The Urban Poor and Their Ambivalent Exceptionalities
Some Notes from Jakarta
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2224536 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Abdoumaliq Simone (0000-0002-1630-1997, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | S11 |
| Pages | S15-S23 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/682283 |
| OpenAlex | W2174618838 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 14 |
Rather than being sedentary strata of urban existence, the urban poor move in and out of heterogeneous transformations, becoming a body of critical experimentation in ongoing calibrations of circulation and emplacement. They are sometimes the "wild cards" of urbanization itself, less excluded from rights and livelihood or a reserve surplus of wasted lives than vehicles for both conjoining and disrupting clearly delineated sectors, territories, and policies. Reviewing various dynamics of local economic practice, provisioning systems, and the built environment in Jakarta, in this article I explore the ambiguous presence of the poor in contemporary urban systems of the so-called global south
Agriculture · Ambivalence · Circulation (fluid dynamics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Livelihood · Provisioning · Sociology · Urbanization · Psychology · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Planning and Governance
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| Citations per year | 2.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |