MCLC: U of Amsterdam postdoc: Imagining the Rural

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U of Amsterdam postdoc: Imagining the Rural
Three-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Amsterdam: "Imagining the Rural in Contemporary Chinese Culture”.
Application deadline 17 June 2018.
Full information:
http://www.uva.nl/shared-content/uva/en/vacancies/2018/05/18-288-postdoctoral-researcher-imagining-the-rural-in-contemporary-chinese-culture.html
Key passage from the job description:
Using a distinctive humanities approach, the RURAL IMAGINATIONS research project examines prominent cultural imaginations of the rural in film, television and literature in the UK, US, Netherlands, China and South Africa, asking:• to what extent do these imaginations render globalization’s effects on the rural (in)visible?;• what role do traditional rural genres and the feelings or desires they attach to the rural play in this making (in)visible? and• how can new aesthetic repertoires highlighting the rural as a site of globalization and addressing rural-urban divides and inequalities be developed?
The five subprojects conduct, in their national contexts, a narrative, visual and discursive analysis of post-2000 rural imaginations, guided by an innovative theoretical framework combining three concepts: the chronotope reveals what the imagined rural time-space renders visible and how it relates to urban and global time-space; spectrality gives access to what rural imaginations render invisible and to their haunting by traditional genres; and affect exposes how these imaginations attach feelings and desires to the rural, impacting its evaluation and political mobilization. The project synthesis compares the five contexts and examines how rural imaginations interact globally.
Best,
Maghiel van Crevel, PhD
Professor of Chinese Language and Literature
Leiden University
by denton.2 at osu.edu on May 28, 2018
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