Hi all,
Please bring the following PhD opportunity to the attention of any Masters Students/others in your departments. The position is being readvertised as the previous candidate could not take up the position.
For more information, please feel free to contact me.
Ruth Craggs ([log in to unmask])
Department of Geography, Environment and Earth Science, University of Hull
Fully Funded PhD project: News from elsewhere - Gemini News Service, journalism and the decolonization of knowledge
Aim and description of the research
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. As such, the project has clear geographical dimensions, but it is couched in wider, interdisciplinary frames.
A background in cultural, historical, development or political geography; history; development studies; media and cultural studies or other cognate disciplines is preferred, but candidates with other skills will be considered. A Masters Degree will be an advantage, but is not essential.
This project is re-advertised as the previous appointee could not take up this position. Previous candidates are welcome to re-apply.
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 12 October 2012.
Information on the application process is available at
http://www2.hull.ac.uk/student/admissions/postgraduate/howtoapply/researchmastersphd.aspx
www.hull.ac.uk/jobs
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