The University of Amsterdam's Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development Studies (GPIO) welcomes applicants for four PhD positions within the research project ANIMAPOLIS ("Political Animals: A More-than-human Approach to Urban Inequalities"), funded by a European Research Council Advanced Grant. All four positions start April 1, 2023 and will be embedded in the department's Urban Geographies programme group.
The ANIMAPOLIS project explores how animals' interactions with humans and infrastructures co-produce the unequal distribution of risks and resources across urban spaces and populations. It focuses on two critical urban domains, security and public health, that are often characterized by stark inequalities, and takes the role of key animals within these domains - dogs and rats, respectively - as an analytical entry-point. Through what mechanisms might security dogs co-produce practices of racial profiling, or distributions of rats affect public health outcomes? The project is led by Rivke Jaffe, who will also act as the PhDs' primary supervisor.