Two graduate student positions (1 PhD; 1 MA) are available beginning in September 2017 to assist with the project Developing Conformity: Foreign Aid and the Diffusion of Global Norms in the Department of Sociology at Memorial University, St. John’s, NL, Canada (http://www.mun.ca/soc/). Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), this […]
Tags: #Conformity #Foreign Aid #Global Norms #International development #international development studies
10 Fully Funded PhD Programmes 2017 at Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies Funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments, the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies will admit up to ten new students to its next doctoral programme, which begins on *1 October 2017*. The formal prerequisite for application […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Ethnography #Islam #Muslim Culture #Sociology
The National Anthropological Archives (NAA) at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Department of Anthropology is offering a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship that focuses on research with the NAA to establish methods, standards, and criteria for enhancing the discoverability of cultural anthropology data and materials within its holdings. Candidates should hold (or have […]
Tags: #Anthropology #Archives #Ethnography #History #Research Methods
Place is not just the surface upon which life happens, but an ongoing state created by process and relations (Massey 1994, 2005; Rose 1993); places are practices (Dehyle 2009). In Indigenous studies, Land refers not only to soil, but to water, air, animals, and most importantly, the relations between them, as Land constitutes the life […]
Tags: #Action Research #Anthropology #Indigenous studies #Interdisciplinary Studies #Place-based knowledge
Robert Chambers states that “As a dimension of poverty, seasonality is as glaringly obvious as it is still grossly neglected. Attempts to embed its recognition in professional mindsets, policy and practices have still a long way to go” (Chambers, 2012: xv; in the Forward of Devereux, Sabates-Wheeler and Longhurst, 2012). This quote comes from an […]
Tags: #Agriculture #Food Security #Livelihoods #Rural Development #Seasonality
Michigan Technological University / NSF PIRE Supported Post-Doctoral Position in Bioenergy Development and Sustainability Position Summary: The Department of Social Sciences at Michigan Technological University invites applications for a one-and-a-half year Post–Doctoral Fellowship, beginning on or about January 1, 2017, focused on the socioecological impacts of sustainable bioenergy development across the Americas. The position is funded […]
Tags: #Bioenergy #Ecosystems #Interdisciplinary #Socioecological #Sustainability