Riverine Culture in Urban Context: Spatial ethnographic of urban floating kampung in Tumok Manggis, Sambas City, West Kalimantan

Authors

  • Mira Sophia Lubis Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, Kampus Baru UI, Depok 16424, Indonesia
  • Triatno J. Hardjoko
  • Dalhar Susanto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v2i5.666

Abstract

Waterfront might be conceived as an entry to places where urbanity evolves. The physical process arises from the socio-political and economic development of its society. It entails a complex social and ecological processes constantly occur and how they interfere with each other. This paper analyses the ethnography of place in Tumok, a traditional floating kampung in Sambas, in the perspective of socio-ecology. This study is in an initial part of an ongoing Ph.D research on the urban political ecology of river settlements. Up to this stage, research findings have shown that becoming such a part of the past riverine culture in the context of present land-oriented urban culture has raised a new insight about how to view the urban waterfront.

Keywords: riverine culture; socio-ecological process; spatial ethnography; urban kampung 

ISSN: 2398-4287© 2017. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, UniversitiTeknologi MARA, Malaysia.

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2017-03-19

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Lubis, M. S., Hardjoko, T. J., & Susanto, D. (2017). Riverine Culture in Urban Context: Spatial ethnographic of urban floating kampung in Tumok Manggis, Sambas City, West Kalimantan. Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal, 2(5), 247–254. https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v2i5.666

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Local Cultural / Heritage Environment (Food included)