[STS-Africa] Fwd: Call for Applications: African Urban Futures Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

[Gianluca Miscione]

Call for Applications: African Urban Futures Postdoctoral Research
Fellowships


 
<https://www.africancentreforcities.net/call-for-applications-african-urban-
futures-postdoctoral-research-fellowships/> 25 May 2022

ACC and the  <https://www.uu.nl/en/research/urban-futures-studio> Urban
Futures Studio at Utrecht University are undertaking a two-year
investigation into processes of futuring that can advance traction for
sustainable urban transitions among city leaders and decision-makers. The
project rests on the assumption that sustainable urban development requires
a break with the present logic of development that predominates in most
African countries. This logic is tethered to a modernist vision of advanced
post-industrial development that thrives through extractive energy and
production systems, reinforced by a consumerist culture. In this imagination
chamber, cities are the most sophisticated expressions of modernist progress
and productive circulation, manifest in highways, skyscrapers, pristine
suburbs and convenience for urban consumers. The environmental, social and
economic costs of these ambitions are usually ignored. The project
recognizes that there is now considerable evidence and discourse on what
sustainable urbanisms might entail in an African context, but this has not
been translated into compelling narratives that are resonant with political
and policy leaders. The project asks, how might this be changed? How can
examples of emergent experiments in sustainable inform new narratives. What
kind of institutional and regulatory adaptations and inventions are required
to translate experimental intent to the new normal?

Call for applications
The ACC invites applications from two suitably qualified applicants to apply
for these one-year renewable Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (renewable
for up to a total of two years, depending on satisfactory progress). Two
positions are available. The successful candidates will be part of the Urban
Policy Research Chair at ACC. Beyond the pursuit of their own postdoctoral
research, the successful applicant is expected to contribute to the project
in one of the following two domains:

*	Undertake case study research to identify the emergent pockets of
urban development innovation in African cities that, if stitched together,
may help create an imaginary of alternative futures for African cities.
*	Undertake an analysis of the crucial 'agents of change' for this new
approach to urban Futures, in conjunction with various urban and city
networks and key stakeholders that shape the urban governance landscape in
Africa.

As part of Urban Futures Studio and ACC's intellectual and institutional
enterprise, the successful applicant will also be expected to share their
work in internal and public forums, be able to engage with colleagues in
relation to at least one of our areas of existing work and provide
mentorship to ACC's postgraduate student cohort.

https://www.africancentreforcities.net/call-for-applications-african-urban-f
utures-postdoctoral-research-fellowships/

 

 

 

 


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