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Please see below for details of a fully funded Phd project at the University of Hull. Please circulate these details widely, and particularly to any masters students. Deadline: 18th March.
Fully Funded PhD project: News from elsewhere - Gemini News Service, journalism and the decolonization of knowledge (Department of Geography, University of Hull)
The project focuses on the Gemini News Service -a pioneering news service active 1967-2002 whose archives are held by the Guardian newspaper. Emerging in the context of rapid decolonisation, Gemini focused on reporting social, political and environmental issues from the developing world to press outlets in the UK and across the Commonwealth. In particular, it challenged the practice of ‘parachute’ reporting of developing countries by western correspondents who represented these regions from European perspectives. Instead, Gemini relied on reporters resident in the countries about which they wrote to generate grounded understandings of local events. The aim of the project is to explore the cultural and political histories and geographies of Gemini’s journalism and to set this in the context of broader shifts in ways of knowing and reporting the global south, 1965- present.
A background in cultural/historical/development/political geography, history or cognate disciplines is preferred, but candidates with other skills will be considered. A Masters Degree will be an advantage, but is not essential.
For more information on the project, contact Ruth Craggs ([log in to unmask]), David Atkinson ([log in to unmask]) or Tom Coulthard ([log in to unmask] )
The studentship is open to UK/EU applicants only. For more details of The Geography Department at the University of Hull see http://www2.hull.ac.uk/science/geography.aspx.
Closing date is Friday 18 May 2012.
Information on the application process is available at
http://www2.hull.ac.uk/student/admissions/postgraduate/howtoapply/researchmastersphd.aspx
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