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Organization: University of Tromsø, Department of Archaeology and Social Anthropology

Location: Tromsø, Norway

Field: Social anthropology

Requirements:

The position is not restricted to any ethnographic region. The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong academic background in anthropology, an innovative research proposal, and the necessary background skills (i.e. languages; previous fieldwork) to complete the project. The research proposal will have to be of sufficient quality to allow the candidate to enter the PhD programme. Most current scholarship holders at the department focus on the northern region. Projects addressing the global ‘south’ or north-south comparisons will be welcome, and other qualifications being equal, priority will be given to a candidate who can build on or expand the scholarly research and networks already represented in the group.

Abstract:

The research fellow position is within the Department for Archeology and Social Anthropology (IAS), University of Tromsø, and will be part of the newly established research group for Comparative Indigeneity (komparativ urfolksforskning, KURF).

Description:

The research fellow position is within the Department for Archeology and Social Anthropology (IAS), University of Tromsø, and will be part of the newly established research group for Comparative Indigeneity (komparativ urfolksforskning, KURF). The research group provides a forum for the sharing of research results and exchanging ideas. The theme 'comparative indigeneity' is defined broadly, and encourages critical engagement with the term and with comparison across post-colonial domains and across national borders. The members of the research group lecture on indigenous issues at the masters level, develop research project proposals, organise a regular research seminar as well as occasional symposia and PhD courses. The group is described in more detail at uit.no/hsl/kurf
 
The theme for the fellowship is ‘indigeneity across boundaries’. We would ask the candidate to reflect on the paradox that while indigeneity is most often defined as a radical 'rootedness' in a particular place and with a particular group of people, the category of indigenous peoples has become one of the most influential cross-cultural identifiers in the world today. The indigenous condition has led to the creation of a transnational civil society, extensive global networking, and a new international definition of ‘rights’ in the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. This PhD fellowship is for a candidate who will study the phenomena ethnographically. Possible projects approaches are – but not limited to - studying the symbolic and phenomenological aspect of 'boundaries' in general; focusing on how arbitrary boundaries positively or negatively affect the fates of indigenous people within or without those boundaries; understanding how the relational quality of boundaries define both the person as well as social imagineries; comparing the career of the term indigeneity across a North-South axis in one or more sites; or specifying how boundaries hold a double-edged quality that often fragments solidarity while creating new hierarchies.

Deadline: 01-04-2011

Contacts:

Link: http://www.jobbnorge.no/job.aspx?jobid=72285

Email: David.Anderson@uit.no

Email: Sidsel.Saugestad@uit.no

Email: Mayvi.Johansen@uit.no

Phone number: +4777644398

Phone number: +4777645445

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