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ERC Synergy Grant: ‘Cosmological Visionaries: Shamans, Scientists, and Climate Change at the Ethnic Borderlands of China and Russia’ (COSMOVIS); Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

Call for Applications: POSTDOCTORAL POSITION, fulltime (1,0 FTE)

THE INSTITUTION

The Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague, Czech Republic), invites applications for a fully funded postdoctoral position. The general aim of the Department of Ecological Anthropology, where the project is based, is to foster and produce world-leading and ethnographically grounded research on human experience, practices, and communities, all of which are inextricably a part of more-than-human lives and worlds.

PROJECT





Cosmological Visionaries is a 6-year project funded by the European Research Council Synergy Grant scheme (grant agreement number 856543, acronym COSMOVIS). It is comprised of two synergistically mirrored teams, the China Team led by Katherine Swancutt, Project Lead and Principal Investigator at the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, and the Russia Team led by Olga Ulturgasheva, Principal Investigator at the University of Manchester. The project was launched in September 2020, and the researcher will join in its final phase, contributing to its research and research outputs as a member of the China Team. You can find more information about the project here.

POSITION

Under the supervision of Dr Katherine Swancutt and alongside members of the team, the researcher will conduct qualitative research and fieldwork focusing on the relationships between Indigeneity, local and transnational approaches to environmental science, and climate change in Southwest China. The researcher will work as part of a res

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