PRR Project

Summary

Rationale for the ICS-ULisboa Strategic Planning : Over the years, ICS-ULisboa has developed a considerable body of intensive ethnographic research in Social Anthropology regarding the intersection between territorial belonging and resistance to the territorial uprooting associated with extractivism. The ERC Advanced Grant COLOUR addressed the nexus plantation-labour-racializations; ICS-ULisboa anthropologists have consistently engaged in  long-term research into the conditions of safeguarding indigenous lands in Brazil, delving into the equation between territorialization and processes of uprooting; and more recently, those issues intersected with studies of climate change and its implications through the lenses of the Anthropocene/plantationoscene perspective. Contemporary challenges to ‘accelerated’ modes of extractivism have also been studied from the perspective of food production and corresponding landscapes of monoculture, as well as from the perspectives of forestry, forms of water management, and the recovery of degraded territories. Field research has already been carried out at ICS-ULisboa on such topics of territoriality in multiple sociocultural contexts, in Portugal and elsewhere.The recruitment  of a Researcher dedicated to these issues will help to maximize the crossover between research registered in the RG ‘Diversities’ and the following Thematic Lines: Inclusion and Vulnerability — specifically in the relation between humans and non-humans (developed by an ongoing ERC Grant), associated with research on ‘Territorialities and Environmental Dynamics’ in the RG Diversities; Sustainability — specifically in the study of climate change and its social impacts.  As the matter of territoriality became a central emerging theme in Social Anthropology, the recruited Researcher will also contribute to research-based teaching in the ICS-ULisboa doctoral programs in Anthropology , Climate Change and Development Studies , as well as in the international postgraduate course starting in 2024-2025 Multiple Lives: new trends in ethnography .  Finally, by focusing on the issues emerging in the society/land relationship in the immediate future, this scholar will also contribute to the ERA Chair on ‘Imagination’ to which ICS-ULisboa is presently applying. Required Scientific Profile : In addition to a demonstrated interest in the topic, the PhD researcher to be recruited should have: a) a PhD in Anthropology; b) a relevant CV in the field of Social Anthropology, with particular emphasis on internationalization (e.g. international collaborations, a repertoire of publications in international journals and or book publications, participation in research networks, experience in project-based research and outreach activities); c) a solid methodological training, namely in carrying out a diverse panoply of fieldwork techniques, including at least two different social contexts and some experience in carrying out fieldwork in rural settings; d) proven experience in initiating innovative, cutting-edge, research strands and topics; e) proven experience in coordinating and teaching post-graduate courses in social anthropology and ethnographic methods; f) a track record in highly competitive funding, both at international and national levels; g) experience in coordinating teams, and supervision of PhD thesis; h) experience in the area of outreach activities.??????? Tasks to be assigned : The Assistant Researcher to be recruited will carry out activities in the field of Social Anthropology.  These activities include a) designing and carrying out research projects for national and international calls; b) coordinating research teams and leading the implementation of projects in research and scientific and technological development; c) conducting training activities in scientific research methods and development in this field, namely through the contribution to the Workshop in Ethnography that integrates RG Diversities ; d) supervising PhD students in ICS-ULisboa, namely in the PhD programs in ICS on Anthropology, Climatic Change and Development Studies; e) proposing outreach interventions and contributing to policy briefs and recommendation reports; f) contributing to academic management at ICS-ULisboa , through the development of research-led teaching.