IFAS-Research (French Institute of South Africa) is inviting applications from Masters, Doctoral, Post-Doctoral students and researchers as well as research teams for grants available for the year 2012. Research teams, researchers and students can send their applications for the financing of research works, events, field trips or publications for 2012. There are no conditions of nationality for these grants. Projects proposing research in line with that of the IFAS will be given preference.
This call is intended to elicit projects from researchers from both Europe and Southern Africa. Beyond the themes/focus areas indicated, Southern African researchers willing to submit projects of a comparative nature (between Southern Africa and Europe) requiring fieldwork in France are welcome.
Focus Areas
– Southern African Cities: Urban Dynamics and Governance
Issues of security, privatisation of public services, local government and the adoption of “best practice” models, participation, migration and xenophobia, historical development of Southern African cities, spatial justice and the right to the city, neighbourhood and city memory.
– Democratic Transformation in the Region
-> Mapping of electoral dynamics, party politics, republicanism;
-> Law and transformation : constitutional changes, protection of minority rights, equity policies; human rights regime, refugee & asylum regimes, citizenship and its transformation, challenges posed by right of access to basic services;
-> Education and transformation: school and nation-building processes, language policy, higher education transformation, elite formation.
– Long Term Perspective on the History of People’s Settlement in Southern Africa
Multidisciplinary knowledge of Middle and Late Stone Age; past and current migration trends in the field of history, archaeology, rock art, socio-anthropology, linguistics, current issues of memory and the celebration of history in contemporary Southern Africa
– Comparative Development Economics
Formal/informal labour, economic policy development, governance, effects of liberalisation on Southern African economies, sector-focused studies, SADC-NEPAD – EU relations, critical and comparative approaches to development economics, in particular to sustainable development issues (such as environmental justice).
Eligibility Criteria
– an existing or potential scientific partnership between France and Southern Africa, and with Francophone countries when applicable; if in doubt the applicants may contact IFAS to be put in touch with researchers likely to collaborate with them
– an overall budget of less than 40 000 South African Rands or 4000 euros;
– financial participation from another institution
Last date for submitting the applications is November 30, 2011.
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