Reconstructing The Southeast Asian City in an Era of Volatile Globalization

McGee,

doi:10.1163/15685310260188718

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“…In addition, too-rapid urbanisation in many developing nations has gone hand in hand with the growth of what are called 'periurban' areas that combine urban and rural characteristics and present new challenges to water (and other) services provision (Harris et al 2013 ;McGee 2002 ;Tacoli 2006 ). Despite concerted international efforts in recent decades, there are still at least a BILLION people in the developing world without adequate access to basic water services.…”

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Urban Water Governance as a Function of the ‘Urban Hydrosocial Transition’

Staddon

Sarkozi

Langberg³

2016

Freshwater Governance for the 21st Century

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Urban governance is as much about infrastructure as it is about people and processes. In particular, the history of urban governance is closely intertwined with the history of urban water services. Historically, as urban areas became larger and more densely inhabited, the collective need for better water services (drinking water, sanitation and fl ood protection in particular) became overwhelming. Cities simply could not grow beyond a certain relatively modest size without the simultaneous articulation of an integrated water services infrastructure to replace the piecemeal local arrangements previously in place. This necessarily implied new and more complex governance arrangements, in this case the institutionalisation of water services management in functional departmental structures, linked to political decision-making, fi nance, quality assurance and related functions. Whilst other papers have presented case studies of the urban hydrosocial transition (UHT) in terms of the physical extension of water services (e.g. water supply, sanitation and surface water management), this chapter focuses specifi cally on urban governance of water. We argue that the progressive breakdown of Fordist neo-corporatism in water services has opened up the fi eld to a proliferation of 'glocal' (to use Swyngedouw's useful neologism) governance arrangements. Whilst integrated water resource management (IWRM) principles imply a supra-urban scale of governance, the fact that urbanisation brings with it local concentration of water-related impacts means that there is an ineluctable local and urban dimension to water governance. It is therefore not surprising that cities around the world are asserting themselves as central players in water governance. Brief case studies from around the world are presented by way of illustration.

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Urban Water Governance as a Function of the ‘Urban Hydrosocial Transition’

Staddon

Sarkozi

Langberg³

2016

Freshwater Governance for the 21st Century

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The Management of Urbanization, Development, and Environmental Change in the Megacities of Asia in the Twenty-First Century

McGee

Mori

2021

Global Environmental Studies

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The persistence of precarity: youth livelihood struggles and aspirations in the context of truncated agrarian change, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Griffin,

Sirimorok,

Dressler

et al. 2023

Agric Hum Values

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Processes of rapid and truncated agrarian change—driven through expanding urbanisation, infrastructure development, extractive industries, and commodity crops—are shaping the livelihood opportunities and aspirations of Indonesia’s rural youth. This study describes the everyday experiences of youth as they navigate the changing character of agriculture, aquaculture, and fishing livelihoods across gender, class, and generation. Drawing on qualitative field research conducted in the Maros District of South Sulawesi, we examine young people’s experiences of agrarian change in a landscape of entangled rural, coastal and increasingly urbanised spaces. We find that young people aspire to secure, modern, and salary-based work, while continuing to seek and sustain intergenerational farming or aquaculture-based livelihoods. Youth take advantage of increased connectivity to diversify their incomes, yet their dependence on mobility also introduces new forms of gendered and class based precarity such as insecure working arrangements, disruption to education and violence (especially for young unskilled women and youth from financially insecure households). Our study highlights the persistent conditions of precarity that many young people encounter in both rural and urban settings, while challenging assumptions that youth are uninterested in rural futures.

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Reconstructing The Southeast Asian City in an Era of Volatile Globalization

Cited by 16 publications

References 16 publications

Urban Water Governance as a Function of the ‘Urban Hydrosocial Transition’

Urban Water Governance as a Function of the ‘Urban Hydrosocial Transition’

The Management of Urbanization, Development, and Environmental Change in the Megacities of Asia in the Twenty-First Century

The persistence of precarity: youth livelihood struggles and aspirations in the context of truncated agrarian change, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

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