PhD in Geography

PhD position on rural residents’ engagements with hyperscale data centers and promised infrastructural integration – Subproject: Fiji./nThe Sociology of Development and Change (SDC) Group at Wageningen University & Research invites applicants for a fully salaried PhD position in the NWO-Vidi funded project ‘Sprawling Servers.’ The project investigates rural residents’ encounters with the promises for development that surround hyperscale data centers and related data infrastructures such as undersea cables, focusing on embedding in broader experiences with rural revitalization and infrastructural development initiatives. The project is based on comparative ethnographic research across Fiji, Brazil, and the Netherlands. The successful candidate will be based at Wageningen University, conduct twelve months of in-depth ethnographic fieldwork in Fiji, and be affiliated also with the School of People, Environment, and Planning, Massey University, New Zealand as a secondary affiliation./nLocation: Wageningen, Netherlands.