Light My Theory Bulb
If you read this blog, what makes a good job or postdoc ad? Thinking of a sociology department for example, what would you respond to?
Attracting Theory Talent
Retheorizing Sociology …an incisive and creative theorist whose engagement with the tradition of sociological theory and analysis is informed by poststructural and other contemporary debates such as discussions of embodiment and sexualities as well as the rise of virtual socialities….
Metropolitan Theory … critical theorist of cultural relations at the multiple scales embodied in the suburb, metropolis and globalized society. This may include an interest in global peripheries and the relation of margins to centres informed by debates around sexualities, cosmopolitics, urban and material cultures.
Sociology of Intermedia and Everyday Life… theorist of virtualities and everyday life informed by post-structural and continental understandings of these terms …Department is committed to maintaining a cutting edge Intermedia Research Studio. …interest are not limited to online and digital cultures but include the critical sociology of new media objects, branding.
What lights your theory bulb?
April 9th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
Desperation on the part of rapacious and recent PhDs, alas, ensures that your attempt to lure interesting candidates will disappear beneath the mere fact that IT IS A JOB! I wonder if academic departments ever hire who/what they advertise for anyway? I’d love to believe your ideas for the job ads but, I mean, when you have selection committees with split opinions, who don’t have time to really check out the work of candidates, and candidates so desperate they may be better ACTORS than academics … who wins in the end?
Call me a jaded old cynic … Okay, I’d go for the first one. I’m available from June 30th.
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:28 am
My bulb is immediately illuminated by the third one…but as I was in the middle of screwing said lightbulb in, the word “continental” made me drop it and it is now smashed pathetically on the floor - I guess it’s too much to hope that the “continental” was referring to a free breakfast?
July 12th, 2006 at 12:05 pm
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