CO-Water Voice. Turning Water Conflicts into Co-productions: Recent Episodes
Prathiwi Putri
Welcome to CO-Water Voice! We voice critical views and marginalized aspirations within the water development sector. CO-Water is a postdoctoral research program at the Department of International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance, University of Kassel. It is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. CO-Water looks at conflicts over water resources and water territories, and seeks to understand the conditions of possibility for turning conflicts into civil society co-production. We aim at conceptualizing a grassroots-led model of polycentric water governance in the postcolonial South. About Prathiwi Putri, the lead researcher, read here.
I spoke to Marwa about her process in the PhD journey. I always find her research trajectory interesting and especially because she is committed to social movement agenda and groups. In this podcast episode, we also spoke about theories that have inspired her. It is highly recommended for those just starting a research in water governance, and indeed for those wanting updates about Jakarta.
Marwa is a lecturer at the Department of International Relations, University of Gadjah Mada, Indonesia and a PhD candidate at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK. Her PhD Programme has received supports from Jardine Foundation.
Opening music:
Biru Beriak by Lair from Jatiwangi, West Java. The music is dedicated to fisherfolk communities.
Theme music:
Solidas by Marjinal. The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was meant to support the struggles of communities in Indonesia against land grabbing and environmental degradation caused by the mining industry. Specific dedication in that evening was for the farming community in Wadas, whose village was destroyed by stone mining. The mining supplies the material to build a new large dam that had been long planned by the national government to supply water and energy for the new international airport in Southern Java.
Season music:
Jakarta by Mardika (Revolt Music)
It is very timely to speak about accountability, a topic that Preeta Dhar has been engaging with in water governance. She is a PhD Candidate at SOAS University of London. Her dissertation project seeks to address system accountability that is beyond the technical needs in addressing corruption or mis-management. Her aim is to understand power dynamics beyond the visible stretch of water infrastructures. Towards the end of the conversation we mentioned about the People’s Water Forum, which unfortunately has been forcedly annulled by the Indonesian Government.
CO-Water Voice Theme Music:
Solidas by Marjinal. The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was meant to support the struggles of communities in Indonesia against land grabbing and environmental degradation caused by the mining industry. Specific dedication in that evening was for the farming community in Wadas, whose village was destroyed by stone mining.
Opening music:
Biru Beriak by Lair from Jatiwangi, West Java. The music is dedicated to fisherfolk communities.
Closing music and song:
Selamat Pagi by Sanggar Ciliwung Merdeka. The song was recorded by Prathiwi in Jakarta during their rehearsal on 18 March 2017. The children were still actively singing after their riverside workshop had been demolished in 2016, during a forced eviction. In 2016 alone, there were 193 cases of forced evictions with direct victims of 5.726 households and 5.379 informal business units in the kampungs of Jakarta, or the so-called slums, in the name of the Ciliwung river normalization program.
Dona Geagea is a PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam within the research program NEWAVE – Next Water Governance, an EU funded Marie-Curie Innovative Training Network. Her research investigates emerging re-commoning water governance practices as a response to austerity crises in Terrassa and Naples. Previously, Dona’s Master research focused on the top-down impact of neoliberal policies at the global platform in eroding communal water management traditions in rural communities in Kenya. In the course of her PhD research, she has published in Urban Studies and International Journal of the Commons.
Opening music:
Biru Beriak by Lair from Jatiwangi, West Java. The music is dedicated to fisherfolk communities.
Theme music:
Solidas by Marjinal. The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was meant to support the struggles of communities in Indonesia against land grabbing and environmental degradation caused by the mining industry. Specific dedication in that evening was for the farming community in Wadas, whose village was destroyed by stone mining. The mining supplies the material to build a new large dam that had been long planned by the national government to supply water and energy for the new international airport in Southern Java.
An introduction to Season 5. The point is to explain it, stupid!
This is not a stupid season, but smart, really! It is a call for a critical realist explanation.
