I´m an anthropologist, writer, and lecturer based at the University of Bonn (BCDSS), and the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS). I broadly work on nature-society relations across marine, coastal, and urban contexts impacted by colonial histories and socio-environmental risks. For the most part, I grew up in maritime port cities – Abu Dhabi, Colombo, and Singapore. I received my graduate training at the Universities of Oxford and Bonn, while remaining close to my roots in the anthropology of Southeast Asia, theatre studies, and Anglophone literature (NUS, Singapore). I also possess a postgraduate diploma in counselling and social work practice (Bamberg), through which I independently work with early career scholars within the ambit of Humanizing Academia.
Founding co-curatorsPeter Kæergaard Anderson Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa Sayan Dey Damian Borovsky Welcome to the Reverberations Counter-Atlas!As an experimental, open-ended cartographic project, it brings into conversation wildly eclectic transoceanic “things” that flow, circulate, and sojourn – allegorically as reverberations – across and beyond Indian Ocean worlds,… Read More »Reverberations Counter-Atlas
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.
Tracing gendered intergenerational taxonomic knowledge among shell gleaners in Zanzibar.
Exploring contradictory meanings around ‘invasive’ and nuisance species through sojourning stories of seagrasses and macroalgae in the east Caribbean (Bonaire & Jamaica)
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.
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.
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.
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