ArticleFrontiers in sociology2026
Producing the neoliberal city: spatial fragmentation and the politics of space in Batam, Indonesia.
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Although Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have become a distinctive mode of neoliberal urbanisation across Southeast Asia, critical urban scholarship has rarelybrought Henri Lefebvre's theory of the production of space into sustained dialogue with the concept of neoliberal space fragmentation in state-capitalist contexts in the Global South. This paper addresses that gap through an in-depth case study of Batam City, Indonesia. Established in 1973 as a state-planned industrial zone intended to rival Singapore, Batam has evolved into a paradigmatic site of neoliberal urbanisation in Southeast Asia. Drawing on 4 weeks of fieldwork (8-29 July 2024), eighteen semi-structured in-depth interviews analysed through NVivo-assisted thematic coding, and systematic triangulation with policy and planning documents, the study examines how spatial governance in Batam is shaped by the intersection of state authority, transnational capital, and everyday social practices. The findings show that Batam's urban development reflects the dominance of abstract space-a technocratic and commodified spatial logic that privileges accumulation and efficiency over social needs. State-corporate alliances and overlapping bureaucracies have produced a fragmented spatial order in which industrial enclaves, infrastructure corridors, and exclusive residential zones coexist with informal worker settlements (
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