Theme music:
Solidas by Marjinal. The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was meant to support the struggles of communities in Indonesia against land grabbing and environmental degradation caused by the mining industry. Specific dedication in that evening was for the farming community in Wadas, whose village was destroyed by stone mining. The mining supplies the material to build a new large dam that had been long planned by the national government to supply water and energy for the new international airport in Southern Java.
I have been thinking about emergence of diverse struggling bodies, modalities of struggles, and organization of social movements/ institutionalisation of social movements. It is really great to have Mangala Subramaniam with us. She is a Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. She has been an important figure within diverse academic communities in the US and in India. Her most actual societal service in the academia is Senior Vice Provost of Faculty Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her research is in the broad areas of social inequality and social movements and she has published a number of outputs around water rights, including a book that discusses the history of World Water Forum and the emergence of People’s Water Forum. I think her trajectory of scholarship is valuable to enrich the current streams of anti-privatization literature.
Minute 0 An excerpt from the conversation: the ambivalence of ‘state and community’
Minute 2 An introduction to the season and about the speaker in this episode 4.6
Minute 4 The conversation starts on the shift within water literature, and about urban-rural interlinkages
Minute 9 the locus of community
Minute 24 State institutions, protests and the role of social movements
Minute 30 The roles beyond the national states, the World Water Forum and the People’s Water Forum
Minute 36 ‘The people’ in the People’s Water Forum
Minute 37.5 Scholars’ position in advocating just water governance
Minute 40 Issues to further discuss towards the People’s Water Forum
CO-Water Voice Theme Music:
Solidas by Marjinal. The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was meant to support the struggles of communities in Indonesia against land grabbing and environmental degradation caused by the mining industry. Specific dedication in that evening was for the farming community in Wadas, whose village was destroyed by stone mining.
Opening music:
Biru Beriak by Lair from Jatiwangi, West Java. The music is dedicated to fisherfolk communities.
Closing music and song:
Selamat Pagi by Sanggar Ciliwung Merdeka. The song was recorded by Prathiwi in Jakarta during their rehearsal on 18 March 2017. The children were still actively singing after their riverside workshop had been demolished in 2016, during a forced eviction. In 2016 alone, there were 193 cases of forced evictions with direct victims of 5.726 households and 5.379 informal business units in the kampungs of Jakarta, or the so-called slums, in the name of the Ciliwung river normalization program.
Andreas Harsono is a senior journalist and a human right activist. He has written several reports on the case of water privatization especially in Jakarta. He links the privatization issue with democracy and accountability in governance as well as the Indonesian historical trajectory in infrastructure development and public policy making. Around 20 years after his reports on the case of Jakarta were published, the issues he has raised are still highly relevant: the absence of transparency and real participation in public policy making. It is so valuable to have him in this episode as he has reported on many other relevant themes such as transportation and other urban infrastructures, mining, environmental issues, state-sponsored violence, and discrimination of minority ethnic- and religious groups. I believe we can make some critical reflections beyond water governance.
Music:
Solidas by Marjinal. The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was meant to support the struggles of communities in Indonesia against land grabbing and environmental degradation caused by the mining industry. Specific dedication in that evening was for the farming community in Wadas, whose village was destroyed by stone mining.
Biru Beriak by Lair from Jatiwangi, West Java. The music is dedicated to fisherfolk communities.
Mahalnya Keadilan by Mardika (Revolt Music) from Jakarta.
I am so glad to have Franziska Paul as our guest in this episode. She is a Lecturer in Political Economy at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. Dr. Franziska Paul holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Glasgow, with her thesis on energy democracy and trade union movement building towards a new, radical labour environmentalism. She then worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC-funded Global Remunicipalisation project, in which she contributed some publications on public ownership, de-privatisation and democratisation of key services and infrastructures, including some case study in the US and Germany. Franziska is also involved with the Public Futures database, a collaborative initiative that was initiated by Transnational Institute in 2007; this database is the first comprehensive collection of de-privatisation cases in the world. In this episode I speak with Franziska about the German particular trajectory of neoliberal state and its context from which some social movement initiatives emerged to influence public policy.
