We're thrilled to share that the research paper, "Afterlives of reclamation: coastal privatization, distanced dispossession, and more-than-human calcifications in Jakarta Bay" by BCDSS Postdoctoral Researcher Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa together with Muhammed Soufi Cahya Gemilang, As-Syahidah Al-Haq, Muthmainnah Rama and Annisa Ananda Sari, has just been published in the journal Maritime Studies.
The paper explores how coastal reclamation in North Jakarta generates a form of "distanced dispossession." In particular, it asks how elite geoengineering and informal settlement (kampong) landmaking practices become entangled through unequal dependencies on property and privatized enclosures, while foregrounding their more-than-human encounters during land reclamation.
Read the full article via open access here.