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<B>Betreff: </B>research on human excrements in the tourism contact zone<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'>Sorry for the impersonal message, but I wanted to circulate this widely. We currently advertise a very interesting PhD studentship within the thematic field of tourism and waste. This is absolutely urgent as we wish to fill this as soon as possible. Applications should reach me this week. Please tell your people to get in touch with me as soon as possible, to discuss. Ideally the candidate would work within a small very experienced British-German-French-Malagasy anthropology research team involved in a programme on human excrements in the tourism contact zone in Madagascar. Other locations and themes are also welcome (cf. phd studentship outline; yet at this stage I would prioritise applications addressing the Madagascar case). The Madagascar research addresses three main issues/objectives: 1) cultural dimensions of human excretion within the Malagasy context (conceptions of hygiene, the social self, the body, consumption and digestion, cosmos and death, etc.); 2) hospitality practice and ways of dealing with strangers, with non-exclusive focus on ‘washroom dilemmas’ (conception/enchantment of the stranger, politics of risk, power/magic, hygienic, spiritual, sexual contagion, intersubjectivity and hygiene, amicable manipulation of strangers, social role/function of stranger in everyday life/festive practice and performance, dealing with the bodyness of strangers, etc.); 3) social dynamics of the tourism contact zones/borderlands (interculturality/transnationality, geopolitical contexts, power/knowledge/symbolic violence, representations, contested conceptions e.g. of private-public, etc., transculturation, anti-conquest/anti-tourism discourse, auto-ethnography). Carrying out this research would enable a motivated candidate to produce an excellent research record, cutting edge publishable outputs and a brilliant international academic network. Furthermore, the theme could lead to both theoretical and practical outputs and follow-on postdoctoral research (for academic institutions or why not for the World Health Organisation). ‘Waste’ is an issue at the heart of contemporary debates/policies of co-development, sustainable consumption, international economics, interculturality, etc. Also, it is increasingly addressed within different academic fields (environmental anthropology, religious anthropology, sociology, geography etc.). The research itself would make it necessary to spend about a year in a Madagascan fishing village, plus two years in Leeds. So please send this to anyone motivated, with experience in living in a sometimes difficult environment (very basic life, cultural solitude, limited but sufficient access to fresh water, a lot of fish to eat, transport by pirogue and taxi brousse, very nice people in the Madagascan village, very good institutional support within Madagascar), ideally with fluency in French. Again: tell people to contact me as soon as possible and to send applications by the end of this week. <BR>
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</SPAN><FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE="4"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'>Thank you all so much! David<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:13.0px'>Dr David Picard<BR>
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