Gender Affect: Experiencing Political and Economic Insecurity in a Post-Neoliberal Age

Nottingham Trent University | School of Arts and Humanities | Nottingham | United Kingdom Full or part time Dr S Genz Dr C Cakirlar Application Deadline Thursday, November 30, 2017 Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide) Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide) School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University About This PhD Project Project Description Project Description We would welcome applications from prospective PhD students wishing to work on questions of gender and affective labour under the supervision of Dr Stéphanie Genz. The project is interested in examining the affective dimensions of contemporary gendered experiences that typify gender politics and its narratives about socioeconomic privilege and insecurity. It aims to investigate and quantify different forms of affective labour that make meaningful (i.e. valuable) specific forms of gendered/racial/class identities and evaluate how this affective labour functions within these different domains in order to better understand gendered experiences in post-neoliberal societies. Proposals relating to any of the following areas may be especially welcome: gender and recession; self-branding and emotive consumption; postfeminist/neoliberal politics; online modes of self-fashioning and activist campaigning; bodily entrepreneurship. Specific qualifications/subject areas required of the applicants for this project Entrants must have a first/undergraduate Honours degree, with an Upper Second Class or a First Class grade, in Communication, Cultural and Media Studies and/or Gender Studies. Entrants with a Lower Second Class grade at first degree must also have a postgraduate Masters Degree at Merit. Panel members who will perform shortlisting Chair: Professor Nahem Yousaf, E-mail Panel member 1: Professor Gill Allwood, E-mail Panel member 2: Dr Stéphanie Genz, stephanie.genz@ntu.ac.uk Panel member 3: Professor Martin O’Shaughnessy, martin.oshaughnessy@ntu.ac.uk Interviews are likely to take place on the following dates: TBC 17/1/2018 to 18/1/2018