| The PhD project uses multi-sited ethnographic techniques and a broad, inter-disciplinary political-economy approach to explore the role of young people as actors in urban social, economic and political change processes. Research is focusing on ways in which young people confront and negotiate the processes, relationships and constraints which influence their access to /exclusion from continuing education; employment and careers, global and local cultural communities and political processes. The coastal town of Cilegon (population about 250,000) experienced rapid growth during the Suharto period, based initially on its combination of deep-sea port facilities and heavy industry (PT Krakatau Steel). Cilegon s economy is both vibrant and state-dependent. Interlinked with Cilegon s relatively large and dynamic formal-sector industrial and port sector is a large informal sector of transport, construction, trade, petty manufacture and repairs and service activities. |
