Iméra Postdoctoral Fellowship 2024, Aix-Marseille Universities, France

Deadline for purposes: 17 July 2023

Within the framework of its Mediterranean programme, Iméra, the Institut for Superior Examine (IAS) of Aix-Marseille College and Edinburgh College’s Alwaleed Centre for the Examine of Islam within the Modern World are beginning in 2020 a fellowship programme entitled:

Muslim solidarities within the face of crises within the Mediterranean

This analysis mission led by Professor Frédéric Volpi (College of Edinburgh) Senior Fellow at Iméra 2021-24, proposes to review how mechanisms of solidarity are arrange, function, and remodel modern Mediterranean identities in disaster conditions. Extra particularly, it researches and analyzes the position of Muslim solidarities within the evolution of types of Mediterranean civility and citizenship.

The proliferation of political, socio-economic and environmental crises is producing a rise within the variety of migrants and refugees in all of the nations of the area. On this context, state insurance policies are sometimes unable to utterly and/or successfully handle these inhabitants actions and their penalties. The truth is, civil society actors, from humanitarian organizations to spiritual organizations, have gotten common and infrequently important audio system on the topic.

Migratory actions and the dangers related to them are sometimes studied from a safety viewpoint, however the nature of the response that’s constructed from a societal viewpoint is far much less researched. Past the instant and concrete responses offered, how do these interactions remodel the humanitarian and non secular organizations that complement state insurance policies? To what extent do these exchanges, influenced by public debate and authorities motion, produce new types of civility and citizenship that apply each to migrants and to these they meet? And what’s the affect of this case on the evolution of Muslim non secular identities and their related practices of religiosity? Within the modern Mediterranean context, this program proposes to review to begin with the articulation of those types of solidarity by means of so-called Islamic organizations, in addition to by means of the interactions between these organizations and different actors of civil society, each non secular and non-religious.

The evaluation of their relations with people and communities on the transfer, in addition to with civil society and state actors, will make clear the transformations of each the concepts and the social and political practices that underlie the modern Mediterranean id.

Most important themes

Axis 1: Analysis of the speeches and official positions of civil society organizations (Islamic and non-Islamic in orientation) on each shores of the Mediterranean that are going through a disaster state of affairs producing the displacement of individuals. Evaluation of the actions of those organizations and their interactions with individuals on the transfer, different organizations and public actors. (Specifically the exchanges between several types of actors and their penalties for the individuals focused by these actions and for the organizations themselves.)

Axis 2: Evaluation of the evolution of concepts and practices of civility and citizenship across the Mediterranean. The analysis sheds mild on the connection between state insurance policies on the one hand and the mixing (or exclusion) of the actions and discourses of civil society actors beforehand studied on the opposite, by means of the prism of public debate. in addition to that of various classes of individuals on the transfer.

Scientific framework of the residency

The ‘Muslim Solidarity’ resident will contribute to the analysis mission led by Professor Frédéric Volpi and can specifically lead a mirrored image and discipline work on one of many themes of the ‘Muslim solidarity within the face of crises within the Mediterranean’ mission. On this context, he may even be an Affiliate Fellow of the Alwaleed Middle on the College of Edinburgh.

His analysis work falls inside the framework of the priorities of the Mediterranean program of IMéRA and specifically of its analysis axis on Mediterranean Islam.

The aim of the residency interval at Imera is to provide from this analysis work the foundations of a base of observations and knowledge contributing to the deepening of the mission and the elucidation of the questions it raises. Specifically, one of many targets of the residency would be the co-production with the mission director of scientific work resembling articles, chapters, and so on. on the finish of the residency interval. Different attainable actions embody the group of a workshop or a seminar, in Marseilles and/or Edinburgh, and the collaboration in a collective work.

Schedule

Utility deadline: July 17, 2023, 1 p.m. (CET)
Publication of outcomes: early October 2023
Length of residency: 5 months
Residency interval: February to June 2024

Utility Conditions

English and French language abilities: residents should have the ability to perceive each languages orally and in writing (passive data) and grasp at the very least one orally and in writing (lively data).
Candidates undertake to take part within the collective actions of the residence deliberate with the opposite residents and the scientific workforce of Iméra.
The Neighborhood Constructing Seminar is on this sense one of many central actions, which takes place each week (normally on Thursdays for 3 hours). The funding time is equal to in the future per week. Candidates, who’re former residents of Iméra, can submit a brand new utility at the very least 5 years after their first analysis keep.

Eligibility standards

Show competence and scientific excellence within the required discipline;
Maintain a doctorate or PhD; Be a junior researcher, with postdoctoral expertise in full-time analysis of between 2 and 9 years;
Not having resided in France for greater than 12 months within the three years previous the decision for purposes.

Remuneration

The residency is open to junior students, whether or not or not they maintain a place in a college or a analysis group. Relying on their statutory place, the researcher receives an allowance (underneath an allocation settlement) or a web wage (underneath a fixed-term contract) of two,000 euros per thirty days.

Sensible info

Throughout the residency, Iméra gives the researcher with: (i) an workplace and a pc on the premises of Iméra with entry to frequent tools (printer, landline phone), (ii) entry to databases of the AMU digital library and (iii) help with administrative procedures.

If crucial, Iméra will present the researcher with furnished and geared up lodging on the town close to its website.

Choice standards

The file analysis standards are, in a non-exhaustive approach:

The scientific excellence of the researcher within the sense of the best worldwide requirements within the discipline;
The scientific excellence of the mission and specifically its interdisciplinary dimension, which is essential for the insertion of the researcher within the dynamics of collective creation at Iméra;
Have confirmed scientific excellence in one of many areas of analysis associated to one of many thematic axes of the residency “Muslim solidarity and modern crises within the Mediterranean”;
The flexibility to help scientific collaboration between the College of Edinburgh and Imera.

Purposes

The applying file consists of the next paperwork:

The applying kind duly accomplished and saved in Phrase format.
A Curriculum vitae together with a listing of publications
A presentation of the analysis mission (max 5 pages) adopted by a selective bibliography.
A minimum of one letter of help from a researcher or teacher-researcher from Aix-Marseille College OR a letter of motivation clearly explaining the candidate’s curiosity in interacting with Aix-Marseille College laboratories and finishing up a mission from Aix-Marseille.

Purposes have to be despatched solely by electronic mail earlier than July 17, 2023, at 1 p.m. (CET) to Constance Moréteau, educational coordinator at Iméra: constance.moreteau@univ-amu.fr

Supply / Extra info: Official Web site HERE.