Tag Archive for geography

Faculty position in “gender geography,” Seoul National University

04/18/2012 Job No comments

Advertised as a posi­tion in “gen­der geog­ra­phy,” this posi­tion should inter­est fem­i­nist geo­g­ra­phers and gen­der stud­ies schol­ars with geog­ra­phy empha­sis. It is a tenure-track posi­tion at a top uni­ver­sity in Korea. The posi­tion does not require Korean lan­guage pro­fi­ciency since courses would be taught in English, but of course, some Korean would be help­ful in liv­ing in Korea. There’s a vibrant fem­i­nist com­mu­nity at SNU and other uni­ver­si­ties in Seoul, and this could be a great oppor­tu­nity espe­cially for those with research inter­ests in Korea.


Faculty Position at the Department of Geography
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

The Department of Geography, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, invites appli­ca­tions for a full-time pro­fes­sor at all ranks begin­ning September 2012 or March 2013. We seek a per­son with research and teach­ing inter­ests in Gender Geography and related dis­ci­plines. A Ph.D. in Geography or a closely related dis­ci­pline is required at the time of appoint­ment. The suc­cess­ful can­di­date will join the depart­ment that offers degrees at the bachelor’s, master’s and PhD lev­els. In addi­tion, the can­di­date may join the Interdisciplinary Program in Gender Studies, one of the grad­u­ate courses, and may have oppor­tu­nity to do inter­dis­ci­pli­nary gender-related researches with var­i­ous depart­ments sup­ported by the Institute for Gender Research in the University.

Applicants should be Non-Korean Nationals, prefer­ably native English speak­ers. The avail­abil­ity of the posi­tion will be deter­mined by the University, based on the aca­d­e­mic qual­i­fi­ca­tions and expe­ri­ence of the appli­cants. Starting salary ranges approx­i­mately from USD 52,000 at the begin­ning assis­tant pro­fes­sor level and would increase depend­ing on the qual­i­fi­ca­tions and expe­ri­ence. University fac­ulty hous­ing will be avail­able and mov­ing cost will be cov­ered by the University.
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Globalizing Class: Spaces, Places, and Networks of Power, NYU

03/26/2012 CFP No comments

Dissertation Workshop
Call for Papers

Globalizing Class: Spaces, Places, and Networks of Power

Institute for Public Knowledge
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
8 – 9 June 2012

Deadline for Applications: 15 April 2012

This inter­dis­ci­pli­nary dis­ser­ta­tion work­shop is con­cerned with class iden­ti­ties, for­ma­tions, genealo­gies, cul­tures, and power rela­tions in processes of glob­al­iza­tion, past and present. It seeks to glob­al­ize class in three dis­tinct, con­nected ways.

  • We seek to open up spa­tial frames for the study of class, as widely as pos­si­ble, using the term “glob­al­ize” to sig­nal immea­sur­able spa­tial pos­si­bil­i­ties and also to evoke the many con­tested mean­ings of the term “global” that are in cir­cu­la­tion today.
  • We seek to com­pli­cate and spec­ify the spa­tial fram­ing of class, so as to move beyond assump­tions of method­olog­i­cal nation­al­ism, which (mostly invis­i­bly) iden­tify class sta­tus and power with national cul­ture, soci­ety, and polit­i­cal econ­omy. How this might work in prac­tice appears when we con­sider the spa­tial fram­ing of E.P.Thompson’s Making of the English Working Class (Vintage, 1963), which cov­ers a period in his­tory when English class for­ma­tions were trav­el­ling the seas and extend­ing their reach among con­ti­nents. In a mobile spa­tial fram­ing of class, we may also find that cul­tural mean­ings of “class,” in the sense of ”classi­ness,” may require access to transna­tional com­mod­ity chains and par­tic­i­pa­tion in exten­sive class rela­tions, informed by cul­tural cap­i­tal on the move, in the guise of Orientalism, nation­al­ism, or neo-liberalism.
  • We want to ana­lyze the prac­ti­cal work of glob­al­iz­ing classes in expand­ing cap­i­tal­ism, from early days of mer­can­til­ism to the present. Trans-Atlantic, trans-Pacific, and Indian Ocean migra­tions and trans­plan­ta­tions of cap­i­tal and labor move along spe­cific net­works, from place to place, form­ing dis­tinc­tive sites of class relations,inter-connected and inter-dependent, but also imbued with their own cul­tural char­ac­ter. We can use mobile spa­tial lens to fol­low inter­laced migra­tions of cap­i­tal and labor, the trans-national for­ma­tion of mid­dle classes, and the pro­duc­tiv­ity of consumer-class cul­tures amidst the flow of val­ues and com­modi­ties, such as those that define the iconic char­ac­ter por­trayed in The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization (Duke, 2008).

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Gender & Women’s Studies/Feminist Geography, UBC Okanagan

03/20/2012 Job No comments

University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus
Gender and Women’s Studies – Assistant Professor Competition: GWST — 2012

The Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, invites appli­ca­tions for a pro­fes­so­r­ial appoint­ment in Gender and Women’s Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor, tenure-track, to begin July 1st, 2012 or as soon as pos­si­ble there­after. The posi­tion will be held in Community, Culture and Global Studies (http://​www​.ubc​.ca/​o​k​a​n​a​g​a​n​/​c​c​g​s​/​w​e​l​c​o​m​e​.​h​tml) in the Irving K. Barber School of Arts & Sciences (http://​www​.ubc​.ca/​o​k​a​n​a​g​a​n​/​i​k​b​a​r​b​e​r​s​c​h​o​o​l​/​w​e​l​c​o​m​e​.​h​tml).

