Institution/Organiser: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity

Kind of support/work: Research position. Salary and benefits are according to the German public service pay scale (E 13 TVÖD Bund)

Duration: two years

Site: Göttingen, Germany

Topics: The researcher will work on the project 'Conditions of conviviality and conflict' to be based at the Institute and undertaken under supervision by Prof. Steven Vertovec together with Prof. Andreas Wimmer, Department of Sociology at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles). This project seeks to enhance our knowledge of the conditions - political, social, economic - that are likely to enhance peace and conviviality between ethnic movements, parties, and leaders, even when ethnicity has been politicized and politics is perceived as a matter of power relations between ethnic communities and their leaders. The project seeks to identify different patterns of protest mobilization and de-mobilization; the occurrence or absence of state repression or strategies of co-optation; different constellation of alliances with external actors, and so forth.

Eligibility: The candidate should hold a PhD in political science, political anthropology, political sociology or history.

Deadline: February 12, 2010

Contact: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Prof. Dr. Steven Vertovec, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, 37073 Göttingen, Germany

E-mail: vertovec@mmg.mpg.de

Internet: http://www.mmg.mpg.de/english/contemporaryIssues/JobOffers/social_scientist_conviviality/index.html