Postdoctoral position on « Urban energy economies in the Middle East: social justice and energy transition ».

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CNRS Humanities and Social Sciences is inviting applications for a two-year post-doctoral position as part of its support for research into the habitability of the planet.
The theme of this call is « Urban energy economies in the Middle East: social justice and energy transition ».

The position is based at UMR CERI (France) and involves collaboration with UMIFRE IFPO (based in Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Palestinian Territories).

The energy and ecological transition in Middle Eastern countries has specific characteristics and configurations, different from those in Europe or North America, but also from those in the Persian Gulf, which are characterised by energy abundance and the resulting financial wealth.

CERI and IFPO are proposing to recruit a post-doctoral researcher to study these issues on the basis of fieldwork located in this region, if possible incorporating a relational and comparative dimension between the different countries, and even possibly between the region and neighbouring regions.

Under the supervision of a member of CERI, specialising in urban geography, and in partnership with IFPO’s Contemporary Studies Department, the post-doctoral researcher, with a doctorate in human and social sciences, will carry out research on the energy transition in the Middle East, incorporating a relational and comparative dimension between different countries.
The question of social justice will be a guiding thread in the work. Several angles of analysis are possible, in particular :

– Socio-technical analysis of old and new urban energy systems and their interdependence (urban mobility, electricity supply, energy consumption in particular).

– Analysis of the territorialisation and politicisation of energy issues within urban public policies (institutional structuring, political economy and role of private players, securing infrastructures and mobilisation around social justice issues).

The aim of this post-doctoral contract is to give an early-career PhD holder (less than three years after PhD defense) the opportunity of developing his/her research within the supportive framework of two well established laboratories.

Through this experience, the person recruited will be able to gain experience in a humanities and social sciences laboratory, deepen their knowledge in a specific field of research and acquire greater independence in the scientific field of the humanities and social sciences.