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Abidin Kusno

Abidin Kusno

Abidin Kusno

Professor Undergraduate Program Director Credentials PhD Art History, Binghamton UniversityMA Art History, Binghamton UniversityBA Architecture, Petra University Research Keywords Indonesia; Architecture; Cultural Studies; History; Politics; Urban Studies. Contact Information 4700 Keele StreetToronto, ON M3J 1P3 416 736 2100 akusno15@yorku.ca Research Interests I joined York as a Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies in 2015. Before my arrival at York,

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Inundation and Environmental Politics in Southeast Asia

Inundation and Environmental Politics in Southeast Asia

Principal Investigator: Abidin Kusno. Funding: SSHRC. Term: 2016-2021. The research builds on the insights of current scholarship from critical geography and anthropology of infrastructure to make sense of a social formation (such as Jakarta) in which environmental degradation, informality and lack of planning have led to both disaster and opportunities as well as modes of

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The social life of flooding in Jakarta

The social life of flooding in Jakarta

The issues around flooding have increasingly received attention in a variety of fields, and Jakarta has been a primary case study for a lot of researchers including Abidin Kusno, professor and director at the York Centre for Asian Research. Existing research has significantly contributed to our understanding of the inadequate institutional, organizational and individual capacities for flood

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