Tadié Jérôme, Permanadeli R. (2015). Night and the city : clubs, brothels and politics in Jakarta. In :
Van Aalst I. (ed.), Van Liempt I.C. (ed.), Schwanen T. (ed.). Geographies of the urban night. Urban Studies, 52 (3), p. 471-485. ISSN 0042-0980.
Titre du document
Night and the city : clubs, brothels and politics in Jakarta
Van Aalst I. (ed.), Van Liempt I.C. (ed.), Schwanen T. (ed.) Geographies of the urban night
Source
Urban Studies, 2015,
52 (3), p. 471-485 ISSN 0042-0980
This article analyses the significance of Jakarta’s night venues, defined in a narrow way (bars, clubs and prostitution complexes). They represent not only forms of modernisation and their acceptance in a city from the developing world, but they show how usual means of controlling the night have different understandings and produce different types of arrangements, regarding where one is located. We show how informal agreements are central to ordering the night and to governance processes, and how they produce different types of territories within an Indonesian context. The first part draws a topography of the night-time economy in Jakarta, showing how the evolution of the venues reflects both the growth of the metropolis and Indonesia’s different political regimes. Then the paper analyses the inner (dis)organisation of the venues and neighbourhoods in which they are concentrated, before assessing the meaning of the policies aimed at creating order in the city at night, showing how appearances of order take precedence over the effective planning of the metropolis.
Plan de classement
Urbanisation, sociétés urbaines [102URBHA1]
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Comportements et pratiques sociales [106GESOC2]
