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Climate Change in Coastal Cities: Centring the Voices of Urban Residents in Asia and Africa

24 - 25 August 2021

Institutional panel of the IIAS-Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA), to be held at the 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 12).

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This symposium - organized by the Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA) as part of ICAS 12 - will foreground everyday urban practices as a source of knowledge and action in relation to the climate. What do the narratives and activities of city residents reveal about how the climate is changing? How are shifting climatic conditions conceptualized, experienced, addressed or ignored on the ground? How is a sense of vulnerability or resilience in relation to the weather perceived at the level of the household, street or neighbourhood? And how might urban lived experience be mobilized to produce more inclusive and sustainable urban planning strategies?

The symposium will address these questions and more from the perspective of residents of coastal cities in Asia and Africa. Coastal cities, which house ever-growing numbers of people on both continents, are widely recognized as being particularly vulnerable to rising waters and extreme weather events. Creating a space for dialogue between those working on urban coastal climate change around the world, we seek to support a transnational and interdisciplinary network of scholars, committed to multi-centring knowledge production in this field. 

See the symposium programme here. For more information about the objectives and scope, download the concept note (pdf) for this event.

The symposium is organized by the Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA), with the generous support of our event partners, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the SOAS South Asia Institute (SSAI). It will be held online on 24-25 August 2021, during the 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 12), hosted by Kyoto Seika University. See here for more information about ICAS 12.

Roundtable 1:  SENSING AND STRUGGLING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE: EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE AND EVERYDAY RESISTANCE  

Mary Khatib
Leslie Mabon
Jyotsna Sara George
 

Roundtable 2:  REMAKING SPACE THROUGH THE AGES: PLANNING & DESIGN INTERVENTIONS 

Qudsia Naunehal Shah
Jennifer Gaynor
Ines Macamo Raimundo
Cristiana Strava
 

Roundtable 3:  THE CHANGING SEA: PERSPECTIVES FROM ART AND EVERYDAY LIFE 

Pamila Gupta
Mahendran Balasupramaniam
Neeha Susan Jacob
Lalitha Kamath

Roundtable 4: LIVING WITH FLOODS 

Shihab Kallupalam
Olusegun Titus
Almas Fortunatus Mazigo

Keynote: Professor James A. Ogude 

Contact

For further information and questions, please contact Ms Xiaolan Lin of the UKNA Secretariat at IIAS, at x.lin@iias.nl

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SSRC