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[Commlist] Vacancy PhD bursary - ethnography of ecomedia in Kenya

Wed Nov 02 11:55:15 GMT 2022





We're looking for a PhD candidate to pursue PhD research on Ecomedia in urban Kenya: plotting climate change and shaping climate action


Supervisory team: main supervisor: Katrien Pype (anthropology, KU Leuven) ; Co-supervisor: Cajetan Iheka (international relations, Yale university)


AIM: to gain knowledge about how media practitioners in urban Kenya plot climate change

Objective 1: Document the various climate change narratives produced by social media influencers, radio and television broadcasters, and humanitarian and NGO media in urban Kenya;

Objective 2: Document the various climate change aesthetics in these local media texts, and arrive at an understanding of how urgency is produced by visual, acoustic, and digital means;

Objective 3: Document the various eco-technologies that these media profess as having consequences on the environment (ranging from being beneficial to the environment to being detrimental);

Objective 4: Analyse and compare how electronic and digital media shape urban Kenya's awareness of climate change and their actions.


Expected results: Detailed knowledge about media expertise, media aesthetics, and popular media as persuasive tools in climate change action in urban Kenya to be presented in a PhD thesis and in policy brief


Planned secondment: C.N.C.D.-11.11.11. - Brussels, Head of Advocacy - Climate Matters:

Supervisor: Nicolas Van Nuffel

Duration: 3 months

Aims: To gain experience in lobbying on a national and international level; to learn how to bring together stakeholders and interpret and translate their desires; to dialogue with national media; to learn how to transfer micro-cases to policy-oriented proposals; to gain familiarity with key social entrepreneurs in the Global South; to gain experience in teamwork in an intercultural environment ; to learn how to communicate towards different publics (policy groups; stakeholders);

The doctoral student will be enrolled in the PhD program at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven.

?Deadline is December 31 2022. More information on the project and how to apply can be found here<https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60168237?hl=en&lang=en>.

This project is embedded in a wider consortium, in which 12 PhD projects will be coordinated on the notion of "climate urgency". An overview of the consortium and the various PhD projects can be found here<https://soc.kuleuven.be/anthropology/technology-and-society/mscdn-climate-urgency>. Within the next weeks, the other vacancies will be put on line as well.

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