L Ley
Biographic Data
| ID | 5648 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Ley |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Ley |
| SIGNATURE | LEY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heidelberg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8423-0011 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
‘Impoldering Indonesia’
This article interrogates the social life and afterlife of a Dutch flood control project, or polder, in Semarang, Indonesia. While arguing that there is no such thing as a typical Dutch polder, the article shows how Dutch attempts to claim universal hydraulic knowledge allow partners of a bilateral development project to discuss the sociotechnical contours of an anti-flooding project and legitimise urgent infrastructural intervention. Only upon f…
Reframing Ports with Ecological Concrete
Lukas Ley demonstrates how the use of “ecological concrete” taps the liveliness of shore ecologies in ways that contribute to recreating nearshore habitats and alternative ecological futures
The ‘ kampung formula’
Describing the artistic and curatorial work of the Indonesian art collective Hysteria over the last 15 years, this paper considers public art as a practice of devising relations with various urban sites and actors. I focus on Hysteria’s core strategy of organising art festivals and exhibitions in kampungs – working-class urban neighbourhoods – with the aim of creating novel spaces for artistic expression, showing that the kampung serves both as i…
New climate change activism
New climate change activism: before and after the Covid-19 pandemic The global climatic and ecological crisis becomes more apparent with every passing year. Shocking images of the burning Congo Basin, of bushfires devastating aboriginal land in Australia, of thawing permafrost in Siberia and mass coral bleaching have gone viral. Countless studies from independent scientists have linked these events to climate change and revealed their serious eff…
Building on Borrowed Time
A Future History of Water. AndreaBallestero, Durham
Ethnographic conversations with Wittfogel’s ghost
This theme issue re-engages the ghost of Wittfogel in ethnographically grounded conversations around the imbrication of water, power, and infrastructure. It examines social and political relations in ways that take their tensions and correspondences with water seriously, as Wittfogel did half a century ago, but in a less monolithic and totalizing manner. Instead, the contributions pay attention to the situated, partial, multiple, and open-ended e…
Goldstein, Daniel M
Anthropos , Seite 304 - 306
On the margins of the hydrosocial
J acobs, J ane
The American‐Canadian author and activist Jane Jacobs was a strong critic of modernist urban planning and renewal. Her analyses of downtown life revealed the importance of urban complexity and density. While not holding an academic degree, Jacobs influenced how urban life is studied and conceptualized across various disciplines, such as geography and anthropology. Her seminal work The Death and Life of Great American Cities showed how modernist p…
Building on Borrowed Time
On the margins of the hydrosocial
The ‘ kampung formula’
Describing the artistic and curatorial work of the Indonesian art collective Hysteria over the last 15 years, this paper considers public art as a practice of devising relations with various urban sites and actors. I focus on Hysteria’s core strategy of organising art festivals and exhibitions in kampungs – working-class urban neighbourhoods – with the aim of creating novel spaces for artistic expression, showing that the kampung serves both as i…
J acobs, J ane
The American‐Canadian author and activist Jane Jacobs was a strong critic of modernist urban planning and renewal. Her analyses of downtown life revealed the importance of urban complexity and density. While not holding an academic degree, Jacobs influenced how urban life is studied and conceptualized across various disciplines, such as geography and anthropology. Her seminal work The Death and Life of Great American Cities showed how modernist p…
Goldstein, Daniel M
Anthropos , Seite 304 - 306
On the margins of the hydrosocial
Ethnographic conversations with Wittfogel’s ghost
This theme issue re-engages the ghost of Wittfogel in ethnographically grounded conversations around the imbrication of water, power, and infrastructure. It examines social and political relations in ways that take their tensions and correspondences with water seriously, as Wittfogel did half a century ago, but in a less monolithic and totalizing manner. Instead, the contributions pay attention to the situated, partial, multiple, and open-ended e…
A Future History of Water. AndreaBallestero, Durham
New climate change activism
New climate change activism: before and after the Covid-19 pandemic The global climatic and ecological crisis becomes more apparent with every passing year. Shocking images of the burning Congo Basin, of bushfires devastating aboriginal land in Australia, of thawing permafrost in Siberia and mass coral bleaching have gone viral. Countless studies from independent scientists have linked these events to climate change and revealed their serious eff…
Building on Borrowed Time
The ‘ kampung formula’
Describing the artistic and curatorial work of the Indonesian art collective Hysteria over the last 15 years, this paper considers public art as a practice of devising relations with various urban sites and actors. I focus on Hysteria’s core strategy of organising art festivals and exhibitions in kampungs – working-class urban neighbourhoods – with the aim of creating novel spaces for artistic expression, showing that the kampung serves both as i…
Reframing Ports with Ecological Concrete
Lukas Ley demonstrates how the use of “ecological concrete” taps the liveliness of shore ecologies in ways that contribute to recreating nearshore habitats and alternative ecological futures
‘Impoldering Indonesia’
This article interrogates the social life and afterlife of a Dutch flood control project, or polder, in Semarang, Indonesia. While arguing that there is no such thing as a typical Dutch polder, the article shows how Dutch attempts to claim universal hydraulic knowledge allow partners of a bilateral development project to discuss the sociotechnical contours of an anti-flooding project and legitimise urgent infrastructural intervention. Only upon f…
Sociology (5 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)