PhD funding Available for “Mobility and Sociality in Africa’s Emerging Urban”
Three ARUA/Mellon funded PhD positions available
and effective immediately at the University of Cape Town on the theme “Mobility and Sociality in
Africa’s Emerging Urban”
Project Description
The African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) is
seeking post-doctoral fellows to join a five year research programme entitled
‘Mobility and Sociality in Africa’s Emerging Urban.’ This initiative is a
scholarly response to unprecedented levels of urbanisation and mobility driven
by conflict, ambition, and respatialising economies. It is intended to develop
African-based contributions to theories of human mobility and transforming modes
of social engagement, authority, representation and expression. This initiative
brings together five African Universities dedicated to cultivating a generation
of African scholars who can reshape global social theory and scholarly
conversations on mobility, cities and social change. It promises to open new
scholarly frontiers and enhance the quality of pedagogy and partnerships while
positively transforming the continent’s universities. The initiative is
dedicated to fostering interdisciplinarity, engagement with the arts, and
creative research and outreach methodologies.
PhD
proposals are invited for recent social science and humanities MA graduates
dedicated to answering one or more of the following questions:
What
new forms of moral authority operate in rapidly urbanising contexts? What are
the forms of alternative authority that emerge in contexts where the State is
largely absent?
How
are these changing people’s imagination of traditional hierarchies of age
gender and family structure? How are these connected to new notions of morality
rooted in age gender and social obligation?
How
are changing forms of violence legitimated? What becomes visible as violence
and what is eclipsed?
How
does widespread translocalism and ongoing mobility reshape urban morphologies
and residential patterns; social interactions; subjective understanding of
citizenship; representation and civic identity: what is political society in
spaces only loosely structured by states and formal markets?
What
cultural practices are being reshaped and reconceptualised by mobile urban
residents? What are the practical enacted ethics that enable people to make
sense of varied diversities and to communicate and exchange across social
divisions? How do people make sense of difference without shared histories or
the disciplining institutions of common states, religion, or markets?
Interested
candidates are should contact:
Professor
Francis Nyamnjoh
Francis.nyamnjoh@uct.ac.za
nyamnjoh@gmail.com
Anthropology Section
University of Cape Town
5.23 AC Jordan Building
Private Bag X3
Rondebosch 7701
Cape Town
South Africa
Tel: +27 21 650 3681
Cell: +27 761200740
Fax: +27 21 650 2307
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Howard College Staff
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Howard College Students
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Edgewood Staff
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EdgWood Students
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PMB Students
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Westville Staff
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