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

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