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

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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