The Department of Anthropology from the University of the Western Cape is offering a post-doc position for 18 months with a thematic focus on social justice, environmental politics and socio-ecological transformation, as part of the research project Transforming environmental governance in the Anthropocene: an action research in the field of Access and Benefit-Sharing.
The TEGA project was launched in July 2024 by an international team of scholars from several disciplines and research institutions (University of the Western Cape; University of Namibia; University of Bonn; Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research). Together with actors directly concerned by the Access and Benefit-Sharing regime put in place under the Nagoya Protocol of 2010 (e.g. policy makers, companies, community leaders, NGOs), our team combines social theory and empirical research with the agency of non-academic actors to:
- deepen our understanding of the limits and deficiencies of the ABS regime,
- elaborate and enact strategies to induce actual transformative change, and
- produce and disseminate theoretical, methodological, as well as practical knowledge derived from this real-life experiment.
Candidates with qualification and experience in the abovementioned fields are invited to apply for the post-doctoral research fellowship.
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