Originally from England and a geographer his entire career, Dr. Sheppard’s scholarly interests range across geographical political economy of a Marxian and post-colonial bent: uneven geographies of capitalist globalization, more-than-capitalist practices, environmental justice, urban land, southern urban theory, social movements, and urban politics. Dr. Leitner and Dr. Sheppard first encountered Jakarta when spending a year there in the mid-1980s, as part of a World Bank-funded curriculum development project at the University of Indonesia. Returning twenty years later, they met local colleagues and identified a shared desire to revalue kampungs as supporting diverse livelihood strategies enabling the urban majority to make lives for themselves in the city. For each of the past six years, they have completed a month of fieldwork in central and peri-urban Jakarta. Dr. Sheppard currently teaches in the Department of Geography at UCLA.