The Fellowship is funded by The Research Council of Norway, and the post-doctoral research fellowship period is for two years.
The successful candidate will join the collaborative effort to address the role of ritual intersections and the law in safeguarding India as a multi-faith society and to augment the visibility of Indian case material in international academic debates on plural societies and cosmopolitanism.
The Indian Cosmopolitan Alternatives project has been running for over two years, and so far most of its research consists of in-depth analyses of ritual spaces, people and communities that defy official religious boundaries. At this stage we are particularly interested in a candidate who can complement the ongoing studies by turning more explicit attention to the role of law. The proposed project may for instance address the role of legal proscription of derogatory speech or insults to religious sentiments, analyze the emergent regulation of public expressions in new media or follow cases in which uneasy conviviality unfolds into transgressions that appear to fall outside the realm of law, such as in contemporary gastropolitics. Other suggestions are also welcome as long as they hold clear relevance to the overall project. More information.