[csaa-forum] Call for applications for post-doc research on Environmental Communication and the Construction of Nature

Fri Jun 26 17:19:17 ACST 2020

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Call for applications for post-doc fellows, for research on 
Environmental Communication and the Construction of Nature

Charles University will make 10 to 12 Post-Doctoral Fellowships 
available, financed through its Post-Doc Stays Fund. Post-Doctoral 
Fellows will be engaged to work on a project taking no longer than 2 
years (24 months) of full-time employment. The scholarship will be 
around 2400 Euro per month.

Scholarships will be awarded for projects in 40 thematic areas, one of 
which is the "Environmental Communication and the Construction of 
Nature", with Nico Carpentier as its supervisor. This particular call is 
for candidates who wish to work within the domain of "Environmental 
Communication and the Construction of Nature" (from a constructionist 
and/or post-structuralist perspective), and who want to submit a 
credible proposal in this thematic area. More information about the 
exact nature of this theme can be found below.

Potential candidates are strongly recommended to consult with the 
supervisor, Nico Carpentier (at nico.carpentier at fsv.cuni.cz), before 
submitting their final application to him.

Time table:
* Deadline for final applications sent to Nico Carpentier: July 21, 2020
* Deadline for these applications to be submitted to the Faculty: July 
22, 2020
* First selection (nomination by the respective Faculties): August 3, 2020
* Second selection (University Committee): September 2020
* Decision by Rector: October 2020
* Position available from (if selected): January 1, 2021

Prerequisites:
* The applicant must be a resident of a country different than the Czech 
Republic
* At the time of submission, the applicant must have received a PhD 
degree and no more than 5 years prior to the application deadline. At 
the time of submission the applicant must have completed Ph.D. studies 
abroad. (*)
* The applicant can not be qualified for an associate professorship 
(habilitation) prior to the application deadline.
(*) for an exception, see https://cuni.cz/UKEN-178.html#12

Required application documents:
(see https://cuni.cz/UKEN-178.html#10 for templates)
* Application Form:
* Letter of Reference (written even by the supervisor in the PhD 
programme or a by a researcher/head of establishment, where the 
applicant completed the doctoral study)
* Scientific CV + List of Publications (max. 2 pages A4 altogether)
* Copy of University Diploma or Provisional certificate of completion of 
PhD studies or another official confirmation, that the applicant has 
been awarded PhD Degree

More information:
* About Post-Doc Stays Fund: https://cuni.cz/UKEN-178.html
* All thematic areas at the Faculty of Social Sciences: 
https://cuni.cz/UKEN-318.html#12
* Nico Carpentier: http://nicocarpentier.net/

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Theme: Environmental Communication and the Construction of Nature
Supervisor: Nico Carpentier
Workplace: Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism (Faculty of 
Social Sciences, Charles University)

Environmental Communication is a growing subfield of Communication and 
Media Studies, with its own academic association (IECA) founded in 2011, 
and a plenitude of academic publications and journals. As climate change 
and environmental issues have forcefully demanded our attention, and 
communication is recognized as being part of both problem and solution, 
there are strong academic and societal needs to further strengthen this 
field, and fill some of the gaps that still trouble it.

This project aims to contribute to the strengthening of Environmental 
Communication by infusing it with the study of what is behind (and 
embedded within) communication, namely the discursive constructions of 
the environment and nature, and the ways that these discursive 
constructions circulate within a diversity of media outlets. Here, we 
have to keep in mind that a multitude of discursive constructions about 
nature exist (ranging from anthropocentric perspectives to so-called 
biocentric perspectives), and that they engage in discursive struggles 
with each other, in other to try to achieve a hegemonic position. These 
discursive constructions also have very material dimensions, as they can 
motivate and legitimate the destruction of natural resources through 
their over-exploitation, or can inspire a variety of activist 
interventions to try to counter this (some of which produce strong 
antagonisms and can thus be highly problematic as well). As the 
human-nature relations are currently being rethought and reconfigured, 
through these discursive struggles, studying how media communicate these 
different discursive constructions about nature is innovative and 
necessary at the same time.

The project will focus on 1/the identification of the discursive 
constructions of nature in the coverage of selected (mainstream and 
alternative) media outlets, 2/the analysis of (the media representation 
of) their discursive struggles, and 3/the role of media in facilitating 
(or disallowing) the communication of these constructions and their 
struggles. As a post-doc project, it will profit from the support of a 
local team of the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism 
(ICSJ), that is involved in (and funded by) the Mistra Environmental 
Communication Research Programme. Through its involvement in this 
research programme, the ICSJ team is already doing research on Swedish 
media (and artistic) representations of the environment and climate 
change, and its enrichment with a multi-country approach will be 
appreciated.

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