Phd Position in Erc Research Project Respire
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PhD position within ERC-funded project RESPIRE to study intersectional power dynamics and socio-environmental in/justice through planetary breathing and suffocation.
**Your job**:
The PhD position is a part of a research project RESPIRE: Planetary Breathing in Asphyxiating Times lead by Dr. Magdalena Górska and funded by the European Research Council. Your position will be fully funded for the duration of full time PhD studies (1 FTE) over 48 months.
The RESPIRE project focuses on how planet Earth breathes and suffocates at the current socio-political-environmental conjuncture. Breathing and suffocation are understood not as metaphors but as material processes of contemporary multispecies living and dying on this planet_._ RESPIRE explores their political dimensions by examining how power relations, climate change, and socio-environmental injustices are interconnected through the practice of planetary breathing. By addressing "planetary lungs" such as forests, oceans, and soil, RESPIRE investigates the crises of deforestation, oceanic dead zones, and peatland destruction as forms of multispecies breathing and suffocation. The multispecies approach mobilized in the project combines feminist posthumanist, decolonial, and abolitionist perspectives that enable to engage planetary breathing as a socio-environmental processes that are deeply embedded in geopolitical inequalities, colonial legacies and current (extractivist)colonialism, disparate impacts of climate change, and intersectional social inequalities that shape environmental and social in/justices.
The PhD position will entail both independent and collaborative work. Your independent work will be guided by your two supervisors Dr. Magdalena Górska and Prof. dr. Kathrin Thiele who will accompany you in your research and writing process, offer advice, and provide feedback. Your tasks will include:
Dissertation - you will have freedom to craft your own PhD project according to your specific research interests while the project also must address questions of planetary multispecies respiration and asphyxiation in relation to the fieldwork research site located in the Venetian lagoon in Italy, Bargerveen peatland reserve in the Netherlands, and Katrineholm forest in Sweden. These locations were selected for RESPIRE with specific criteria in mind: they are sites of specific breathing and suffocation (dead-zone, deforestation, peatland restoration - all with their not only environmental but also socio-political, local and geopolitical dimensions) and they are located in Western Europe. While it might be tempting to investigate planetary respiration by conducting research at sites across the globe, the project will be carried out in Europe to limit RESPIRE’s carbon footprint (as the project is located in Utrecht, the Netherlands). In the context of decolonial criticism of West-centrism of academia Western Europe serves in the project as a case study for a planetary, yet site-specific, situated, non-universalist, analysis which works critically with Europe’s inner socio-environmental differentiations and global geopolitical positioning. As part of the project, the team members (you, a Postdoc, and Magdalena Górska) will develop a respiratory socio-environmental approaches embedded in a critical attention to the local, national, and geopolitical dimensions of power relations at the research locations and work with decolonial and abolitionist criticism and interventions towards Europe itself. In examining situated planetary breathing, you will focus not only on human but also on more-than-human relations and multispecies assemblages that constitute planetary breathing. These are the frameworks in which you will work on your PhD research while you will have a freedom to develop the project through your own unique perspective.
You will write two articles that focus specifically on your research.
You will be a part of the RESPIRE research team that consists of you, a Postdoc, and Magdalena Górska. The teamwork will include yearly fieldwork visits (three months of fieldwork per year during years 1-3 of your PhD), knowledge exchange visits, co-creating a lecture collection from the RESPIRATORIUM lecture series, co-organising a summer school, and participating in a PhD writing seminar.
While this position entails specific framing because it is a part of a larger project, it is crucial that you embrace your own specific expertise and research interests. You will develop your own critical respiratory perspective, thinking, and researching practice while you will also benefit from a team in which we will collectively engage with relevant knowledges and social and environmental problems.
**Your qualities**:
- a Master’s degree in a relevant scientific discipline in the Humanities or Social Sciences, such as Gender Studies, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Decolonial Studies, Critical Race Studies, Posthumanities, Environmental Humanities, Femi
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