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University Funded 3 year PhD studentship
Department of Geography,
The Open University
Securing Life: Biosecurity, Biopolitics, Biopower
Securing life has become a key problematic in contemporary societies.
Increasingly involving the differential valuing, promoting, and
regulating of various forms of life and living as much as the attempt to
make matters safe through the halting of movement, how to manage the
vitality and circulation of human and nonhuman bodies is now a constant
challenge in all kinds of spaces.
Following the award of an ESRC grant entitled Biosecurity Borderlands, a
linked but independent university-funded PhD studentship with no
nationality or residence restrictions is available to investigate such
concerns for three years starting in October 2009 (or as soon as
possible after). Based in the Open University's Department of
Geography, the successful candidate will be encouraged to:
- develop a project that investigates current concerns in one or more of
the following broad areas: the production, regulation or excess of human
and/or nonhuman 'life' and lives; the practice(s) of security; the
politics of living with other bodies (human or nonhuman); the sites of
life's negotiation (e.g. sciences, agriculture, medicine, food);
- explore how current theoretical understandings such as (bio)security,
(bio)geographies, (bio)politics, or (bio)power or similar speak to or
are challenged by these practices and their contemporary transformations;
- have a sense of how their study might - in a broad sense - complement
and extend the work of the team investigating biosecurity in the UK at
Exeter and the Open Universities.
For further particulars please email:
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Alternatively contact Dr Nick Bingham ([log in to unmask]) for
informal discussion about the position.
The closing date for applications is Friday 17th July.
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