Dr. Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa
Abteilung
Umwelt-Governance
Funktion
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Fachrichtung
Soziologie
Vita
| Seit 01/2026 | German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Forschungsabteilung "Umwelt Governance" |
| 04/2024-12/2025 | Cluster of Excellence Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn, Germany Postdoctoral researcher |
| 07/2015-12/2023 | Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) , Germany Senior Researcher / Principal Investigator, BlueUrban (SPP 1889 Sealevel Change and Society) |
| 01/2015-06/2015 | UNFCCC Secretartiat, Bonn, Germany Carlo-Schmid Fellow |
| 09/201-06/2015 | University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF) DPhil in Development Studies |
| 01/2011-08/2011 | National Youth Council, Singapore Programme Development Executive |
| 05/2009-10/20009 | CGIAR WorldFish Center Headquarters, Penang, West Malaysia Junior Researcher, CGIAR-Canada Linkage Fund |
| 09/2008-04/2009 | University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE) Researcher, Liberal Democratic Party, Oxford Regional Office, United Kingdom |
| 09/2007-09/2008 | University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE) MSc. in Environmental Geography |
| 09/2004-07/2007 | Singapore and Alola Foundation & Cooperative Cafe Timor (CCT), Timor Leste Research Coordinator, Beyond Social Services |
| 05/2000-08/2004 | National University of Singapore, Department of Sociology and Anthropology BA (Honours) in Sociology, Anglophone literature, and Theatre Studies |
Mitgliedschaften
- International Sociological Association (ISA), Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty Group (SoRU)
- Political Ecology Network (POLLEN)
- The Southern Collective, co-PI (SSRC Transregional Collaboratories on the Indian Ocean)
Auszeichnungen
- Carlo-Schmid Fellowship, UNFCCC, Germany (2015)
- Foundation Fiat Panis Doctoral Fellowship, Germany (2012-2013)
- DAAD Doctoral Fellowship, Germany (2011-2015)
- Wolfson College Field Grant, Oxford, UK (2008)
- Social Change Fellowship, Clark University, USA (2007)
Referierte Publikationen
- Soufi Gemilang/ Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa / Yus Budiyono (2026)
Remembering the ways of itinerant sediment
in: Michaela Büsse, Granular Configurations, Berlin: K. Verlag - Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Rapti (2025)
Tropical cargoscapes: sojourning putridities in the afterlives of medical necrowaste
in: Casper Bruun Jensen (ed.), Southern Anthropocenes, London & New York: Routledge - Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Rapti / Muhammad Soufi Cahya Gemilang (2025)
Buoyant life: floating urbanities adrift in the archipelagic imaginary
in: Enganging Science, Technology, and Society 11 (2), 39-54 - Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Rapti (2024)
Foreword to "Performing memories and weaving archives"
in: Sayan Dey, Performing Memories and Weaving Archives: Creolized Cultures across the Indian Ocean, London: Anthem Press - Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Rapti (2024)
Following currents: oceanic and littoral Sri Lanka
in: Kanchana N. Ruwanpura / Amjad Mohamed Saleem (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Sri Lanka, London & New York: Routledge, 277-287 - Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Rapti / Kelvin E.Y. Low / Noorman Abdullah / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (eds.) (2023)
Coastal urbanities: mobilities, meanings, manoeuvrings
Social Sciences in Asia, Band 42, Leiden: Brill - Simarmata, Hendricus A. / Irina Rafliana / Johannes Herbeck / Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa (2023)
Futuring ‘Nusantara’: detangling Indonesia’s modernist archipelagic imaginaries
in: Stefan Partelow / Maria Hadjimichael / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (eds.), Ocean governance knowledge: systems, policy foundations and thematic analyses, Cham: Springer Nature, 337-363 - Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Rapti / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2023)
Tidal turns: coastal urbanities in Island Southeast Asia
in: Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa / Kelvin E.Y. Low / Noorman Abdullah / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (eds.), Coastal urbanities: mobilities, meanings, manoeuvrings, Leiden: Brill, 1-23 - Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Rapti (2022)
Islanded hauntings: Sri Lanka’s seascape imaginaries and mythico-histories of the Insular
in: Arti Nirmal / Sayan Dey (eds), Histories, Myths and Decolonial Interventions: A Planetary Resistance , London/Delhi: Routledge - Herbeck, Johannes / Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa (2022)
Transformations of urban coastal nature(s): meanings and paradoxes of nature-based solutions for climate adaptation in Southeast Asia
in: Ieva Misiune, Daniel Depellegrin, Lukas Egarter Vigl (eds.), Human-Nature Interactions, Cham: Springer, 61-70 - Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Rapti / Jalaludin Salleh (2022)
Sanded: sedimented pasts and shored futures in ‘outer’ Singapore
