ABSTRACT
“Islamist Urbanism” explores the recent Islamist ascendency and its articulation in urban space in Jakarta and Bandung, the two major cities of West Java. It examines the ways in which democratic social order and the quest for a religious self inform each other in shaping urban form and space. How practices associated with neoliberal reforms as represented by competition, individualism and self-cultivation are reworked in and through the built environment as a medium for the articulation of conservative Islamist identity and concerns.
