The symposium ‘Translating Sea-Level Change in Urban Life’ aims to bring together researchers from the social sciences, the humanities and area studies with practitioners and policy-makers that work across a diverse range of themes relating to the lived and experiential aspects of (relative) sea-level change in Southeast Asia.
The event is targeted at international researchers and scholars that work at the science-policy interface spanning a range of disciplines that include geography, sociology, anthropology, political science and environmental history.
In particular, we welcome contributions that focus on how ways of living with water are being socio-culturally translated in urban contexts. These may include topics such as:
- Imaginaries, contradictions, and broader material and discursive politics of coastal protection, mitigation and adaptation in Southeast Asian cities;
- Socio-political contestations in the making of ‘new’ knowledges, policies, and coastal justice concerns (e.g. in connection to the privatization of coastal spaces, gentrification, and urban displacement);
- Living with/out water: everyday discourses and practices that challenge and/or rupture mainstream modes of coastal life (e.g. artificial island reclamation, the refashioning of coastal lifestyles such as amphibious dwelling, ‘sea steading’ etc.);
- Futuring the Coastal Metropolis in policy and other socio-ecological and technological innovations.
The symposium will be organized in the form of a roundtable dialogue with pre-drafted extended abstracts. Particular emphasis will be placed on refining arguments and texts in preparation for an edited volume to be published.
Abstract submissions
Participants are encouraged to submit an abstract (max. 250 words) and a short CV to Dr. Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa (rsi@leibniz-zmt.de) and Dr. Johannes Herbeck (herbeck@uni-bremen.de).
A limited number of travel stipends for speakers and contributors are available upon request. Please note that not all requests can be met, as we will be prioritizing on applications from current postgraduate students. To apply for a small travel grant, please email us before May 15, 2018.
For more information, visit: https://www.emersa.org/events/
