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<span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt">ANNOUNCING 8 DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS</span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Calibri">“Urban Infrastructures in Transition: The Case of African Cities”</font></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font face="Calibri">The Graduate School for Urban
Studies (URBANgrad) from Darmstadt University of Technology announces
eight doctoral fellowships, beginning October 1, 2014. We welcome
applications from students with a master’s degree interested
in joining a new graduate program on urban and infrastructural change
in East Africa. This interdisciplinary program is funded by the Hans
Böckler Foundation and includes the following academic subjects: Spatial
and Infrastructure Planning, Urban Development
and Design, History of Technology, and Economic Geography and Global
Studies.</font></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><font face="Calibri">The program “Urban
Infrastructures in Transition” focuses on developments in the
East-African cities of Dar es Salaam and Nairobi. In particular, it
highlights the history of and the current challenges posed by urban
infrastructures—the supply and use of water, energy, sewerage, and
telecommunication services. Within its framework, researchers critically
investigate the tensions between, on the one hand, internationally
circulating technological ideals and models in the
planning, design and construction of cities (especially those of the<i> networked city</i>)
and, on the other hand, local processes of appropriation and
modification. Studies on the Tanzanian and Kenyan cities are carried out
with these overall perspectives
in mind:</font></span></p>
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<font face="Calibri"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">The cultural history of urban technologies</span></font></p>
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<font face="Calibri"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Formal and informal ways of producing urban space</span></font></p>
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<font face="Calibri"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Socio-technical assemblages and the planning process</span></font></p>
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<font face="Calibri"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Geographies of marketization, technopolitics and infrastructure</span></font></p>
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<font face="Calibri"><span lang="EN-US">We invite applications from
candidates with excellent academic records, a burning interest for
African cities, and who are socially and politically engaged (e.g., in
NGOs, unions, student bodies, political parties, or
churches). Fellowships are granted for a maximum of 3 years in
accordance with the rules of the Hans Böckler Foundation and the German
Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Monthly stipends are €
1,150,- (parents receive additional child allowances).
There are no tax reductions and tuition fees. However, fellows have to
finance their own health insurance. For more information, please refer
to: </span><a href="http://www.stadtforschung.tu-darmstadt.de/afrika/index.en.jsp" style="color:purple" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.stadtforschung.tu-darmstadt.de/afrika/index.en.jsp</span></a><span lang="EN-US">,
or contact the program director Jochen Monstadt (</span><a style="color:purple" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">j.monstadt@iwar.tu-darmstadt.de</span></a><span lang="EN-US">; +49-6151 16 2248) or one of the other professors.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><font face="Calibri"><span lang="EN-US">Interested
candidates are asked to send their application (in English or German)
as an email attachment directly to the following address: </span><a style="color:purple" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">afrika@stadtforschung.tu-darmstadt.de</span></a></font><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Calibri">. </font></span><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-US">Please
include (1) a CV, (2) copies of academic diplomas, (3) information on yo</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt" lang="EN-US">ur activities in NGOs etc.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:12pt" lang="EN-US"> (4)
a 5-page
first sketch describing your planned PhD project and how it might
contribute to our general research program (please merge the documents
into one single pdf-file, max. 6 MB). Deadline is <b>February 28, 2014</b>.</span></p>
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