Minute 5 our conversation starts with Franziska’s research trajectory and the Global Remunicipalisation Research Project
Minute 10 the governing structure of German states and public service provision obligation
Minute 14 the role of municipalities and ‘Daseinsvorsorge’
Minute 17 some rooms for privatization in the governance structures and the role of labour unions (for de-privatization)
Minute 20 Prathiwi’s comment on a couple of crucial agenda for the People’s Water Forum, Bali 2024
Minute 20.5 The conditions of possibility for labour unions care about environment
Minute 21 the global network of Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED)
Minute 23 back to neoliberalism, the role of local state in it (a trajectory of Germany)
Minute 30 the French model and the British model of privatization
CO-Water Voice Theme Music: Solidas by Marjinal. The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was meant to support the struggles of communities in Indonesia against land grabbing and environmental degradation caused by the mining industry. Specific dedication in that evening was for the farming community in Wadas, whose village was destroyed by stone mining.
Opening music: Biru Beriak by Lair from Jatiwangi, West Java. The music is dedicated to fisherfolk communities.
Closing music and song: Selamat Pagi by Sanggar Ciliwung Merdeka. The song was recorded by Prathiwi in Jakarta during their rehearsal on 18 March 2017. The children were still actively singing after their riverside workshop had been demolished in 2016, during a forced eviction. In 2016 alone, there were 193 cases of forced evictions with direct victims of 5.726 households and 5.379 informal business units in the kampungs of Jakarta, or the so-called slums, in the name of the Ciliwung river normalization program.
Episode #4.3 The People’s Coalition for the Rights to Water (KRUHA): the political economy context of its birth and the terrains of its struggles
Minute 2 an introduction to the Episode
Minute 3 a conversation with KRUHA begins with a summary how we got to know each other
Minute 4.5 the context from which KRUHA was born in 2002, the political economy in Indonesia at that time, including the role of World Bank
Minute 9 work-focus of KRUHA against the political agenda of World Bank, including KRUHA’s reading on Integrated Water Resource Management
Minute 11 the true root of Integrated Water Resource Management before it was reduced as merely an economic prescription of the World Bank
Minute 12 privatization as a political initiative to create water crisis
Minute 13.5 the word Coalition in ‘KRUHA’, what is it? Who were the members of the Coalition?
Minute 16,5 the political agenda of the Coalition
Minute 19 the case of water privatization in Jakarta, why urban water as the target for profit
Minute 21 Constitutional Court on public good VS. private good
Minute 27.5 How the logic of ‘water for profit’ operates before and after the decision of Constitutional Court to annul the 2004 Water Law that was neoliberal in nature
Minute 28 if writing a new law will matter to end privatization in the water sector
Minute 32 the relation between normative law and bureaucratic functions (including Omnibus Law)
Minute 35 new geopolitical configuration of corporative powerMinute 40 back to the role of social movement
Music:
Solidas by Marjinal. The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was meant to support the struggles of communities in Indonesia against land grabbing and environmental degradation caused by the mining industry. Specific dedication in that evening was for the farming community in Wadas, whose village was destroyed by stone mining.
Biru Beriak by Lair from Jatiwangi, West Java. The music is dedicated to fisherfolk communities.
Mahalnya Keadilan by Mardika (Revolt Music) from Jakarta.
Episode #4.2 on the trajectory of privatisation and the logic of (global) capital, as well as some possible paths that have emerged to improve public services
David McDonald joins us in this episode. He is a Professor in the Department of Global Development Studies at Queen’s University in Canada.
He founded Municipal Services Project and serves as the co-director since 2000; Informed by social movements, labour unions and community groups, the Municipal Services Project examines trajectories of privatization in several countries and the possible paths towards the alternatives that have emerged from these particular locations. His extensive publications have enriched the debates over public versus private service delivery, especially in water, electricity and health care sectors, but he also locates these debates within the wider problems of urbanization, environmental justice and uneven development.
