This book sheds light on the nature of community within urban off-street neighborhoods (kampung) in Java, examining the concept of community in the light of state programs of administration and control, religious reform movements, and local residents' responses to these and to conditions during both the New Order and Reformasi period after 1998
Rousing manifesto on the city and the commons from the acclaimed theorist Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking. They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary politics, where deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Do the financiers and developers control access to urban resources or do the people? Who dictat…
Sosiologi perkotaan‚ ilmu ketatakotaan‚ boleh dibilang sudah lama berkembang di Indonesia, namun tidak banyak buku yang coba merumuskan masalah perkotaan secara mendalam. Buku ini berargumen bahwa kota bukan sekadar tata-kota, melainkan kebudayaan. Mempelajari tata-kota semestinya mencakup kajian sosio-historis suatu bangsa. Dalam buku ini Jo Santoso mengangkat kota Surabaya sebagai bahan t…
Kumpulan esai Seno Gumira Ajidarma yang sebelumnya pernah diterbitkan dalam "Affair" (2004) dan "Kentut Kosmopolitan" (2008), ditambah beberapa tulisan di Djakarta! free-mag (hingga tahun 2013) yang belum pernah diterbitkan sebelumnya.