving scholarship and research on two fronts. First, we need to think…
Benedict Anderson: A Reflection by an Indonesian Urbanist
In this article, I reflect on Benedict Anderson's work on Indonesian urbanism. There are at least three concepts from Anderson's work, particularly Imagined Communities, which deserve further attention in Indonesia's urban studies, namely: 1) political cultures; 2) territorial boundaries; and 3) the urban scale of imagined communities. Besides the conceptual dimensions, the perspectives of Anderson's work that featured ethical stance and strong c…
Contesting alun-alun: Power relations, identities and the production of urban space in Bandung, Indonesia
The city is a site where the meaning of buildings, monuments, open spaces and behaviour interweave, and where ideologies and power relations between three agents (the state, civil society and the market) are inscribed in the urban iconography and everyday life, forming interlacing triangles of relationships. This article studies the networks of actors involved in the transformation of the Masjid Raya (Grand Mosque) and alun-alun (the traditional …
Harold Crouch, Political Reform in Indonesia after Soeharto
The Cosmopolitan Grassroots City as Megaphone: Reconstructing Public Spaces through Urban Activism in Jakarta
Discussions on social movements in Asian cities are inseparable from the abundance of public rallies in the region. In this article, I look at the case of Thamrin-Sudirman, the main thoroughfare in Jakarta, Indonesia, to uncover how physical urban spaces constituting part of the city as living systems broaden the reach of social movements' agendas. The study involved continuous observation at rallies, interviews with social movement leaders and p…
Observed changes in the water flow at Chiang Saen in the lower Mekong: Impacts of Chinese dams
Introduction to the Special Issue: Insurgencies, social media and the public city in Asia
The increasing role of cyberspace in recent urban insurgencies calls for urban scholars to rethink notions of spatialities, public space and the public sphere. However, social movements in cyberspace cannot be the ends of insurgent actions. Hopes for reclaiming public space extend beyond demonstrations and mobilisations to include rebuilding a public city with long-term social impacts. Three themes that emerged in the midst of new media prolifera…
Reform, resistance and empowerment: Constructing the public city from the grassroots in Jakarta, Indonesia
10.3828/idpr.2014.3
Water, Water Everywhere: Toward Participatory Solutions to Chronic Urban Flooding in Jakarta
Jakarta has entered an era of chronic flooding that is annually affecting tens of thousands of people, most of whom are crowded into low-income neighbourhoods in flood-prone areas of the city. As the greater Jakarta mega-urban region—Jabodetabck—approaches the 30 million population mark and the sources of flooding become ever more complex through combinations of global climate change and human transformations of the urban landscape, government re…
Towards high resolution and cost-effective terrain mapping for urban hydrodynamic modelling in densely settled river-corridors
Mapping an alternative community river: The case of the Ciliwung
Benedict Anderson: A Reflection by an Indonesian Urbanist
In this article, I reflect on Benedict Anderson's work on Indonesian urbanism. There are at least three concepts from Anderson's work, particularly Imagined Communities, which deserve further attention in Indonesia's urban studies, namely: 1) political cultures; 2) territorial boundaries; and 3) the urban scale of imagined communities. Besides the conceptual dimensions, the perspectives of Anderson's work that featured ethical stance and strong c…
Building Knowledge, Negotiating Expertise: Participatory Water Supply Advocacy and Service in Globalizing Jakarta
Urban water supply is a domain of expertise for which “best practices” have been dominated by states and financial institutions that are directly involved in infrastructure building. This leads to the implementation of decontextualized ideas and a transfer of knowledge from one place to another. Current urban water supply challenges and the social and cultural values of water are the background of this article to examine the role of participatory…
The politics of learning from a small city: Solo as translocal model and political launch pad
Joko Widodo (‘Jokowi’), mayor of the small Indonesian city of Solo (also officially known as Surakarta) between 2005 and 2012, was subsequently elected as governor of Jakarta and then as president of the Republic of Indonesia. This paper examines aspects of Jokowi’s political journey that speak to urban/regional studies debates on the politics of inter-municipal learning. It shows how the emergence of Solo as a ‘best-practice city’ in translocal …
Cities in Asia by and for the People
Cities in Asia
Routledge Handbook of Urbanization in Southeast Asia
Forced evictions, spatial (un)certainties and the making of exemplary centres in Indonesia
This article considers the relationship between forced evictions and the ‘exemplary centre’ through an examination of three urban waterfront sites in Indonesia in comparative perspective. How is the notion of the ‘exemplary centre’ related to forced evictions and the aspirations of marginalised populations in contemporary cities of Indonesia? What are the chances of asserting alternative ideologies when a capital‐centric and modernist vision of t…
River Cities in Asia: Waterways in Urban Development and History
Urban Development in Southeast Asia
Urbanization as a process is rife with inequality, in Southeast Asia as anywhere else, but resistance and contestation persist on the ground. In this element, the author sets out to achieve three goals: 1) to examine the political nature of urban development; 2) to scrutinize the implications of power inequality in urban development discussions; and 3) to highlight topical and methodological contributions to urban studies from Southeast Asia. The…
City building knowledge from neighbourhoods in Asia Pacific
Neighbourhoods are places of social encounters on a daily basis, but they are getting insufficient attention from policy makers and urban studies in conceptualising the city. While the city is often the unit of analysis and boundaries of data collection, social constructions of the city are mostly from neighbourhoods. By shifting the analysis to the neighbourhood scale, we are moving scholarship and research on two fronts. First, we need to think…
The kampung , the city and the nation: Bhinneka Tunggal Ika in the everyday urban life of Kampung Peneleh, Surabaya, Indonesia
Interpreted as ‘unity in diversity’, Indonesia's national politicians appropriated the slogan Bhinneka Tunggal Ika from a fourteenth century poem to legitimise one nation‐state for the diverse archipelago. As Indonesia becomes a rapidly urbanising country, the concepts of ‘unity’ and ‘diversity’ intertwine with changing landscapes and societies. With the growth of cities as centres of population and economic activities, the intensity of developme…
City and the Temptation to Overlook: Critical Reflections from Indonesia on Urban Development and Methods of Counter-overlooking in the Field
The concept of ‘overlooked cities’ calls for a research agenda to critically examine the actors and processes involved in power relations, analyse the production of knowledge on cities and increase collaboration with grassroots organisations in studying cities, with the intention to reshape urban policies and planning practices. This research agenda warrants further inquiry into how the concept can help when researchers face urban conditions in t…
Resilience As Heritage in Asia
Political science (17 works) · Geography (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Asian Studies and History (8 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (8 works) · Law (5 works) · Economic geography (4 works)