In this episode, we speak about the future of water services and the central institutional and agential transformations that might shape this future.
Minute 1.5 A Brief Introduction to Season 4
Minute 3 introducing David McDonald
Minute 4 the conversation begins
Minute 18 we (should) ask ‘do we really want to go back to that Keynesian era?’, pro-public movement as the opposite of the privatization movement should be expanded and consolidated
Minute 22 on technological arrangement in the context of control and democracy, on what kind of public service that we want, how to construct water utilities
Minute 29 the role of global pro-public movements, an understanding of what McDonald calls ‘generational shift’ for us to understand about the role of social movement, but also ‘ideological shift’
Minute 33 benchmarking of public water utilities, including the role of labour unions
Ca. Minute 39 public banks and cooperatives, on scale and level of provision as well as some key research agenda on public services in the context of climate change
Music:
Solidas by Marjinal. The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was meant to support the struggles of communities in Indonesia against land grabbing and environmental degradation caused by the mining industry. Specific dedication in that evening was for the farming community in Wadas, whose village was destroyed by stone mining.
Biru Beriak by Lair from Jatiwangi, West Java. The music is dedicated to fisherfolk communities.
Mahalnya Keadilan by Mardika (Revolt Music) from Jakarta.
Season #4 WATER PRIVATIZATION AND ITS RADICAL ALTERNATIVES
Minute 1 what in Season 4
Minute 2.15 who joins us in Season 4
Minute 3 about the Introductory Episode (English)
Minute 5.30 onwards a conversation with Nila Ardhianie, Marwa and Mohamad Mova Al’Afghani (Bahasa Indonesia)
In Season 4, I have discussions with David McDonald (Queen’s University), Franziska Paul (University of Glasgow), Mangala Subramaniam (Virginia Commonwealth University), Margherita D’Andrea(University of Naples) and Giuseppe Micciarelli (University of Salerno), as well as Sirisha Naidu (University of Missouri - Kansas City). Equally important, we also hear from Muhammad Reza Sahib, Irwansyah and many other Indonesian activists and scholar activists.
In this introductory episode I have a conversation with three researchers who have been following the anti-privatization and anti-commercialization movement in Indonesia. Nila Ardhianie is joining us, she is the founder of Amrta Institute for Water Literacy. We are also accompanied by Marwa, a lecturer at the University of Gadjah Mada and a PhD candidate at Cambridge University. Not the least important, we are happy to have with us Mohamad Mova Al’Afghani the founder and director of Center for Regulation Policy and Governance. Our conversation is in Bahasa Indonesia, but they have also individually published a number of articles, so find them in the internet for more knowledge. I think in our conversation we have listed important issues for us to immediately follow up for an improved water governance in Indonesia.
Music:
Solidas by Marjinal. The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was meant to support the struggles of communities in Indonesia against land grabbing and environmental degradation caused by the mining industry. Specific dedication in that evening was for the farming community in Wadas, whose village was destroyed by stone mining.
Biru Beriak by Lair from Jatiwangi, West Java. The music is dedicated to fisherfolk communities.
Jakarta by Mardika (Revolt Music) from Jakarta.
On this episode CO-Water Voice collaborates with Trialog, a Journal for Planning and Building in a Global Context for the launching of Trialog Vol. 142 Decentralized Water Management in Rapidly Growing Cities. The guest editorial team from Hafencity Universität was led by Prof. Dr. -Ing. Wolfgang Dickhaut, with Ajith Edahoot, Tim Fettback, and Mahmoud Moursy.
On this podcast Episode, we hear the excerpts of the article presentations, and in the second part from the minute 34 onwards, I open the discussion session. It is opened and ended by a message from Trialog’s coordinating editor Dorcas Nthoki Nyamai.
