Fw: H-ASIA: PhD Fellowship - Confinement & Violence in India, Univ. of Copenhagen

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Subject: H-ASIA: PhD Fellowship - Confinement & Violence in India, Univ. of
Copenhagen

> H-ASIA
> April 5, 2011
>
> PhD Fellowship Confinement and Violence in India, University of
> Copenhagen
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> From: Ravinder Kaur <rkaur@hum.ku.dk>
>
>
> PhD Scholarship
>
> Confinement and Violence in India
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>
>
> The Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (ToRS), the Faculty
> of
> Humanities, University of Copenhagen and the Rehabilitation and Research
> Centre for Torture Victims (RCT) are seeking a highly qualified candidate
> for a jointly funded PhD project on forms, modes, experiences and
> economies
> of confinement with a particular orientation towards prisons and/or urban
> neighbourhoods. While torture, violence and abuse of human rights in
> prisons
> and urban neighbourhoods has been the subject of scholarly explorations,
> the
> functional similarities between urban slums and places of detention have
> received scant attention. The project should broadly speak to themes of
> confinement, violence and reform in the Indian context. The more specific
> focus of the project will be developed by the successful candidate in
> collaboration with ToRS and RCT.
>
>
>
> Qualifications: you will have a relevant academic background, an
> ethnographic orientation and an ability to work in a transdisciplinary
> manner. Prior knowledge of India and linguistic competences would be an
> advantage but not a pre-requisite.
>
>
>
> Institutional set-up
>
>
>
> The successful candidate would be affiliated to both ToRS and the RCT. At
> ToRS the candidate would be located at the Centre of Global South Asian
> Studies., and at RCT the candidate will be an integral part of RCT's
> Confinement Programme.
>
>
>
> For further information contact Dr. Ravinder Kaur rkaur@hum.ku.dk and Dr.
> Andrew Jefferson amj@rct.dk
>
>
>
> Expected start: September 1st 2011
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>
>
> How to apply: Follow this link
>
> http://www.humanities.ku.dk/research/PhD/Announcements/
>
> Ravinder Kaur
> University of Copenhagen
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