Current Project

My current project focuses on the intersection of resilience and truth. Amidst the climate crisis, resilience has emerged as a new buzzword. A resilience renaissance is proliferating as a dominant rationality for governing climate change worldwide. Yet resilience has been criticised for depoliticising marginalised and vulnerable populations. Against this backdrop, rather than assuming the absolute or universal truth of resilience, my research focuses on its manifestation. This means examining how climate change resilience manifests as truth(s) that justify its deployment. I am working on a monograph titled Resilience and Truth, with the aim of publishing it with a university press or academic publisher. It concerns the nature, knowledge, and truth of climate change resilience. It is an adaptation of my PhD thesis, with expanded and revised materials. I have received a joint scholarship from the Bassi and Christopher Moyes Memorial Foundations for its editorial assistance. 

Past Projects

My past projects range from climate change adaptation, resilience and particulate air pollution (PAP) protection to urban political ecology and comparative urbanism in Asia and Europe, which are listed as follows:

  1. Factors Affecting Childhood Exposure to Urban Particulates (FACE-UP), funded by a UKRI Collective Fund under the Global Challenges Research Fund (2023-2026).
  2. Overlooked Cities: Thinking and Doing Global Urban Studies Differently, funded by Urban Studies Foundation Seminar Series Award (USF) (2023-2024).
  3. Cluster for Cloud to Coast for Climate Change Adaptation (C5a), funded by Interreg North Sea Region (2019-2022).
  4. Transformational Adaptation to Climate Change: A Review of Societal Mechanisms, funded by 4TU Designing Systems for Informed Resilience (DeSIRE) (2021-2022).
  5. Coloniality, Decoloniality and Extractive Anthropocenes, funded by the British Academy Seed Funding (2021-2022).
  6. The Heath Interventions in Volcanic Eruptions (HIVE), funded by Elrha’s Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises (R2HC) (2018-2019).
  7. Urban Political Ecology and Disaster Risk Reduction in Coastal Villages in Bandar Lampung City, Indonesia, funded by Institute of Technology Sumatera (ITERA) Research Grant (2018-2019).
  8. Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN), funded by the Rockefeller Foundation (2009-2015).