Standing by the promise

Acts of anticipation in Rio and Jakarta

Bibliographic Data

ID4476341
AuthorsLaura Kemmer (0000-0003-4141-9169, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, corresponding author), Abdoumaliq Simone (0000-0002-1630-1997, The University of Sheffield, UK)
Year2021
Volume39
Issue4
Pages573-589
Publication date2021-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0263775820982997
OpenAlexW3118723216
LanguageEN
Citations received30
References cited32

Cities are promising machines always holding out prospects for better lives, always attempting to guarantee that things will not remain the same and that whatever changes do ensue are for the better. We propose a notion of "promise" not as simply another descriptor in a long line of adjectives about the city. Rather, we argue that the urban institutional landscape constantly generates new promises as way of anticipation, which in turn allows residents to write themselves into select urban operations. This article engages two central districts in Rio de Janeiro and Jakarta to explore how residents "stand by" the promise, not of passive waiting, but as maneuvers of either staying tuned to or as way of tactical detachment from the multiple trajectories which have been conjured up in the here and now. We understand these maneuvers as acts of "minor" future making that rely upon practices and materials that may seem of little use, but which enable a process of incremental small adjustments and collective subversion of urban trajectories of the transitory

Aesthetics · Anticipation (artificial intelligence · Art · Business · Political science · Process (computing · Sociology · Subversion · Asian Studies and History · Computer Science · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Artificial Intelligence

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