Logan Cochrane

Funded MA: Education for Sustainable Development

Location: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia Start Date: September 2017 Salary: $12,000/year stipend (with possibility of further scholarship opportunities) THE PROJECT Sustainable Development cannot be achieved through one sector alone, yet education in particular is seen as a vehicle to move us towards this goal. While there is a plethora of literature that examines the […]

Tags: #Education #Environmental Studies #Sustainability #Sustainable development

Postdoc: Migration & the Humanities (Harvard)

The Mahindra Humanities Center invites applications for one-year postdoctoral fellowships in connection with the Center’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seminar on the topic of migration and the humanities. The current refugee crisis in Europe and the Middle East has made it clear that migration plays as critical a role in the moral imagination of the […]

Tags: #Harvard #Human Rights #Humanities #Migration #Refugee Crisis

International Development & Diplomacy Internship Programme

Now in its 19th year, the International Development & Diplomacy Internship Programme (IDDIP) (formerly known as the UNPPP), is honored to be able to continue investing in the future of Canadian global citizens. The United Nations Association in Canada (UNA-Canada) appreciates Canadians want international experience through direct participation in international organizations and agrees that the unique […]

Tags: #Diplomacy #Human Rights #International development #Internship #United Nations

New Publication: Searching for Social Justice in GIScience

Article is available here, from Cartography and Geographic Information Science. Abstract: Maps are explicitly positioned within the realms of power, representation, and epistemology; this article sets out to explore how these ideas are manifest in the academic Geographic Information Science (GIScience) literature. We analyze 10 years of literature (2005–2014) from top tier GIScience journals specific […]

Tags: #Empowerment #GIScience #Marginalization #Power #Social Justice

Post-doc: Religion & Society

The Global Religion Research Initiative (GRRI) of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society (CSRS) at the University of Notre Dame (IN, USA) invites applications for one or two (1-2), two-year sociological postdoctoral residential research fellowships in the study of global religion, starting academic year 2017-2018 (2-3 additional fellowships will be advertised and […]

Tags: #Anthropology #Religion #Society #Sociology

Post-doc: Community-based Research

The Trent Community Research Centre (TCRC) is seeking applications for a 12-month postdoctoral fellow in the practices and techniques of community-based research (CBR). This full-time fellowship contributes to the Community First: Impact of Community Engagement (CFICE) research project and would aim to improve, refine and further develop best practices for the coordination of research projects […]

Tags: #Community-based research #Engagement #Participatory research

Colonial Impact & Legacy

Acemoglu and Robinson, in their widely read Why Nations Fail (2014), have an excellent example of the immediate and long-term legacy impacts of colonialism, which is worth quoting at length (p. 249-250):   The extractive institutions created by the Dutch in the Spice Islands had the desired effects, though, in Banda this was at the […]

Tags: #Colonial legacy #Colonialism #Extractive Institutions #Institutions #Why Nations Fail

Essential Development Studies Books

 1950s: Discourse on Colonialism (1950) Cesaire The Colonizer and the Colonized (1957) Memmi   1960s: The Wretched of the Earth (1961) Fanon False Start in Africa (1962) Dumont Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare (1968) Nkrumah   1970s: Collective Choice and Social Welfare (1970) Sen Class Struggle in Africa (1970) Nkrumah Rules for Radicals (1971) Alinsky A […]

Tags: #Books #Development Studies #Essential reads #International development #international development studies

EWB Fellowships

Now in its 15th year, the EWB Fellows Program exists to develop a cadre of Systems Change Leaders by equipping them with the opportunities, competencies and skills needed to build a more thriving and sustainable world. Every year we recruit 25-30 outstanding people for the 12-month Fellowship,placing successful candidates in one of our founding-stage Ventures, […]

In-residence Fellowship (Bulgaria)

CAS Sofia is an independent Institute with international and multidisciplinary profile. Located in Sofia, Bulgaria, it promotes high-level scholarship in the social sciences and the humanities. In addition to supporting focus-group research, CAS Sofia invites outstanding scholars to pursue their individual research projects during in-residence periods of up to five months. The invited Fellows participate […]

Tags: #Fellowship #Humanities #Mutlidisciplinary #Social science