There is an open call for a doctoral student and a postdoctoral researcher within the research project “Racial Socialism: Racialization and Value in Socialist Red Cross Societies”, funded by the European Research Council (ERC), as a part of the Consolidator Grant (ID: 101231162) led by Čarna Brković.
There is an open call for a doctoral student and a postdoctoral researcher within the research project “Racial Socialism: Racialization and Value in Socialist Red Cross Societies”, funded by the European Research Council (ERC), as a part of the Consolidator Grant (ID: 101231162) led by Čarna Brković.
“Racial Socialism <https://kultur.ftmk.uni-mainz.de/en/racial-socialism/>” examines humanitarian work in socialist countries to generate new perspectives on racialization. Racialization is the process of constructing certain groups as fundamentally distinct from one another based on allegedly essential biological differences. The role that racialization has played in the historical emergence of capitalism is well understood, as the extraction of socio-economic value has often been justified by the framing of populations as ontologically different along racialized lines. Yet, historical sources also show that people in socialist societies were racialized, too, but little theoretical work has been done to clarify this apparent contradiction.
The project studies national Red Cross societies in three socialist countries – the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia, the German Democratic Republic, and the People’s Republic of Bulgaria. By combining detailed historical research on socialist humanitarian organizations with anthropological theories of value and racialization, the project will develop new theoretical framework to understand the ways that racialization was deployed in socialist societies.
PhD position
We are seeking a researcher to conduct a doctoral case study either on the Red Cross Society of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia or on the Red Cross Society of the German Democratic Republic. More info: https://stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/55297
Postdoc position
We are seeking a researcher to conduct a case study on the Red Cross Society in the People’s Republic of Bulgaria. For more info: https://stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/55196
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