Politicised Space and Contentious Youth in Urban Environmentalism in Indonesia
Abstract: The paper concerns a
youth environmental movement in Bandung to save the urban forest Babakan
Silawangi. It is proposed that space for protest plays a significant role in
social movements such as environmentalism. Public assembly allows activists to
voice their political objections and make their discontent known to the
citizenry. Yet political space is different to physical place. According to
Henri Lefebvre, political space is an assemblage of co-creation by individuals
who occupy the space and demonstrate their subjective meanings for it in
expression and lived experience. Since the subjective/collective meanings
perceived and experienced by the activists are powerfully enacted, the space itself
may shape their identity and this study explores those meanings, which are
relational, contextual, and spatial.
Penulis: Meredian Alam
Kode Jurnal: jpsosiologidd160336