Opening music:
Biru Beriak by Lair from Jatiwangi, West Java. The music is dedicated to fisherfolk communities.
Theme music:
Solidas by Marjinal. The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was meant to support the struggles of communities in Indonesia against land grabbing and environmental degradation caused by the mining industry. Specific dedication in that evening was for the farming community in Wadas, whose village was destroyed by stone mining. The mining supplies the material to build a new large dam that had been long planned by the national government to supply water and energy for the new international airport in Southern Java.
Closing music and song:
Selamat Pagi by Sanggar Ciliwung Merdeka. The song was recorded by Prathiwi in Jakarta during their rehearsal on 18 March 2017. The children were still actively singing after their riverside workshop had been demolished in 2016, during a forced eviction. In 2016 alone, there were 193 cases of forced evictions with direct victims of 5.726 households and 5.379 informal business units in the kampungs of Jakarta, or the so-called slums, in the name of the Ciliwung river normalization program.
On this episode, we speak to Antje Stokman. She is a Professor of landscape architecture and landscape planning at HafenCity Universität Hamburg. She has led various urban water projects in different cities. Her academic research is centred at the interplays among hydrological dynamics, urban landscape, water governance as well as the social-cultural dynamics in the world of water. Today we talk about waterscape in the city, in what ways it matters for and are affected by the larger social-ecological scales, and how we can improve the management and planning of urban water infrastructures. There is some guidance we receive from this conversation such as a new holistic approach to urban water, considering the flow of water not only in its spatial dimension but also its temporal dimension, as well as some insights to improve education and knowledge accumulation within the urban water sector.
Opening music:
Biru Beriak by Lair from Jatiwangi, West Java. The music is dedicated to fisherfolk communities.
Theme music:
Solidas by Marjinal. The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was meant to support the struggles of communities in Indonesia against land grabbing and environmental degradation caused by the mining industry. Specific dedication in that evening was for the farming community in Wadas, whose village was destroyed by stone mining. The mining supplies the material to build a new large dam that had been long planned by the national government to supply water and energy for the new international airport in Southern Java.
Season music:
Jakarta by Mardika (Revolt Music)
Bosman Batubara through his long research on Jakarta's floods and his personal reflection on rural-to-urban migration argues for a political ecology of urbanization. He has contributed greatly to the scholarship of urban water. I remember the debates organized by Bharat Punjabi, published by IJURR in 2015 to response to the important contribution of Karren Bakker, Privatizing Water. In these debates, one commentator Vinay Gidwani points at an area that could be improved in Karen Bakker's book, that is an analysis about the dialectic of city and country as intertwined ecologies. To me, Bosman Batubara has responded to Gidwani's call. This conversation was done in Bahasa Indonesia.
Theme music:
Solidas by Marjinal. The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was meant to support the struggles of communities in Indonesia against land grabbing and environmental degradation caused by the mining industry. Specific dedication in that evening was for the farming community in Wadas, whose village was destroyed by stone mining. The mining supplies the material to build a new large dam that had been long planned by the national government to supply water and energy for the new international airport in Southern Java.
Opening music:
Biru Beriak by Lair from Jatiwangi, West Java. The music is dedicated to fisherfolk communities.
Season music:
Jakarta by Mardika (Revolt Music)
Katrin Pakizer is with us on this episode. She is a post-doc researcher at Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology where she investigates different pathways that lead to water supply and wastewater regionalization. She is also a research associate at the ZHAW School of Management and Law in Switzerland, specifically at its Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. On this episode we speak about her recently defended PhD Thesis at ETH Zürich, about Modular Decentralized Water Technologies. She works with several case studies, including the Housing Co-operative Equilibre in Geneva. From the latter, she found what she refers as experiments by the people and for the people. In the context of Switzerland, there is a long tradition of housing co-operative, and in this we see not individual actions but collective ones. Housing co-operatives function as social housing to include the needs of different income groups in the society. She also explains on this episode, the term ‘policy sequencing’ and some future research agenda in the water sector.
