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Postdoc Meat Culture: Popular Representations of Meat Consumption in the 19th and 20th Centuries - University of Amsterdam The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) currently has a vacant Postdoc researcher position as part of the "Re-authoring Meat Consumption Narratives" project. ASH is one of the five Research Schools within the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR). What are you going to do? "Re-authoring Meat Consumption Narratives" is a team-based collaborative project that is part of the University of Amsterdam's Healthy Future Research Priority Area. The project combines historical, cultural and public health perspectives and seeks to appoint two Postdoctoral Fellows for the duration of one year; one postdoc will be based at the Faculty of Humanities and one within Public Health/Anthropology. Reducing meat intake has clear and undisputed benefits for climate, population health and animal welfare. However, implementing such reductions is challenging. Eating meat is deeply embedded in people's diets, anchored in cultural values, meanings, and shared conventions that contribute to what is believed to be healthy, tasty, or sustaining food. For many people it is hard to imagine a predominantly plant-based diet becoming the norm. New narratives that respect historic, cultural, economic, health and social values around people's diets and the role of meat in particular, can aid this transition. This project is focused on efforts to influence citizens' dietary perspectives and narratives as bottom-up driver of food environment change, focused on meat consumption as a key impactful element. "Re-authoring meat consumption narratives" brings together researchers from the Humanities, Social and Behavioural and Medical faculties to explore multifaceted dimensions of meat consumption through an interdisciplinary lens. It combines historical, cultural, and public health perspectives to understand the evolving narrati...
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Contact: Dr Samuël Kruizinga | Tel: +31205257733 | Email: [email removed]
