Are you interested in international development? Are you not afraid of using both qualitative and quantitative research methods? Do you want to push the boundaries of economic thought and practice? Then this job may be for you.
Application deadline: 14 April 2024
The Department of Anthropology at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is seeking a Research Assistant for two years for the project ‘Time to pay up? Reparations and global development challenges’ (REPAIR).
The REPAIR project studies empirically how reparations payments are justified, made and received around the world. Our research team consists of the principal investigator (PI) Dr Felix Stein, a PhD candidate, a postdoctoral researcher, a junior researcher (this could be you!), and an administrative assistant.
Together, we will ask:
– When and how reparations are established, paid and received in international development settings.
– What that teaches us about international development from a moral, political and economic perspective.
– How the global push for reparations challenges existing economic thought and practice.
The project uses mixed methods to answer these questions. On the qualitative side, we ask people in three in-depth case studies how they justify reparations claims and payments, what kind of harm they think can or cannot be repaired and what meanings they ascribe to money.
We also investigate which reparations programmes reach their stated goals, and how they challenge existing logics of international aid and investment. On the quantitative side we establish and analyse an open-access dataset of the largest reparations payments around the world from World War II until today. The project is funded by a Starting Grant from the European Research Council. The postdoctoral position is embedded in the research group Moving Matters.
Learn more and apply here: https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Junior-Researcher-in-the-Project-‘Reparations-in-Development’/789395602/