Posted on March 11, 2019
The Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at the University of Pretoria (UP) is calling for qualified persons to apply for Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships as part of a project on “Entanglement, Mobility and Improvisation: Culture and Arts in Contemporary African Urbanism and its Hinterlands”, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The project seeks to move beyond the current scholarship on African cities that have focused on African cities as little islands, separated from their hinterlands – the rural other. Working through a range of cultural formats and artistic genres, the project hopes to surface the defining features of these urban spaces and their rural hinterlands. The cities identified for this study are, Kampala, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Accra, Nairobi and Lagos. These cities share African roots, but are also distinctive, because of their shared colonial/apartheid histories, their multiplicity of old and invented languages, their innumerable waves of immigrants from their rural hinterlands but also some whose origins readily violate national boundaries, and who continue to bring labour, culture and new creative economies; and the sometimes tragic structures of oppression that these cities have undergone. The project aims to examine how looking at the cities from the perspectives of the rural and specifically through the mobility of people, ideas, cultural forms and arts between the cities and the rural spaces, we are able to grasp, both intellectually and viscerally, the intricate workings of urban spaces and their hinterlands in Africa.
| The doctoral scholarships are available to any national or international candidate who qualifies based on the following conditions: | The UP Postdoctoral Fellowships are available to any national or international candidate who qualifies based on the following conditions: |
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| Must have a Masters degree in any discipline related to English/African literature, arts, culture and heritage studies. | Must have completed a doctorate, completed no more than five years prior to their appointment as postdoctoral fellows. |
| Evidence of active research and publications in peer-reviewed journals will also be an added advantage. | Must be a young researcher (generally up to 40 years of age). |
| Preference will be given to black South Africans, especially black women. | Must have a PhD in any discipline related to English/African literature, arts, culture and heritage studies. |
| Must have worked in the area of urban and rural studies, with a focus on literature, arts, cultural studies. | |
| Evidence of active research and publications in peer-reviewed journals will also be an added advantage. | |
| Preference will be given to black South Africans, especially black women. |
More infomration is available in the linked doctoral and postdoctoral advertisements.
Your application should include full Curriculum Vitae, three referees with contact details (one of whom must have been a mentor or supervisor of the doctorate), and no more than a three-page motivation for research interest, should be sent to:
Mrs. Kirsty Nepomceno
Project Co-ordinator
E-mail: [email protected]
Please direct all your queries to:
Professor James Ogude
Director – Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship.
University of Pretoria.
E-mail: [email protected]
The deadline for applications is 31 March 2019.
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