Find 3 job announcements for the new project SOY STORIES: Connected sustainability histories and futures of the global Soyacene, a collaboration of the History Lab (TU Eindhoven), Athena Institute (VU Amsterdam), and the Soy Observatory (UFFS Brazil):
1. PhD position: “SOY STORIES: Brazilian histories and futures of soy & (un)sustainability”
2. PhD position “SOY STORIES: Dutch histories and futures of soy & (un)sustainability"
About the project:
Different regions across the globe face grave sustainability challenges that may be at once highly diverse and highly interconnected. Since the 1970s, accelerating soy production in Brazil has been associated with large-scale deforestation, land-grabbing, child labor and more. Meanwhile soy-based intensive animal farming in the Netherlands came with a 4-decades-long national nitrogen crisis (currently a key public controversy), public health hazards, greenhouse gas emissions and animal welfare problems. Yet regional sustainability histories and futures are predominantly studied in geographical isolation. The research project SOY STORIES investigates how we can study these region’s sustainability histories as connected, and draws implications for thinking about (likewise connected) inclusive sustainability futures.
