Apologies for x-posting - two VERY exciting posts at Wageningen University in the Netherlands for critical political ecologists!
Best, Bram On 18/11/2014 04:19, "Turnhout, Esther" <esther.turnh...@wur.nl> wrote: >Please circulate widely to potential interested candidates, best wishes, >Esther Turnhout > >The Forest and Nature Conservation Policy (FNP) chair group of Wageningen >University (www.fnp.wur.nl) has two vacancies for two enthusiastic and >ambitious academics at the associate or assistant professor level. > >FNP¹s research focuses on the political, social and cultural dimensions >of forests, nature and biodiversity in teaching and research activities. >These cover various regions in the world (the Netherlands, Europe, >Tropics) and various spatial and administrative scales (from the global >to the local). FNP's research program includes three interrelated themes: >(1) the global local nexus in forest and nature governance; (2) public >engagement and participation of private actors in public policy; and (3) >the role of knowledge and expertise in management and conservation >practices. Theoretically and methodologically, FNP's research program >builds upon the so-called Practice Based Approach (PBA). This approach >takes 'social-ecological practices' as its entry point of analysis and >goes beyond the methodological individualism of much of economics and >psychology, the structuralism of mainstream political science and >sociology, as well as the universalism and essentialism of positivist >sciences. As an alternative, an interpretive approach is offered that >produces situated accounts of forest and nature practices all around the >world and that includes both qualitative and quantitative research >methods. These accounts serve as the basis for scientific analysis as >well as for applied research and policy advice. > >For details on how to apply see: >https://www.academictransfer.com/employer/WUR/vacancy/25449/lang/en/#jobsp >ecifications -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
