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PhD Research Project: Protest and urban space in the Mediterranean: Investigating how urban space i

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United Kingdom
Closing date
Dec 23, 2016

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Recent waves of mass rallies such as the Arab Spring and the Occupy movements have highlighted the political significance of specific urban spaces (for examples squares, streets and other hubs of protest), redrawing – sometimes violently – the political geographies of several cities.

Applications are invited to submit PhD proposals that explore the relations between the social dynamics of protest and the material aspects of urban space. The research can have a contemporary or historical focus and some of its objectives can include investigating how urban space is (re)signified, (re)territorialised, and securitised, as well as experienced by residents, in the context of mass protest.

Applicants will have a background in Geography or cognate disciplines, strong political geography research interests and preferably training in social sciences methods and knowledge of socio-material research approaches. They will actively contribute to the School’s political geography element and will join the Human Geography Research Group at Birmingham, which has a large and vibrant cohort of doctoral students, as a member of the Geopolitics and the Carceral subtheme, led by Dr Sara Fregonese (http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/hg/index.aspx#ResearchAreas).

The student will work under Sara Fregonese’s supervision. Sara’s research lies in political and urban geography and studies the interplay between geopolitics, conflict and cities. Her expertise focus is on historical and contemporary conflict and urban life in Lebanon, and on the effects of radicalisation in cities. She is co-author of The radical’s city. Urban environment, polarisation, cohesion (Ashgate 2013). She is currently the PI of CBRL-funded pilot study award How a sectarian territory was made: (re)mapping the Dual Qaimaqamiyya of Mount Lebanon (1842-1860).





 

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