Qualification Type: | PhD |
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Location: | Bristol |
Funding for: | UK Students, EU Students, International Students |
Funding amount: | Maintenance stipend in line with UKRI (£18,622 in 2023/24) |
Hours: | Full Time |
Placed On: | 28th February 2024 |
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Closes: | 3rd June 2024 |
The Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Bristol is recruiting a Doctoral Fellow for the INFRACURSIONS Project that develops a comparative study of ‘incursion economies’ defined as deregulated economies that invade the global frontiers and result in environmental destruction. The study will focus on the informal infrastructures built around clandestine land grabbing, illegal logging, and prospector mining in Amazon frontiers. The project gathers data using interdisciplinary methodologies.
The doctoral fellow will form part of the INFRACURSIONS research team with a specific focus on ethnographic research within local institutions (such as logger syndicates, landholder or squatter associations, mining cooperatives or federations for extractivist rights) that deal with bureaucratic and legal procedures in realtion to small-scale extraction on a regular basis. The doctoral fellow will undertake a period of fieldwork in a relevant site in lowland South America, as well as undertake policy research in their region of research.
Consider applying if:
How to apply:
Please make an online application for this project at http://www.bris.ac.uk/pg-howtoapply. Please select Anthropology and Archaeology PhD on the Programme Choice page, September 2024 as the start date and full-time as the mode of attendance. In the Fee Information section, please state that you are applying for PhD studentship in Incursion Economies.
Deadline: Monday 3rd June.
Required application document details found here: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/arts/postgraduate/documents/funding-adverts/Infracursions%20PhD%20Further%20Information%20V2.pdf
Funding:
The successful candidate will be supported for 4 years full-time, which will include:
Contacts:
For questions about this vacancy, please contact Dr Amy Penfield: amy.penfield@bristol.ac.uk, quoting “PhD INFRACURSIONS” in the subject line.
For questions about the application process, please contact the Faculty of Arts Postgraduate Research Admissions Office: artf-gradschool-admissions@bristol.ac.uk.
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