Opening music:
Biru Beriak by Lair from Jatiwangi, West Java. The music is dedicated to fisherfolk communities.
Theme music:
Solidas by Marjinal. The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was meant to support the struggles of communities in Indonesia against land grabbing and environmental degradation caused by the mining industry. Specific dedication in that evening was for the farming community in Wadas, whose village was destroyed by stone mining. The mining supplies the material to build a new large dam that had been long planned by the national government to supply water and energy for the new international airport in Southern Java.
Season music:
Jakarta by Mardika (Revolt Music)
On this episode, we have a good opportunity to speak with Timothy Moss. Timothy Moss is a Senior Researcher at the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems at the Humboldt University of Berlin and Honorary Professor at the Leibniz University of Hannover.
He is the author of Remaking Berlin: A History of the City Through Infrastructure that was published in 2020.This conversation, with examples from Berlin, shows only a tiny tiny part of his knowledge about transformations and dynamics of urban infrastructures. For more good sources about Berlin, you can watch for example some films of his research project funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation.
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Theme music:
Solidas by Marjinal. The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was meant to support the struggles of communities in Indonesia against land grabbing and environmental degradation caused by the mining industry. Specific dedication in that evening was for the farming community in Wadas, whose village was destroyed by stone mining. The mining supplies the material to build a new large dam that had been long planned by the national government to supply water and energy for the new international airport in Southern Java.
Season music:
Jakarta by Mardika (Revolt Music)
A small episode, a brief message from Prathiwi about the coming seasons on Urban Water.
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Music: Lair, Biru Beriak; Marjinal, Solidas
In the second season of CO-Water Voice, in summer 2022, I invite you to understand conflicts over water resources and water ecosystems in a critical manner.
As our guest on this episode, we have Sören Köpke, my colleague at the Department of International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance, at the University of Kassel. He currently works for the Aurora Project, which is a research cooperation among four universities in Lebanon, Marocco, Tunisia and Germany. In his works, he has been focusing on the social-ecological dynamics of food systems and international policy of environmental change. He has conducted an intensive field research in Sri Lanka for a long period, among his other international field works. His PhD thesis was defended at the Technische Universität Braunschweig in 2018, on drought, development and environmental conflicts in eight regions: Southern Madagascar, Inner Mongolia, Southern Malawi, Northerneast Brazil, Sri Lanka, and Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan, India. On this episode, we have a conversation about the political ecology of dryland regions and a methodological approach to research on water (and water conflicts).
CO-Water Theme Music: Solidas by Marjinal from Jakarta. The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the vocalist of the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was especially dedicated for the farming community in Wadas, a village that was destroyed by stone mining. The mining supplies the material to build a new large dam that had been long planned by the national government, to supply water and energy for the new international airport in Java.
Opening Music: Biru Beriak by Lair from Jatiwangi, West Java. The music is dedicated to fisherfolk communities.
Interview-opening music: Mahalnya Keadilan by Mardika (Revolt Music) from Jakarta.
Closing music and song: Selamat Pagi by Sanggar Ciliwung Merdeka. The song was recorded by Prathiwi in Jakarta during their rehearsal on 18 March 2017. The children were still actively singing after their riverside workshop had been demolished in 2016, during a forced eviction. In 2016 alone, there were 193 cases of forced evictions with direct victims of 5.726 households and 5.379 informal business units in the kampungs of Jakarta, or the so-called slums, in the name of the Ciliwung river normalization program.
In the second season of CO-Water Voice, in summer 2022, I invite you to understand conflicts over water resources and water ecosystems in a critical manner.
Leila Harris is with us on this episode! She is a Professor at the Institute for Resources Environment and Sustainability (IRES) and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ) at the University of British Columbia. On this episode, we have an interesting conversation about equity in counterbalancing efficiency, the pluriverse of water systems, as well as the spatial and scalar dimensions of water conflict.
