Postdoctoral/Research Fellows in Asia Research Institute (Food Politics and Society Cluster FY27/28)

National University of Singapore, Singapore

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The Asia Research Institute invites applications from ambitious scholars to conduct cutting-edge academic humanities or social sciences research on Asia. 

Apart from the quality of the proposed research and publication plans, and the applicant’s existing publication track record, positions will be awarded on the basis of the relationship of their research to the identified themes and priorities of the relevant ARI research cluster.

Given that a growing proportion of ARI’s funding is derived from external sources, preference will be also given to candidates with the potential to collaborate in developing competitive research grant applications.

Food Politics and Society Cluster

The Food Politics and Society cluster is an interdisciplinary forum where interested scholars explore the dynamic impact of food and food systems at multiple levels--individual, household, community, society, national and international. The cluster welcomes diverse methodological approaches, from deploying ethnographic and archival skills to using visual and textual tools, as well as leveraging quantitative datasets. Open to examination of contemporary developments and historical trajectories, the empirical locus of the cluster’s food scholarship privileges Asia, an incredibly rich laboratory in which to study the intersections among power relations, vested interests, complex networks, and contested meanings of food that permeate our past, present and future lives.

The Cluster’s three main strands of research are as follows:

(i)           Power, Politics, and Policy

(ii)          Production, Consumption, and Technology

(iii)         Historical Legacies and Meaning


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