After the New Order: Space, Politics, and Jakarta

Other Works in the Series, About the Author, Production Notes, Back Cover

INSTITUTE OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES | WRITING PAST COLONIALISM Selves in Question: Interviews on Southern African Auto/biography Edited by Judith Lütge Coullie, Stephan Meyer, Thengani Ngwenya, and Thomas Olver Boundary Writing: An Exploration of Race, Culture, and Gender Binaries in Contemporary Australia Edited by Lynette Russell Postcolonizing the International: Working to Change the Way We Are Edited by Phillip Darby Dark Writing: Geography, Performance, Design Paul Carter Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes: A Penal History of Singapore’s Plural Society Anoma Pieris Imperial Archipelago: Representation and Rule in the Insular Territories under U.S. Dominion after 1898 Lanny Thompson Mediating across Difference: Oceanic and Asian Approaches to Conflict Resolution Edited by Morgan Brigg and Roland Bleiker Out of Bounds: Anglo-Indian Literature and the Geography of Displacement Alan Johnson Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Development: Other Paths for Papua New Guinea Paul James, Yaso Nadarajah, Karen Haive, and Victoria Stead After the New Order: Space, Politics, and Jakarta Abidin Kusno ABOUT THE AUTHOR Abidin Kusno, who received his doctorate in history and theory of architecture and urbanism from the State University of New York, Binghamton, is an architectural historian with interests in sociology, anthropology, visual cultures, history, and politics. Among his publications are Appearances of Memory: Mnemonic Practices of Architecture and Urban Form in Indonesia (2010) and Behind the Postcolonial: Architecture , Urban Space and Political Cultures in Indonesia (2000), as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. He is currently associate professor and Canada research chair in Asian urbanism and culture at the Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia. Production Notes for Kusno / After the New Order Cover design by Julie Matsuo-Chun Composition by Westchester Publishing Services with display type in Akzidenz Grotesk and text in Scala Pro and Scala Sans Pro Printing and binding by Sheridan Books Inc. Printed on 60lb. House White, 444 ppi. Jacket art: Halted construction of one of the 1,000 towers at Kemanggisan Residence in West Jakarta. (Photo courtesy of Suryono Herlambang) Jacket design: Leslie Fitch University of Hawai‘i Press Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822-1888 southeast asian studies / urban studies Also in Writing Past Colonialism Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Development OTHER PATHS FOR PAPUA NEW GUINEA Paul James, Yaso Nadarajah, Karen Haive, and Victoria Stead 2012, 486 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8248-3588-0; paper ISBN: 978-0-8248-3640-5 “Sustainable Communities is an excellent work; remarkable. It manages to combine a sense of the complexity of its subject while remaining highly readable. I found it deeply probing, sustaining a sense of complexity across a multitude of terrains. Importantly, the book displays a belief in the possibilities of the village and displaced communities while retaining a sense of relevant problems. There were some surprises for me. I found myself asking how is it possible, after thirty-five years of crisis after crisis, for a group of serious, positive, imaginative researchers to find that people in Papua New Guinea still live in sustainable community-based relations with one another. This is a reason for humility , and a basis for serious reflection on the crises and hopes of the past and present.” —Dr. Nonie Sharo, author of Stars of Tagai: The Torres Strait Islanders ...