[ecrea] PhD studentship on "Imagining Peace"

My new institution, Leeds Trinity University, is funding a PhD 
studentship for me on the topic of ‘Imagining Peace’.

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‘Imagine peace’ is the only content in a one-page ad placed each year in 
the New York Times by the Yoko Ono foundation. The starkness and 
emptiness of the ad indicates crucial questions for the study of the 
mostly frustrated search for peace. How can the political imagination of 
peace be understood not only as idealisation of the future but also as 
the concrete practice of peace activists in the present? How have social 
media impacted the ways in which peace activism is communicated within 
movements and between them and their publics?  Does peace activism 
matter even when it does not achieve its ostensible goals? How can the 
relatively undeveloped concept of peace in political theory be imagined 
more fully in conjunction with the notions of peace that prevail in 
Peace Studies? Under the principal supervision of *Dr Jon Simons 
(*(j.simons /at/ leedstrinity.ac.uk) <mailto:(j.simons /at/ leedstrinity.ac.uk)>*) *, 
this PhD will explore the imagination of peace in one or more of four 
fields: (1) the materialization of images of peace in cultural political 
activism; (2) the mediation of images of peace in online activism; (3) 
the non-instrumental significance of peace activism; (4) the political 
theory of peace.

Please pass on to any current or past students who might be interested.

Application details are at: 
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AYQ711/7-full-time-funded-phd-studentships/ 
(There are also topics for studentships with other researchers at Leeds 
Trinity).

Jon Simons


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