YCAR director Abidin Kusno’s (Environmental Studies) research on flooding in Jakarta, Indonesia is the focus of our latest Asia Research Brief. Kusno’s SSHRC-funded research builds on the insights of current scholarship from critical geography and anthropology of infrastructure to make sense of a social formation (such as Jakarta) in which flooding has led to both disaster and opportunities as well as modes of governing society.
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