[Commlist] Call for candidates for PhD position in Environmental responsibility and sustainable development

The University of Stavanger invites applicants for a PhD Fellowship in
Environmental responsibility and sustainable development at the Faculty of
Social Sciences, Department of media- and social sciences. The appointmentis
for three years with research duties exclusively, or four years with both
research and 25% compulsory duties. The hired candidate will be admitted to
the PhD program in Social Science. we especially welcome projects
investigating discursive dimensions through any form of discourse analysis.

Application deadline is set to the 8th of June, 2022.

See full advertisment, requirements and information regarding 
application at:
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/210842/phd-fellow-in-environmental-responsibility-and-sustainable-development
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Research topic
Policies directed towards sustainability, climate change, and environmental
issues are controversial. Environmental policies have been challenged 
and met
with resistance from different groups in society. These conflicts play out
through political discourses, discourses that can be linked to various
identities, relations, and arguments that encourage – or resist–
transitions towards sustainability, whether it concerns onshore wind power,
toll roads, interconnectors, oil policy or other policies directed towards
sustainable development. The research project raises the question how local
resistance in a Scandinavian context and in various settings challenge
perceptions of sustainability transitions, and how interpretations of global
challenges result in different implications for the local community.

The relationship between the global, regional and local has proven 
central in
contemporary populist and nationalist mobilisations for and against
sustainability transitions. Different interpretations of what sustainability
transitions entail explain parts of this. But there are populist 
factions who
reject that climate and environment constitute real challenges. At the same
time, we have seen the emergence of so-called green populism with the
potential to mobilise broad support for sustainability transitions 
connecting
the interrelated climate and biodiversity crises (e.g., Greta Thunberg and
Extinction Rebellion).

While the research design, methods of data gathering and analysis may be
chosen by the applicant, we especially welcome projects investigating
discursive dimensions through any form of discourse analysis. With a 
point of
departure in the field sketched above, the research project will focus onone
or more of the following subtopics:

Political frontiers in sustainability politics: How do various parties,
movements, and figures challenge perceptions of sustainability transitions?
To what extent are political frontiers drawn and redrawn? What are the
implications of this for sustainable transitions?

	Discursive strategies and policy processes: Which discursive strategies are
used by whom, when and where to impact on transition politics, sustainable
development, and environmental responsibilities?

	Local resistance to global solutions: To what extent are perceptions of
sustainability transitions and environmental responsibilities challenged by
local resistance, and to what extent can this resistance still be seen as a
contribution to sustainability transitions?

	Climate change and/or sustainable development discourses: To what 
extent are
apocalyptic and utopian narratives used in the battles for defining
sustainability transitions? How can apocalyptic narratives thrive alongside
utopian ones? Which discourses are most prominent; whose discourses are 
they;
and how do they relate to sustainable development?



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