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Tiba Ponnuthurai

Tiba Ponnuthurai

  • Stipendiatin UZH Candoc Grant
Room number
AFL-G-260

Research Interests

  • Climate urbanism
  • (climate) gentrification and displacement processes
  • disaster capitalism
  • postcolonial thought
  • poststructuralist and queerfeminist theories
  • heterodox economics
  • anthropology of policy and situated climate governance

Profile

Education

Since Feb 2025

PhD-Candidate at ISEK - Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies.

Thesis: Socio-Cultural Dimensions of Climate Governance in Sri Lanka
Principal Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Moritz Ege
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Nishara Fernando

Sep. 2021–Sep. 2022:

MA Sociology, Cultural Analysis at University of London, Goldsmiths
First Class Honours Degree

Thesis: The Claim of Social Mixing in the Zürich Context. A Theoretical Investigation. 'Social Housing Policy', 'Ghettoisation', 'Racism'.
Principal Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Masha Rosengarten

2016–2021:

BA Philosophy and Popular Culture Studies University of Zurich
Magna Cum Laude

Thesis: Key Concepts in Gilles Deleuze's Différence et Répétition. An Attempt at a Political Reading.
Principal Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jürg Berthold

Grants

July 2025: University of Zurich, Candoc Research Grant Nr. FK-25-073, 130'000 CHF