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PhD Opportunity: Formation of Urbanity
The Institute of Social Anthropology and the interdisciplinary program in Urban and Landscape Studies at the University of Basel are offering two PhD positions for the SNF-funded research project Making the City: Agency, Urbanity and Urbanisation in Ordinary Cities (2016–2019)The project will explore the formation of urbanity by comparing respective processes in four cities of […]
PhD Resource Extraction and Sustainable Arctic Communities (Sweden)
This PhD project will address mining in the Arctic from a historical perspective. Potential areas of study include amongst others the development of mining governance across different regions of the Arctic, the development of environmental management in relation to resource extraction, relations between mining companies and indigenous peoples, concepts of social license and corporate social […]
Tags: #Corporate Social Responsibility #Governance #Resource extraction #Sustainability #Sustainable Arctic Communities
Moral History of the 20th Century
Jonathan Glovers’ (1999) Humanity: A Moral History of the 20th Century explores why atrocities occurred – from World War I to the Rwandan genocide – and insight on how we can learn from this history to prevent similar events from occurring again. This “thought provoker” post presents a limited selection of those insights; those interested […]
Tags: #Ethics #Morality #Nietzsche #Prisoner's dilemma #Tribalism
IDRC Doctoral Research Awards
Duration: 3-12 months Budget: Approximately 20 grants of a maximum of CA$20,000 each Deadline: May 18, 2016 by 16:00 (04:00 PM) (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US and Canada) Scope: IDRC Doctoral Research Awards are intended to promote the growth of Canadian and developing country capacity in research to improve the lives of people in the developing […]
Tags: #Doctoral Award #Field Research Funding #IDRC #International development #International Development Research Centre #Research Award #Research Grants
On “peasants” and GMOs
Hardt and Negri’s “Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire” (2004) is a work of political philosophy, and specifically a book about democracy (presented here). Some points raised in the book offer interesting food for thought, potentially of use in the classroom, or for contrasting different opinions, for example: On the “peasant”: “It makes […]
Tags: #Democracy #Frankenfoods #Genetically modified organisms #GMOs #Peasant
PhD: International Environmental Politics (2 positions)
The successful candidate will complete a doctoral dissertation in the framework of the project “Regional Orders in International Environmental Politics (REORIENT)” financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). The project examines the proliferation of regional environmental agreements, with a special focus on situations where countries are subject to multiple, overlapping agreements (pluri-regionality). It investigates […]
Tags: #Environmental Politics #International environmental agreements #International Politics #PhD #Pluri-regionality
About me
Logan Cochrane
Logan is a Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last twenty years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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