Department of Geography 2014 Charles H.V. Ebert Lecture.
Professors Helga Leitner & Eric Sheppard, UCLA
The end of Indonesia’s New Order regime, in the shadow of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, brought neoliberalization to Jakarta. This current great transformation has triggered a financialization of urban real estate, pressure to privatize land tenure and “upgrade” informal settlements, and a new middle class aspiring to western lifestyles and speculating in land. The lecture will examine the implications of these changes for socio-spatial justice, urban sustainability, and contestations of global norms.