Research & Development
Two Postdoctoral positions in Ethnology at the Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen
Resumé
Two postdoctoral researchers will conduct ethnographic or archival research on technologies and moral practices for managing urban animals in Scandinavia, contributing to the Tolerating Urban Animals project.
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Kort om jobbet
The Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), invites applications for two postdoctoral positions in Ethnology from 1 February 2027. The positions are fixed term positions for three years. Introduction The two postdoc positions will be based at the Saxo Institute and associated with the Centre for Sustainable Futures. The positions will be part of the project:
- Tolerating Urban Animals.
- Techno-moral perspectives on killing and caring for other species, funded by the Carlsberg Foundation’s Semper Ardens Accomplish programme.
- The Tolerating Urban Animals project explores the use of technologies for managing undomesticated and feral urban animals.
Through ethnographic fieldwork and archival studies in urban areas of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, it follows the technological development and legislation on animal rights in the EU since the 1970s, to explore technologies and everyday practices of deterring, killing, or caring for animals.
The project asks
Why, where, and by whom certain technologies are seen as adequate and morally1 …
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