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Job: 3 PhD positions for the ERC project "The generative tensions of slavery and colonial heritage tourism"

Wageningen University

The European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant project "FRICTIONS" is a five-year project that seeks to unravel the extent to which tourism transforms the past of slavery and colonial heritage and how the frictions generated in this process are scaled up to provoke shifts in societal narratives. The research is embedded in the Cultural Geography Chair Group chaired by Prof. Edward. Huijbens, and is part of the Centre for Space, Place and Society at the Wageningen University.

They are seeking three (3) highly motivated, innovative and creative PhD candidates to join their team for 4 years as part of the project "FRICTIONS". The candidates should have the necessary academic training, research experience and language skills to respectively conduct one of the subprojects of: 1) Ghana-Suriname-Netherlands; (2) Angola-Brazil-Portugal and; (3) Namibia-Brazil-Germany.

Application deadline: 23 December 2024