Anthropology Seminar presented by Robbie Peters: The on-demand motorbike-taxi economy in Indonesia: a guerrilla infrastructure
This paper explores what David Harvey considers that moment of devaluation in the life cycle of heavy infrastructure when it cannot move things fast enough, posing a barrier to capital. Using the case of on-demand motorbike-taxis, I explore how people provide public transport where the state cannot. Municipal government revenues in Indonesia are far too …