Call for Applications: PhD Scholarship – Violent Futures? Contestations Along Carbon Frontiers in East Africa

June 8, 2026

Our Subproject B03 “Violent Futures” is currently accepting applications for a PhD scholarship position. The project examines how future-oriented carbon credit projects shape social relations and conflicts in Kenya and Tanzania. To this end, candidates are expected to conduct long-term ethnographic research on conflict constellations in Tanzania and Kenya.

Duration of Scholarship: 41 months
Monthly stipend: 1.475 €
Start date: ideally 1 August 26
Application deadline: 21 June 2026

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