Transnational Projects (2015-2024)

[ DFG-funded, 2016-2020 ] | An interdisciplinary project critically exploring how certain epistemologies and ‘best practices’ gain political traction and legitimacy as adaptation solutions to sea level rise and subsidence in Manila, Singapore, and Jakarta. Partners: National University of Singapore (Sociology), Universitas Indonesia, and Ateneo de Manila University and the University of Asia and the Pacific (Philippines)

[ DFG-funded, 2020-2023 ] | A second-phase project following BlueUrban. Deepens an understanding into how global networks of floating city experimentation for living with sea change influence speculative infrastructural futures of Javanese urban centres, and their often terra-centric planning visions and imaginaries. Partners: National University of Singapore (Sociology), Universitas Indonesia

[ ZMT Core budget funded (2017-2018) ] | Exploring the postcolonial political, folkloric, spectral, ethical, and techno-scientific meanings of urban mangroves in Penang amid rapid land use change, deforestation, and coastal reclamation. Partners: Univerti Sains Malaysia (CEMACS) & Bangor University

[ ZMT Core budget funded (2017-2018) ] | Tracing the contradictory meanings of ‘invasive’ and nuisance species through the sojourning stories of seagrasses and macroalgae in the eastern Caribbean (Bonaire & Jamaica). Partners: STINAPA, Dutch Nature Caribbean Association, and the University of the West Indies.

[ ZMT Core budget funded (2017-2018) ] | Tracing gendered intergenerational taxonomic knowledge among shell gleaners in Zanzibar. Partner: Institute of Marine Science, Zanzibar.

Funded by the US SSRC’s Collaboratories for the Indian Ocean region — a transnational network of marine scholars, activists, artists and practitioners committed to pluralising and democratising oceanic and coastal knowledge- making across Indian Ocean worlds.