Publications

Ley, Lukas. 2025. ‘Impoldering Indonesia’: of universal water technology and unfinishedness in Samarang. Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2025.2476949.

Ley, Lukas. 2023. The 'kampung formula': infrastructural adventurism and public art in Semarang, Indonesia. Urban Studies 60(13): 2612–2631. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980231156.

Ley, Lukas and Raúl Acosta. 2023. Urban bioinfrastructures: an introduction. Roadsides 10: 1–8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26034/roadsides-202301001.

Ley, Lukas and Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov. 2023. Editorial. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale 31(1): V-VII. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/saas.2023.310101.

Ley, Lukas. 2022. On the margins of the hydrosocial: quasi-events along a stagnant river. Geoforum 131: 234–242. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.03.010.

von Storch, Lilian, Jing Sun, and Lukas Ley. 2021. New climate change activism: before and after the Covid-19 pandemic. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale 29(1): 205–209. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13005.

Ley, Lukas and Franz Krause. 2019. Ethnographic conversations with Wittfogel's ghost: an introduction. Environment and Planning C 37(7): 1151–1160. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654419873677.

Ley, Lukas. 2018. Discipline and drain: river normalization and Semarang's fight against tidal flooding. Indonesia 105: 53–75. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ind.2018.0002.

Ley, Lukas. 2016. "Dry feet for all": flood management and chronic time in Semarang, Indonesia. Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies 9(1): 107–125. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-2016.1-7.

Ley, Lukas. 2021. The global swamp: the amphibious as a figure of heterotopia. In: Franz Krause and Mark Harris (eds.). Delta Life: exploring dynamic environments where rivers meet the Sea. Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology 28. New York; Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 57–80.

Ley, Lukas. 2021. Figuring (out) the sinking city: tidal floods and urban subsidence in Semarang, Indonesia. In: Eli Elinoff and Tyson Vaughan (eds.). Disastrous times: beyond environmental crisis in urbanizing Asia. Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 46–64.

Ley, Lukas. 2018. Jacobs, Jane. In: Bryan S. Turner (ed.). The Wiley Blackwell encyclopedia of social theory 3. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, pp. 1211–1214.

Acosta, Raúl and Lukas Ley (eds.). 2023. Urban bioinfrastructures. Roadsides 10.

Ley, Lukas. 2024. Co-habiting in the mode of despite. Living in a Mode of Despite. https://americanethnologist.org/online-content/collections/living-in-a-mode-of-despite/co-habiting-in-the-mode-of-despiteby-lukas-ley/.

Ley, Lukas. 2020. Chronic present. Network for Contemporary Anthropological Theory. http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0009-2197-7.

Ley, Lukas. 2021. The coastal edge. Anthropology News, January 12, 2021.

Ley, Lukas. 2020. A future history of water. Andrea Ballestero, Durham: Duke University Press, 2019, 232 pp. City and Society 32(3). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12346.

Ley, Lukas. 2018. Hydraulic city: water and the infrastructures of citizenship in Mumbai. Nikhil Anand, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2017, 312 pp. City and Society 30(3). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12186.

Ley, Lukas. 2018. Goldstein, Daniel M.: Owners of the sidewalk. Security and survival in the informal city. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. 334 pp. Anthropos 113(1): 304–306. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5771/0257-9774-2018-1-304.

Ley, Lukas. 2021. Building on borrowed time: rising seas and failing infrastructure in Semarang. Minneapolis; London: University of Minnesota Press.

Ley, Lukas. 2023. Building on Borrowed Time. Read On.