Multi-sited fieldwork spaces: Metro Manila, Singapore, & Jakarta (February 2017- March 2020)
Donor – DFG SPP 1889 Regional Sea Level and Society (2016-2020)
PIs – Prof. Anna-Katharina Hornidge & Prof. Michael Flitner, with partner institutions National
University of Singapore (Prof. Kelvin Low & Dr. Noorman Abdullah), University of Asia and the Pacific (Dr. Elizabeth Urgel), and Universitas Indonesia (Dr. Andy Simarmata)
The first-phase study explored how policy interventions and social practices, together with standardized ´recipes´ and solutions for living with the effects of sea level change in coastal megacities that are often advocated by states, international donors, and civil society organizations are taken up, contextually translated, politically legitimized and at times re-circulated internationally by local actors. By analyzing coastal megacities as laboratories for anticipatory un/re-learning for risk governance, the project contributes to new currents in transformation research and practice. It does so by exploring how diverse socio-natural knowledges and epistemologies (i.e. ways of sense-making and place-making), together with material infrastructures shape localized forms of perceiving and living with coastal change.
Geographic and social mobilities also entail a crucial understudied aspect – epistemic mobilities that prefigure the travel and sojourning of ideas, worldviews, and systems of sense-making. By bringing together locally-grounded research from Jakarta, Manila and Singapore, the project abstracts from the level of empirical analysis in order to develop a mid-range concept on the interdependence of epistemic (im-)mobilities and its role in social learning for change adaptation.
