Traditions and Transformations of Habitation in Indonesia

This book raises the issue of the practice of patrimonial power with a focus on habitations, particularly in the urban areas of Indonesia. An assemblage of interdisciplinary studies within the framework of environmental humanities, covering the arts, architecture, urban studies, geography, cultural anthropology, and sociology, this multifaceted framework divulges the interactive connectivity between Indonesia’s patrimonial culture and the socio-culturally constructed system of habitation. The interdisciplinary study of the pertinent practices of patrimonial power that have been represented and been manifested by various political and traditional regimes in terms of the built environment and habitation in Indonesia contributes to a new understanding of Indonesian urban spatial development, from the pre-colonial era to the present. The book poses that in order to understand the politics of Indonesia, one must understand the culture and tradition of the political leadership of the country. The author presents such an understanding in exploring and unpacking the relationship between people and place that constructs, develops, sustains, and conserves Indonesian culture and traditions of habitation. This book is of interest to graduate scholars and researchers in Asian Studies in numerous disciplines, including urban studies, urban planning and design, political science, architecture, anthropology of space, public administration, and political philosophy.

• Power, Culture, and Urbanism
• Southeast Asian Studies
• Transformations of Habitation in Indonesia
• Urbanism and Habitation in Indonesia
• Traditions Habitation in Indonesia
• Architecture and Urbanism in Indonesia
• Patrimonial Culture

• Independent Scholar, Toronto, Canada

  Bagoes Wiryomartono

Dr. Bagoes Wiryomartono is an independent scholar in Toronto, Canada. He earned his doctorate in architecture and urbanism from the Aachen University of Technology in 1990. He was a postdoctoral fellow for architecture at the East‐West Centre in Honolulu, Hawaii, and a Fulbright Scholar at the Smithsonian Institution in the US. His area of specialisation is in the history, theory, and design of urbanisms of various cultures and traditions in Southeast Asia and North America. He was a Senior Lecturer at the Bandung Institute of Technology (1981–3, 1993–2002), and a visiting research associate at the Asian Institute at the University of Toronto Canada (2003–5). He was then an Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture in the Faculty of the Built Environment at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (2010 –2013). His most recent books include Urbanism, Livability and Sustainability (Palgrave, forthcoming 2019), Javanese Culture and the Meanings of Locality, Studies on the Arts, Urbanism, Polity, and Society (Rowman & Littlefield 2016), and Perspectives on Traditional Settlements and Communities: Home, Form and Culture in Indonesia (Springer 2014). He has published his research in various Scopus journals on the history and theory of architecture, urbanism, and culture in Southeast Asia, as well as in philosophical studies within the phenomenological movement.

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