2 PhD Positions Social Sciences at University of Basel

The Gender, War, and Security Research Group at the Center for Gender Studies in the Department of Social Sciences, University of Basel invites applications for two PhD positions. The PhD students will be part of a research project led by Dr. Elizabeth Mesok, studying the development and implementation of security strategies designed to 'counter and prevent violent extremism,' with a particular focus on the gendered implications of such strategies.

The planned research will focus on the emergence of gendered approaches to 'counter and prevent violent extremism' as enacted across different sectors including state and military institutions, civil society organizations, and multilateral development agencies, as well as the impact such strategies have on the communities in which they are implemented. PhD projects will ideally combine feminist ethnographic and discursive methods, and engage with critical security studies and feminist theory. The PhD is interdisciplinary and the students will be based in the Center for Gender Studies, with opportunities to work with the Departments of Political Science, Cultural Anthropology, and African Studies.

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2 PhD Positions Social Sciences at University of Basel