Coastal Urbanities. Cet article n’est pas disponible.Coastal Urbanities

This volume explores how the city and the sea converse and converge in creating new forms of everyday urbanity in archipelagic and island Southeast Asia. Drawing inspiration from case studies spanning Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, and New Caledonia, the volume rethinks the place of the sea in coastal cities, through a mobility-inspired understanding of urbanity itself. How might conceptualisations of contemporary coastal urbanisms be approached from the sea, in ways that complicate singularly terrestrial, fixed framings of the city? What connections, contradictions, and dissonances can be found between sea change and urban change? While addressing these questions, the authors re-centre more marginal voices of those who dwell and work in islanded metropoles, offering new insights on the futures and contested nature(s) of littoral urban transformation.

Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa is Senior Scientist at the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (Germany). Her work examines littoral lifeworlds, decolonial island relations, and speculative infrastructural futures while drawing on mobile, multimodal ethnographic approaches. She is author of Fishing, Mobility and Settlerhood: Coastal Socialities in Postwar Sri Lanka (Springer, 2018), and is co-editor of the anthology Rebel Wom!n: Words, Ways, and Wonders (DIO Press, 2023).

Kelvin E.Y. Low is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the National University of Singapore. His main research interests include sensory studies, migration and transnationalism, social memory, and food and foodways. He is author or editor of four books with the most recent being Senses in Cities: Experiences of Urban Settings (Routledge, 2017).

Noorman Abdullah is Assistant Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and holds a joint-appointment as Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and Malay Studies, National University of Singapore. He focuses primarily on religion and society, deviance and social control, together with sensory studies. His publications have appeared in journals such as American Behavioral Scientist, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies and Asian Journal of Social Sciences.

Anna-Katharina Hornidge is Director of the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) and Professor for Global Sustainable Development at the University of Bonn. She works on knowledges and innovation for international development, and questions around natural resource governance in agriculture and fisheries in Asia and Africa. She is co-editor of multiple books including The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (Routledge, 2018).