We are seek­ing to fill a posi­tion in Gender and Women’s Studies with a can­di­date who has a strong back­ground in fem­i­nist geography.

The can­di­date should have an estab­lished research pro­gram grounded by exper­tise in fem­i­nist method­olo­gies. A focus on crit­i­cal race fem­i­nisms, sex­u­al­i­ties, or transna­tional approaches to gen­der would be desir­able. Candidates with a strong com­mit­ment to teach­ing, includ­ing intro­duc­tory Gender and Women’s Studies courses, as well as one or more of the fol­low­ing, would best meet our pro­gram needs: Race, Class, and Sexuality in Feminism, Feminist Research in Social Science, Women in Popular Culture. In addi­tion, the devel­op­ment of courses in fem­i­nism and Human Geography would be expected.

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Participatory Geographies Research Group Away Weekend, York, UK

02/06/2012 FYI No comments

Another non-traditional/creative/intriguing format.

Participatory Geographies Research Group Away Weekend
18 – 21 May 2012
York, UK

For 2012, we have decided to run the ever-popular away week­end, with its mix of aca­d­e­mic study, chill-out time and frisbee-ing, in a more cen­tral location.

We will be based at York Youth Hostel, which is in a quiet loca­tion with large grounds, by the river­bank, a short walk from the city cen­tre and east coast main­line train sta­tion:
http://​www​.yha​.org​.uk/​f​i​n​d​-​a​c​c​o​m​m​o​d​a​t​i​o​n​/​y​o​r​k​s​h​i​r​e​-​w​o​l​d​-​m​o​o​r​s​-​c​o​a​s​t​/​h​o​s​t​e​l​s​/​Y​o​r​k​/​i​n​d​e​x​.​a​spx

Anyone who wants to learn more about par­tic­i­pa­tory geo­gra­phies and meet oth­ers is wel­come to attend. You don’t have to know any­thing already. Please pass on this email, as we would like to encour­age new mem­bers and post­grad­u­ates to come along. A bur­sary scheme to cover the cost of accom­mo­da­tion and din­ner will be avail­able for a num­ber of post­grads and oth­ers who can’t afford to pay for the week­end.
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Lectureship in physical and human geography (two posts), University of Bristol

01/24/2012 Job No comments

This announce­ment caught my eye first because cul­tural geog­ra­phy posi­tions are so rare these days, and also because the job announce­ment itself reflects the dis­ci­pli­nary breadth of geog­ra­phy. Where else would you see “bio­geo­chem­i­cal mod­eller” and “ice sheet mod­eller” next to “con­tem­po­rary cul­tural geog­ra­phy,” all in the School of Geographical Sciences?

Lectureship in Physical and Human Geography (two posts) (ref. 16925)

School of Geographical Sciences

Description

The School of Geographical Sciences seeks to appoint excep­tional indi­vid­u­als to enhance its research and teach­ing. We are par­tic­u­larly seek­ing can­di­dates in the fol­low­ing strate­gic areas (a) Contemporary Cultural Geography, (b) Human-Environment Relations, © Ice sheet mod­el­ling, and (d) Biogeochemical Modelling. We also wel­come out­stand­ing appli­cants from any area of geo­graph­i­cal research.

These new strate­gic appoint­ments build on the huge inter­na­tional suc­cess of the School at both research and schol­ar­ship level. We are the only Geography depart­ment in the UK to be in the top cat­e­gory across every UK gov­ern­ment Research Assessment Exercise that have been under­taken since 1986. The new appoint­ments will fur­ther strengthen these activ­i­ties. We have iden­ti­fied four spe­cific areas which we would like to develop, although we also empha­sis that we will con­sider out­stand­ing appli­cants from any field.

(i) Biogeochemical mod­eller: We seek can­di­dates who extend our capa­bil­i­ties in carbon/biogeochemical mod­el­ling of the ter­res­trial or in under­stand­ing the cir­cu­la­tion of the ocean and its bio­geo­chem­i­cal cycles. Interest in past, present, and future changes in bio­geo­chem­i­cal cycles would be desir­able. (ii) Ice Sheet Modeller: We seek to make an appoint­ment in the dynam­ics of ice flow. Our pref­er­ence is to strengthen exper­tise in the appli­ca­tion of numer­i­cal mod­el­ling tech­niques to glac­i­ers, ice caps and ice sheets. Complimentary areas include the appli­ca­tion of field geo­physics and satel­lite obser­va­tion to the study of ice masses and com­pu­ta­tional fluid dynam­ics. (iii) Contemporary Cultural Geography: We seek inter­na­tion­ally rec­og­nized aca­d­e­mics with a pref­er­ence towards can­di­dates with exper­tise in fields such as embod­i­ment, mate­ri­al­ity, mobil­i­ties, per­for­mance, cul­tural pol­i­tics and/or tech­nol­ogy. (iv) Human-Environment Relations: This post is tar­geted at a scholar with inter­na­tion­ally recog­nised aca­d­e­mic exper­tise in fields such as human-environment rela­tion­ships, polit­i­cal ecol­ogy, envi­ron­men­tal gov­er­nance, envi­ron­men­tal eco­nom­ics, envi­ron­men­tal behav­iour and atti­tudes, and the geo­gra­phies of risk.

It is expected that the final selec­tion process will be held on either 3 or 4 May 2012.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion and to apply, visit the web­site.

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