PhD "Climate, Cooperation and Community in Asia"

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PhD "Climate, Cooperation and Community in Asia" Sintesi in italiano (traduzione automatica): L'organizzazione internazionale offre un'opportunità per un dottorato di ricerca incentrato su 'Clima, Cooperazione e Comunità in Asia'. Il candidato ideale è un storico curioso e orientato alla ricerca, interessato a lavorare in un team interdisciplinare. La sede del progetto è focalizzata sull'analisi delle dinamiche sociali nelle comunità rurali asiatiche in relazione ai cambiamenti climatici. Le mansioni principali includono la scrittura di una tesi di dottorato, l'analisi di fonti quantitative e qualitative, e la possibilità di condurre ricerche sul campo. È richiesta una laurea in storia o un campo correlato, con competenze in analisi storica e social psychology. Il progetto mira a comprendere come le comunità rispondono alle pressioni climatiche e offre spunti per politiche di adattamento future. Are you a curious, research-driven historian with an interest to collaborate in a team that is interdisciplinary? Do you wish to write a PhD thesis with impact? Then this is the vacancy for you! Your job Climate change poses a serious challenge to social cohesion in the coming decades. Extreme weather events, disruptions to food or water supplies, and the pressure to adopt new agricultural practices are already becoming increasingly visible, straining relations between people and decreasing trust in the institutions that guide collective responses. Communities are divided along existing fault lines such as those of neighbourhood, class, gender, and caste, or along new dimensions. Understanding how communities sustain or lose their ability to cooperate under climate induced pressures is an urgent question with implications for future adaptation policies around the world. In the post WWII period, rural societies in Asian countries underwent a dramatic transformation. The introduction of new agricultural technologies increased crop productivity and rural incomes. At the same time, these changes reshaped economic, political, and social power in rural communities. They also exposed farmers to new forms of climate risk. Focusing on local processes during this period allows us to trace when and why cooperation breaks down or endures, and to assess the consequences for sustainable development. The project asks the following interlinked questions. How did climate change affect social cohesion at intra- and inter-group levels in rural Asian communities? And what can this tell us about how communities respond to climate-based disruption more generally? These overarching questions open onto several potential research avenues, that can be pursued depending on the candidate’s interests and expertise as well as data availability. This could include research focused within or across countries, as well as across different levels and dimensions of cooperation. We expect such a project to require engagement with quantitative and qualitative sources, with the possibility of fieldwork. Through a comparative and long run study of rural Asia, the project will investigate interactions between climate, institutions and cooperative behaviour to understand the drivers of cooperation through historical analysis, with additional insight from the field of social psychology. By clarifying when cooperation succeeds or fails in historically climate-vulnerable agricultural contexts, the project offers lessons for climate adaptation in other countries around the world. Annuncio in inglese. Fonte: Euraxess (Commissione europea).