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Wednesday, November 16
Lecture
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Future Islands: Speculation and the Making of the Middle Class Modern in Jakarta
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Matt Wade
Ph.D. candidate, City & Regional Planning,
UC Berkeley
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Real estate mega-development in Jakarta since the 1980s has enabled new geopolitical imaginaries for the city and the nation, but has also transformed the Jakarta metropolitan region into an archipelago of elite enclaves. In this period, a new middle class emerged as distinct from the previous middle class of civil servants, and with it, a reordering of political culture and the built environment, centered especially around construction of spaces and spectacles of a modern middle class. Three critical sites emerged through this process, each a type of privately developed island: the middle class landed housing in suburban new towns, then the large, mixed-use campuses in the inner city, and finally, in the future, island estates along the north shore of Jakarta. More than a speculative land grab on the part of real estate developers, this talk will show how the city has been remade through various modes of speculation by the family, the developer, and planning agencies, each seeking to manage the prospects and contingencies of the future.
Matt Wade is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley. He studies urban development, modernization, and government rationalities in Southeast Asia. His current research focuses on contemporary planning and development agencies in Jakarta and the production of space in the era of democratization.
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180 Doe Library
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
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