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Call for Applications
Theme: Solidarities
Subtitle: Politics and Ethics in a Global Age
Type: Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Institution: Graduate Center, City University of New York
Location: New York, NY (USA)
Deadline: 15.6.2011
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The Committee on Globalization and Social Change Postdoctoral Search
2011-2012
The Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the CUNY Graduate
Center is pleased to announce a postdoctoral fellowship search for
the academic year 2011-2012. Applications are invited from scholars
whose research coincides with our theme for the year, "Solidarities:
Politics and Ethics in a Global Age."
The CGSC is an interdisciplinary working group of CUNY faculty
committed to exploring the relationships among recent socioeconomic
transformations associated with "globalization," the political
possibilities opened or obstructed by those transformations, and the
intellectual frameworks through which to grasp these developments and
relations. Doing so requires that we revisit inherited analytic
categories and explanatory frameworks from the standpoint of these
new historical conditions. One such category is solidarity.
Research foci might be organized around (but are not limited to) the
following questions: Now that the institutions and ideologies
underpinning those traditions have been dismantled, does the category
"solidarity" retain descriptive power or critical purchase? What
might the relevant units or scale of solidarity today? Conversely,
can a renewed conception of solidarity help us to grasp certain
aspects of the contemporary situation? Do we need to conceptualize
new forms or practices of (global) solidarity as part of a (global)
political project that might be adequate to our current challenges?
Can solidarity allow us to think creatively about coming together
within or across social formations that transcends the limitations of
inherited oppositions between universality and particularity, unity
and fragmentation, general standards or shared norms and relativism?
Could a concept or politics of solidarity point toward new ways of
reconciling democracy and plurality? If so, what are the ethical
implications of a renewed conception of solidarity in an age of
global circulation and interdependence? Solidarity might also signal
long-distance support for multiple struggles in different places.
Does "globalization" require and enable, or perhaps foreclose, new
types of networked linkages as well as the technical, organizational,
and imaginative resources for pursuing them? How does the global
visibility of citizens actions, most recently in the Arab world,
inform the terms of politics solidarity?
In addition to conducting their own research, Fellows will be
expected to attend and contribute to the weekly seminar of the
Committee and support other initiatives of the Committee, such as the
promotion of conferences, guest lectures and symposia. Postdoctoral
awards are residential and normally run for the academic year
September-May. In addition to the stipend and a research space,
Fellows have access to all CUNY research facilities.
General Duties
Performs research in area(s) of expertise. Shares responsibility for
committee assignments, performing administrative, supervisory, and
other functions as may be assigned. There is no teaching requirement
for this fellowship.
Minimum Qualifications
Ph.D. degree in area(s) of expertise. Also recommended are the
ability to teach successfully, interest in productive scholarship or
creative achievement, and ability to cooperate with others for the
good of the institution.
Preferred Qualifications
To be eligible, candidates should have their doctoral dissertations in
hand and must have completed their dissertations within five years of
taking up the Fellowship. Individuals who are not already in tenure
track positions should especially apply.
Salary Range: $55,017
How to apply:
To apply, please send six copies of the following COLLATED:
1) A 500 word letter of interest in relation to the activities of the
Globalization Committee
2) A 1000 word personal research plan
3) Your curriculum vitae
4) One copy of a representative article or dissertation chapter
5) Three letters of recommendation (can be sent separately or with
your application) to:
Postdoctoral Search Committee
The Committee on Globalization and Social Change
The Graduate Center, Room 5109
The City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY 10016
Please send hard copies; in addition, please e-mail applications to:
[email protected]
REVIEW OF APPLICATIONS WILL BEGIN ON MAY 23rd; final selection will be
made by the end of June 2011.
Further information on the work of the Committee and the theme for
next year can be found on the committee website:
http://globalization.gc.cuny.edu
Contact:
Padmini Biswas, Ph.D., Assistant Director
The Center for Place, Culture and Politics &
The Mellon Interdisciplinary Committees
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
USA
Tel: +1 212 8171880
Fax: +1 212 8171644
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://globalization.gc.cuny.edu
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