The University of the Western Cape, in greater Cape Town, South Africa, is
offering full-time MA and PhD scholarships from 2008 in the new 'Cities in
Transformation' research project. The initiative is being hosted in the
Faculty of Arts. Research on multilingual citizenship will be a close
companion field of inter-disciplinary inquiry. The Centre for Humanities
Research, with which the Cities initiative will be affiliated, is home,
among others, to a vigorous postgraduate programme rethinking study of the
humanities in Africa.
We are keen to receive proposals from talented humanities, social sciences
and cultural studies scholars who are interested in exploring issues related
to the making and refashioning of cities, not least from the perspective of
the global south. The emphasis is not on conventional engineering, policy
and planning practises, but on the inscriptions, meaning-making and other
recursive impacts of everyday actions and readings by a variety of actors.
These include the diversity of citizens and visitors engaged in consumption
and production activities such as work, play, learning, travel, protest,
activism, survival, and in discourses such as writing, reporting, filming,
naming & coding.
We are also open to proposals about unusual institutional interventions in
urban settings, including work on universities as pulses of urban change.
We seek inquisitive scholars who will embrace, be excited by and help
construct new cross-disciplinary urban literatures, and who can pose hard
questions and use invigorating and robust research methodologies.
Inquiries are welcome from prospective MA or PhD scholars who would like an
opportunity to grapple full time with challenging urban research questions
and issues (past and present) in greater Cape Town or elsewhere. Our aim is
to provide a stimulating forum for learning and for exchange of views in
conjunction with a critical research seminar series and other exciting work
being done locally on cities.
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