The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä is seeking to recruit:
A Doctoral Researcher in Memory Politics for a fixed term of 3 years, starting on January 2nd 2025 or according to a separate agreement.
The position is allocated to the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy (disciplinary unit of Political Science) and to a project funded by Research Council of Finland: Reframing Restitution: Postcolonial Object Movement, Transnational Memory and Social Repair (https://research.fi/en/results/funding/81356).
Making use of research in political studies, memory and heritage studies, postcolonial and critical Indigenous studies, the project engages in an inquiry into postcolonial restitution of cultural objects from Western museums and public collections to Indigenous and formerly colonized people who are descendants of these objects’ creators and custodians. The project seeks to ‘reframe restitution’ away from the dominant imaginary of a singular event of return to socio-cultural and political processes of reclaiming, rehoming, reintegrating, re-semanticizing, repairing and remembering.
Apply between 13 August 2024 and 1 October 2024 23:59 (Europe/Helsinki)