Transnational Projects (2015-2024)

Donor organisations: German Science Foundation (DFG); US Social Science Research Council (SSRC); European Union COST Action, and the Leibniz Association (via ZMT´s Core Budget)

EMERSA (Epistemic Mobilities and the Governance of Environmental Risks in Island Southeast Asia)

An interdisciplinary project tracing what epistemologies and particular 'best practices' gain political traction and how they come to be legitimated as sound sea level change and subsidence related adaptation solutions across Manila, Singapore and Jakarta.

BlueUrban (Towards Blue Urbanism for Sea Level Change Adaptation: Global Trajectories and Speculative Futuring in Island Southeast Asia)

Understanding 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.

BAKAU – Biodiversity, resources and perceptions: A comparison of mangrove forests in rural versus urban settings of Penang, Malaysia

Exploring postcolonial political, folkloric, spectral, ethical, and techno-scientific meanings around urban mangroves in Penang island, and against the backdrop of rapid land use change, deforestation, and coastal land reclamation.

CIRCULATIONS – Island Connectivities and the Ambivalent Storying of Invasive Seagrass

Exploring contradictory meanings around 'invasive' and nuisance species through sojourning stories of seagrasses and macroalgae in the east Caribbean (Bonaire & Jamaica)

MARiTA (She sells seashells by the seashore: Local Marine Taxonomic Knowledge Systems and their Role in Community-based Conservation Practices in Zanzibar´s Shell Economy)

Tracing gendered intergenerational taxonomic knowledge among shell gleaners in Zanzibar.

The Southern Collective

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.