Paper short abstract

This study aims to unsettle the notion of 'river land' through 'kali mati' to understand the process of displacements under flood-control policy in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia.

Paper long abstract

The study offers an attention to grounded understanding of space and time in riverbank settlement based on how the place is named and lived in the present and represented in history. 'Tanah kali' or river land refers to temporary space river and embodied history of settling on river, while the 'kalimati' or dead river refers to dry and stagnant flowing water that constitutes life of river. They propose the temporality of river to rethinking displacements and flood-control policy in urban history.