The University of Bremen has an opening of one full-time research position (postdoctoral) at the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS) within the Department of Social Sciences (FB 08) to work on a research project entitled Isomorphism or Context African Police between Global Expectations and Local Dynamics.
Subject to the approval of the University, the position, which is based on a two-year contract with a possible extension, is to be filled as soon as possible. The project will investigate state police forces in selected African countries in order to see how these institutions react to global and local pressure. By comparing four African countries we would like to establish whether organizational structures, discourses, practices and the professional habitus of police forces have changed in a similar direction: Is there a tendency towards isomorphism in African police forces, or are they rather shaped by local contexts and dynamics?
The successful candidate will work on police forces in two African countries. The cases of Uganda and Rwanda have already been chosen by another collaborator in the project, and the selection of the two other cases depends on the knowledge and research experience of the postdoctoral researcher.
The project is part of the Priority Program “Adaptation and Creativity in Africa. Technologies and Significations in the Production of Order and Disorder” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