CO-Water Theme Music: Solidas by Marjinal from Jakarta. The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the vocalist of the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was especially dedicated for the farming community in Wadas, a village that was destroyed by stone mining. The mining supplies the material to build a new large dam that had been long planned by the national government, to supply water and energy for the new international airport in Java.
Opening Music: Biru Beriak by Lair from Jatiwangi, West Java. The music is dedicated to fisherfolk communities.
Interview-opening and closing music: Mahalnya Keadilan by Mardika (Revolt Music) from Jakarta.
A conversation with Ahmed Soliman, a PhD Candidate at the Department of International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance, University of Kassel.
Opening music:
Solidas by Marjinal. The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the vocalist of the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was especially dedicated for the farming community in Wadas, a village that was destroyed by stone mining. The mining supplies the material to build a new large dam that had been long planned by the national government, to supply water and energy for the new international airport in Java.
Closing music and song:
Selamat Pagi by Sanggar Ciliwung Merdeka. The song was recorded by Prathiwi in Jakarta during their rehearsal on 18 March 2017. The children were still actively singing after their riverside workshop had been demolished in 2016, during a forced eviction. In 2016 alone, there were 193 cases of forced evictions with direct victims of 5.726 households and 5.379 informal business units in the kampungs of Jakarta, or the so-called slums, in the name of the Ciliwung river normalization program.
A conversation with Arvind Lakshmisha, a PhD Candidate at the Department of International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance, University of Kassel.
Opening music:
Solidas by Marjinal. The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the vocalist of the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was especially dedicated for the farming community in Wadas, a village that was destroyed by stone mining. The mining supplies the material to build a new large dam that had been long planned by the national government, to supply water and energy for the new international airport in Java.
Closing music and song:
Selamat Pagi by Sanggar Ciliwung Merdeka. The song was recorded by Prathiwi in Jakarta during their rehearsal on 18 March 2017. The children were still actively singing after their riverside workshop had been demolished in 2016, during a forced eviction. In 2016 alone, there were 193 cases of forced evictions with direct victims of 5.726 households and 5.379 informal business units in the kampungs of Jakarta, or the so-called slums, in the name of the Ciliwung river normalization program.
A conversation with Nora Schütze, a PhD Candidate at the Department of International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance, University of Kassel.
Opening music:
Solidas by Marjinal. The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the vocalist of the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was especially dedicated for the farming community in Wadas, a village that was destroyed by stone mining. The mining supplies the material to build a new large dam that had been long planned by the national government, to supply water and energy for the new international airport in Java.
Closing music and song:
Selamat Pagi by Sanggar Ciliwung Merdeka. The song was recorded by Prathiwi in Jakarta during their rehearsal on 18 March 2017. The children were still actively singing after their riverside workshop had been demolished in 2016, during a forced eviction. In 2016 alone, there were 193 cases of forced evictions with direct victims of 5.726 households and 5.379 informal business units in the kampungs of Jakarta, or the so-called slums, in the name of the Ciliwung river normalization program.
In this first episode, I present a conversation with my research mentor, Prof. Andreas Thiel at the University of Kassel.
Opening music:
Solidas by Marjinal. The music was created during the solidarity action in Berlin, which was organized by the vocalist of the band on 18 February 2022. The solidarity evening was especially dedicated for the farming community in Wadas, a village that was destroyed by stone mining. The mining supplies the material to build a new large dam that had been long planned by the national government, to supply water and energy for the new international airport in Java.
Closing music and song:
Selamat Pagi by Sanggar Ciliwung Merdeka. The song was recorded by Prathiwi in Jakarta during their rehearsal on 18 March 2017. The children were still actively singing after their riverside workshop had been demolished in 2016, during a forced eviction. In 2016 alone, there were 193 cases of forced evictions with direct victims of 5.726 households and 5.379 informal business units in the kampungs of Jakarta, or the so-called slums, in the name of the Ciliwung river normalization program.