Doctoral Research Fellow in Medical Anthropology (ref 232906)

A Doctoral Research Fellowship in Medical Anthropology is available at the Institute of Health and Society (HELSAM), Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, University of Oslo. The Doctoral Fellowship is associated with the interdisciplinary RCN-Fellesløft project "Anthropogenic Soils: Recuperating Human-Soil Relationships on a Troubled Planet (SOILS)", 325635/ME, led by Associate Professor Ursula Münster. The project recruits a total of three Doctoral Research Fellows in Environmental Humanities (IKOS), Medical Anthropology (HELSAM), and Science and Technology Studies (TIK).

SOILS studies various dimensions of transforming human-soil relations in the Anthropocene. Our multidisciplinary research investigates how people in different parts of the world have invented, practiced, and imagined ways of recuperating soil health. The project conceptualizes soil not as natural resource to be exploited, but as "anthropogenic", as lively and dynamic natural-cultural composition responsive to human recuperation and healing. Closely collaborating in five work packages, SOILS combines empirical studies of repairing contaminated, toxic, and depleted soils in different parts of the globe – from South Asia to Norway and the Arctic – with speculative and artistic and research into the ways in which Indigenous writers and artists offer alternative modes of relating to soils, and for building possible future of earthly survival.

SOILS has three major objectives:

1) Develop knowledge about dispersed and little-known technologies and practices of soil repair in landscapes damaged by industrial agriculture, or toxic and radioactive legacies; 2) Explore the role of relational and multispecies soil imaginaries in technoscience, agriculture, literature, and the arts for building more sustainable futures; 3) Create awareness of soils as living multispecies ecologies responsive to human care, both within academia and in the public sphere. 

For more information and how to apply: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/232906/doctoral-research-fellow-in-medical-anthropology