in: Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa / Kelvin E.Y. Low / Noorman Abdullah / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (eds.), Coastal Urbanities, Leiden: Brill, 180-201 - Vichitra, Godamunne / Azhar Abdeen / Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa (2022)
Shored curfews: constructions of pandemic islandness in contemporary Sri Lanka
in: Maritime Studies 21, 209-221 - Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Rapti (2021)
Decolonizing seascapes: imaginaries and absences on an island hub
in: Postcolonial Interventions VI(I), 56-101 - Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Rapti / Tilo Schöne / Johannes Herbeck / Julia Illigner / Mahmud Haghighi / Hendricus Simarmata / Emma Porio / Alessio Rovere / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2021)
The ‘wickedness’ of governing land subsidence: Policy perspectives from urban Southeast Asia
in: PLoS ONE 16 (6), article e0250208 - Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Rapti (2020)
Beyond the wall: dyking as an object of everyday governance in the Bay of Manila
in: Marine Policy (112), article 103661 - Hornidge, Anna-Katharina / Johannes Herbeck / Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa / Michael Flitner (2020)
Epistemic mobilities: following sea-level change adaptation practices in Southeast Asian cities
in: American Behavioral Scientist, 64(10), 1497-1511 - Viana, Inés G. / Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa / Demian Willette Demian / Lucy Gillis (2019)
Exploring how non-native seagrass species could provide essential ecosystems services: a perspective on the highly invasive seagrass Halophila stipulacea in the Caribbean Sea
in: Biological Invasions 21, 1461–1472 - Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Rapti (2018)
Fishing, mobility and settlerhood: coastal socialities in postwar Sri Lanka
Cham: Springer - Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Rapti / Irene Sondang Fitrinitia / Johannes Herbeck (2018)
Watery incursions: the securitization of everyday ‘flood cultures’ in Metro Manila and coastal Jakarta
in: International Quarterly for Asian Studies , Vol 49 (1-2), 105-126 - Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Rapti / Anna-Katharina Hornidge (2016)
Putting lifeworlds at sea: studying meaning-making in marine research
in: Frontiers in Marine Science (Online) - Schulz, Karsten / Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa (2016)
The risk frontier: social transformations in rural and peri-urban Ghana
in: Joseph A. Yaro and Jan Hesselberg (eds.), Adaptation to climate change and variability in rural West Africa, Berlin: Springer, 171-189 - Weeratunge Nireka / Christophe Béné C. / Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa et al. (2014)
Small-scale fisheries through the wellbeing lens
in: Fish and Fisheries 15 (2), 255-279
Nicht-referierte Publikationen
- Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Rapti (2025)
Un/fielding the spectral ‘non-site’ in Sri Lanka
in: Dependent 25 (1) (Magazine of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies), 54-56 - Amoo-Adare, Epifania / Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa (eds). (2024)
An anthology of non-conformism: wom!ns words, ways, and wonders
New York: DIO Press - Sridhar Aarthi / Annu Jalais / Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa / Sridhar Anantha (2022)
The Indian Ocean Southern Collective: a collaboratory for postnormal coastal knowledge production
in: Items - Insights from the Social Sciences, New York: Social Science Research Council - Godamunne, Vichitra / Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa (2021)
Between jab lines and pandemic orientalism in urban Sri Lanka
published on medanthucl.com, 16.03.2021 - Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Rapti / Johannes Herbeck (2020)
Futuring ‘Blue Urbanisms’: pluralizing the littoral in urban Southeast Asia
International Sociological Association E-symposium - Nordhaus, Inga / Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa / Lucy G. Gillis et al. (2019)
The Future of mangroves in Penang: bridging science, policy, and perspectives
Leibniz ZMT Policy Brief (1/2019), Bremen: Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research - Perrin, Sam / Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa (2017)
Women in marine science: the efficacy of ecofeminist theory in the wake of historical critique
in: ZMT Working Paper 3/2017, Bremen: Leibniz Center für Tropical Marine Research - Schulz, Karsten / Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa (2015)
Depoliticized and technocratic? Normativity and the politics of transformative adaptation
in: Earth System Governance Working Paper (33) Lund and Amsterdam: Earth System Governance Project - Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Rapti (2014)
War, migration and modernity: the micro-politics of the Hijab in Northeastern Sri Lanka
in: ZEF Working Paper (127) Bonn: Center for Development Research (ZEF) - Siriwardane, Rapti / Sarah Winands (2013)
Between hope and hype: Traditional knowledge(s) held by marginal communities
in: ZEF Working Paper Series (115), Bonn: Center for Development Research (ZEF)