Infrastructures as Knowledge Devices: Perceiving Sea Level Rise along East India’s Retreating Coastlines
Arne Harms (SFB 1199)
Publication Date
January 2018
Publisher
UNESCO-ICQHS
Language
English
Type
Book Chapter
Book Title
Proceedings of the International Expert Meeting on “Climate Change Adaptation and Indigenous Knowledge of Water Management in Asia Pacific” in Yazd, Iran
Biographical Note
Arne Harms is lecturer at the Institute of Anthropology and Senior Researcher at Collaborative Research Center ‘Practices of Spatialization under the Global Condition’ (SFB 1199). He has his PhD from FU Berlin for an ethnography of environmental displacement in India’s Ganges delta.Arne’s current research is concerned with coastal protection and the financialization of nature conservation in India, and with ethics and self-formation amidst mounting environmental crises. To this end, he also convenes an environmental anthropology reading group, called CONCERN. In addition to teaching and research, he is point person for external instructors and for university partnerships with India. In the past, he has held positions and fellowships at universities in Berlin, Cologne, and Munich as well as Nalanda University in India, and received grants from Hans-Böckler Stiftung and DAAD.