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My research mainly focuses on urban issues in Indonesia, and explores a number of themes including urban informal economies; urban transformations in post-authoritarian cities; and sovereignty, citizenship, and political organization in the city.

My PhD from the University of Toronto examined a government-organized relocation of street vendors in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It explored how a group of street traders sought to negotiate their rights in the context of the country’s recent transition to democracy.

I am currently working on a SSHRC-funded project (2014-2016) with Dr. Joshua Barker on urban infrastructures in Indonesia. The primary objective is to show that the physical and organizational structures of cities are key political terrains for understanding 21st-century urban politics. Our research explores how urban struggles over infrastructures are central to shaping how urban residents experience unequal citizenship and how various groups gain power in the city.

• Insight Development Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) (2014-2016).

I have research assistantship opportunities for undergraduate students interested in urban issues and Indonesia. Fieldwork in Indonesia may also be available in the summer. Contact me for more information.

• 2013 Gibbings, Sheri Lynn. “Unnamed Interests and Informal Leaders: A Street Vendor Relocation in Yogyakarta City.” Indonesia 96(October):151–183.
• 2013 Gibbings, Sheri Lynn. “Unseen Powers and Democratic Detectives: Street Vendors in an Indonesian City.” Special Issue, “Figuring Urban Transformation,” City & Society 25(2):235–259.
• 2013 “No Angry Women at the United Nations: Political Dreams and the Cultural Politics of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325.” In Gender, Governance and International Security, Nicola Pratt and Sophie Richter-Devroe, eds. Pp. 34–50. London: Routledge.
• 2013 “Street Vendor.” In Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity, Joshua Barker, Erik Harms, and Johan Lindquist, eds. Pp. 156–159. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.
• 2012 Gibbings, Sheri Lynn, and Fridus Steijlen. “Colonial Figures: Memories of Street Traders in the Colonial and Early Post-colonial Periods.” Public History Review 19:63–85.
• 2011 Gibbings, Sheri. “No Angry Women at the UN: Political Dreams and the Cultural Politics of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325.” International Journal of Feminist Politics 13(4):532–548.

• 51±¾É« researchers receive over 2.7 million in federal social sciences and humanities funding
• 51±¾É« researcher receives major grant to study social impacts of ridesharing