{"product_id":"9781487508197-shadow-play","title":"Shadow Play","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInformation Politics in Urban Indonesia\u003cbr\u003eShadow Play examines how members of the urban underclass in Indonesia seek to negotiate their rights to urban space in a country undergoing significant social, political, and economic change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on government-organized relocations of street vendors in Indonesia,\u003ci\u003e Shadow Play \u003c\/i\u003ecarefully exposes the reasons why conflicts over urban planning are fought through information politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnthropologist Sheri Lynn Gibbings shows that information politics are the principal avenues through which the municipal government of Yogyakarta city seeks to implement its urban projects. Information politics are also the primary means through which street vendors, activists, and NGOs can challenge these plans. Through extensive interviews and lengthy participant observation in Yogyakarta, Gibbings shows that both state and non-state actors engage in transparency, rumours, conspiracies, and surveillance practices.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGibbings reveals that these entangled information practices create suspicion and fear, form new solidarities, and dissolve relationships. \u003ci\u003eShadow Play\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling study explaining how we cannot understand urban projects in post-Suharto Indonesia and the resistance to them without first understanding the complexities embedded in the information practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53567373771126,"sku":"9781487508197","price":54.53,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_38183661_00113906-8d9f-4763-a688-43c40b263db6.jpg?v=1763787267","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781487508197-shadow-play","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}