• Sociology
• Published 2013
• DOI:10.1177/0263276413501872

Cities of Uncertainty: Jakarta, the Urban Majority, and Inventive Political Technologies:

@inproceedings{Simone2013CitiesOU,
  title={Cities of Uncertainty: Jakarta, the Urban Majority, and Inventive Political Technologies:},
  author={Abdoumaliq Simone},
  year={2013}
}

• Abdoumaliq Simone

When people inhabit a city, they situate themselves and are situated through the intersections of infrastructure and technical systems, and the particular domains and modalities of occupation – settlement and work – that are configured by them. At the same time, people are also inhabited by the city, as a kind of possession, endowment, and series of conundrums. People figure themselves out through figuring arrangements of materials, of designing what is available to them in formats and… CONTINUE READING

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