Social Sciences, Heritage and Food (SOCIALPAT)Organisation / Company IPNA-CSIC Department Social Sciences, Heritage and Food (SOCIALPAT) Is the Hosting related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? NoMultispecies & More-than-Human Social ScienceSOCIALPAT Research Group | IPNA-CSIC | Tenerife, Canary Islands, SpainThe Social Sciences, Heritage & Food Research Group ( SOCIALPAT ) at the Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology ( IPNA-CSIC ) invites expressions of interest from outstanding early-career postdoctoral researchers wishing to apply for the forthcomingJuan de la Cierva fellowship of the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) .We are particularly interested in researchers developing ambitious work inmultispecies and more-than-human social science, broadly understood. We welcome candidates from anthropology, human geography, sociology, science and technology studies, environmental humanities, political ecology and related fields whose work examines how humans, animals, environments,



institutions and technologies become entangled in contemporary processes of governance, care and socio-ecological change.The successful candidate would be encouraged to develop anindependent postdoctoral research agenda, while benefiting from close intellectual exchange with SOCIALPAT and the wider interdisciplinary environment of IPNA-CSIC.We particularly welcome projects engaging with one or several of the following areas:multispecies ethnography and more-than-human approaches; Human–animal relations and human–animal studies; Multispecies and animal geographies; Multispecies governance and more-than-human politics; Anthropology of conservation and biodiversity; Political ecology and environmental anthropology; Care, welfare and ethicsin human–animal relations; Rural–urban relations and socio-ecological conflict; Environmental governanceand contested species; Science and Technology Studies and Actor–Network Theory; Veterinary practices andanimal health as social an

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