Dr. Philip Gooding (IOWC, McGill) is joined by Dr. Lukas Ley and Tarini Monga (both Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) to discuss the research group, "S.AND - The Future of Coastal Cities in the Indian Ocean." Their conversation covers the shifting roles of sand in human environments, with particular attention to their current fieldwork in the port of Marseille and peri-urban Goa, respectively.

Lukas Ley is Research Head of the S.AND research group. He holds PhD in Anthropology from the University of Toronto and his first monograph, Building on Borrowed Time: Raising Seas and Failing Infrastructure, was published in 2021.

Tarini Monga is a PhD candidate in the S.AND research group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

Links:

S.AND project website: https://www.s-and.org/

Dr. Ley's profile: https://www.eth.mpg.de/ley

Ms. Monga's profile: https://www.eth.mpg.de/monga

The Indian Ocean World Podcast is hosted by Dr. Philip Gooding, produced and edited by Sam Gleave Riemann, and published under the SSHRC-funded Partnership "Appraising Risk, Past and Present."

Music:

"Nam Nhi-tu" by M. Nguyen Van Minh-Con

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