{"id":3873736,"date":"2026-09-23T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T10:15:09","slug":"3873736","status":"publish","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/laura.fi\/en\/vacancies\/tampereen-yliopisto\/postdoctoral-researcher-global-palestine-and-environmental-violence-glopal-and-homcri-projects-tutkijatohtori-globaali-palestiina-ja-ymparistollisen-vakivalla\/3873736\/","title":{"rendered":"Postdoctoral Researcher, Global Palestine and Environmental Violence (\u2018GloPal\u2019 and \u2018HOMCRI\u2019-projects) \/ Tutkijatohtori, Globaali Palestiina ja ymp\u00e4rist\u00f6llisen v\u00e4kivallan muodot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We are now looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to carry out research as part of two research projects: \u2018Global Palestine: Frontier Geographies of a Region in Flux\u2019 (GloPal,\u00a0<\/strong>funded by the Research Council of Finland<\/strong>) and \u2018Dwelling with Crisis: Home at Spaces of Chronic Violence (HOMCRI, funded by European Research Council). Fixed-term position is filled for 2 years (24 months, full time), starting from 1 February 2027 (or upon agreement).<\/strong><\/p>\n

The \u2018Global Palestine: Frontier Geographies of a Region in Flux\u2019<\/em> (GloPal) explores how Palestine has become a key frontier through which contemporary global transformations and political frictions unfold, travel and circulate. Linking colonial violence to geopolitics, innovation capital, environmental harm, and far-right policies, the project focuses on how processes emerging in Palestine both intensify global and regional connections, and travel elsewhere through three interconnected frontiers: innovation capital, destabilization of democracy, and the ecologies of security and militarization. The ERC-funded\u00a0<\/strong>project Dwelling with Crisis: Home at Spaces of Chronic Violence (HOMCRI)<\/em> focuses on incapacitating material, affective, and political environments of everyday dwelling in spaces of economic collapse, infrastructural shortage, protracted state\/settler violence and\/or war-torn environments.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n

The role of the postdoctoral researchers is to conduct research as part of the two above mentioned projects\u2014the GloPal-project<\/a> (Research Council of Finland, 2025-2029) and the HOMCRI-project<\/a> (ERC Consolidator Grant, 2023-2028). The projects are led by Prof. Mikko Joronen and are implemented by a research team of eight researchers: 3 postdoctoral researchers, a senior research fellow, 3 PhD-students, and the PI, all affiliated to \u2018Geographies of Coloniality and Everyday Violence Research Group<\/a>\u2019 (GOCEP) at Tampere University.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to a work with a work package of GloPal-project that explores environmentally damaging forms of security and militarization, particularly how they are developed, implemented, assembled and legitimized through the colonial frontiers in Palestine, but also through technologies, practices, and ecological harms that travel to and reshape\u2014frontier in\u2014other sites around the world. The hiring also relates to a component of the HOMCRI project, particularly its efforts to develop novel conceptual approaches and to investigate the lived materialities of environmental violence in Palestine. Postdoctoral researcher is expected to devote most of the time to research, including independent and collaborative fieldwork, analysis and collection of research materials, publishing and dissemination of results, and collaboration with other team members as outlined in the project plan. The remaining work time will be devoted to other project activities and teaching (no more than 5% of annual work time); these will be agreed upon separately.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The position provides an excellent opportunity to develop independent research profile in relation to key themes of the project, and by working with an interdisciplinary and international research team on themes closely related to critical and political geographies of environmental violence in Palestine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Requirements\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

We are looking for candidates with a doctoral degree in human geography or other relevant fields in social sciences and humanities (PhD must be fully<\/em> completed by the end of the year 2026). Demonstrated research experience on Palestine and on thematic and conceptual aspects related to the two projects are a key for a successful application. We welcome all relevant disciplinary backgrounds but consider knowledge on the fields closely associated with political geography an advantage. Excellent knowledge on qualitative methods and key methodological and conceptual debates (in human\/political geography and\/or cognate fields, such as anthropology, sociology, and political science) relevant for questions of environmental violence, securitization and militarization, and their regional and global connections, are a key for successful application.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Candidate\u2019s own research interests and areas of strength, and the thematic, methodological, and theoretical specifications they offer to complement the research aims of the GloPal and HOMCRI -projects should be elaborated in a separate Letter of Motivation. We expect the candidate to demonstrate a strong level of motivation and commitment to the two projects by becoming an active part of our GOCEP research group.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Postdoctoral researcher is expected to be able to conduct independent research, to publish in key relevant international journals, and to collaborate with other team members in various parts of the project.\u00a0Good level of English in writing and communication is required.<\/p>\n

When evaluating candidates, the following criteria are considered:\u00a0<\/p>\n