Job: Pophistory of Decline: Promotions- oder Post-Doc-Stelle am IfZ
Pophistory of Decline
Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ, Munich-Berlin)
Bewerbungsschluss 31.03.2023
Dauer: 3 Jahre
The Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ, Munich-Berlin) has been announcing a research position (either doc or post-doc) in the research project Confronting Decline. Challenges of Deindustrialization in Western Societies since the 1970s.
The three-year position at the Leibniz Institute is devoted to research on the interrelations of deindustrialization and popular culture.
The project will be developed within a framework of different regional and thematic topics such as:
dispositives of industrial decline in popular culture
a research perspective on both production and consumption
contradictory narratives of deindustrialization from classic working songs to Singer-Songwriter ecological movement to Industrial to (Post)Punk to HipHop
graphic novels and fashion design, retrofuturistic industrial romanticism (steampunk)
self-reflective formats of change in TV series
movies, computer games, and television series producing post-apocalyptic “rust belt” imagery
narratives of the decline of the middle classes within those genres
the rise of populist movements in times of decline
comparative perspectives on different countries or regions
structural change from material culture to “immaterial” sharing economy
the reshaping of post-industrial spaces through “creative industries” and festivals
historiographical work with archival documents from creative industries, media collections, union archives, social data
Affinity to historiographical, archive-based research and/or a degree in contemporary history is welcome (deadline: March 31, 2023).
More information can be found here (in German): https://pophistory.hypotheses.org/4075