TY - JOUR

T1 - The precarity of peri-urban resistance

T2 - A resistance to the forced eviction of Pasar VI Village and the development of Kualanamu International Airport, North Sumatera

AU - Putri, Prathiwi Widyatmi

AU - Kaputra, Iswan

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - In 1997, Kualanamu was chosen as the site of a new airport in North Sumatra. The central government's unilateral decision created new agrarian conflict and complicated the agrarian issues that had plagued the region since the colonial era. The accumulated conflicts and structural issues left local residents in a precarious state as they became integrated into peri-urban society. This article highlights the complexity of the conflict, the agency–institutional–structural relations that underpin it, and peri-urban resistance within the context of urbanisation and its marginalisation of rural communities.

AB - In 1997, Kualanamu was chosen as the site of a new airport in North Sumatra. The central government's unilateral decision created new agrarian conflict and complicated the agrarian issues that had plagued the region since the colonial era. The accumulated conflicts and structural issues left local residents in a precarious state as they became integrated into peri-urban society. This article highlights the complexity of the conflict, the agency–institutional–structural relations that underpin it, and peri-urban resistance within the context of urbanisation and its marginalisation of rural communities.

M3 - Journal article

VL - 8

SP - 49

EP - 67

JO - PCD Journal of Power, Conflict and Democracy

JF - PCD Journal of Power, Conflict and Democracy

SN - 2085-0433

IS - 1

ER -