Discipline
Sociology
Methodology
Ethnography, qualitative research, multi-species ethnography
Date
01 Oct 2024
Description
This project critically examines the complex, more-than-human politics of assisted restoration and adaptation in the Great Barrier Reef as governments, international agencies, scientists, Traditional Owners, communities and others experiment with ways to enhance the capacity of coral and other Reef to survive and adapt to life under climate change. Focussing on a specific reef adaptation or restoration issue or practice, students will engage in creative research approaches to understand the various actors and agencies that are enhanced or suppressed in the pursuit of particular ecological, social and economic outcomes, and consider how technologically assisted Reef adaptation might better enable forms of justice, care and social inclusion. The PhD scholar will join a multi-institutional team of social scientists from the Cairns Institute at JCU committed to working with and for people of the tropics to create brighter, more equitable and enriching futures for all.
Keywords
science and technology studies;biopolitics;climate adaption;Great Barrier Reef
Would Suit Applicants Who
Have a Masters, Honours degree or equivalent in the social sciences and motivation to make a meaningful differences to communities and ecosystems of the Great Barrier Reef and other ecosystems.