PHD Position on Populist Speech in EU Parliamentary Committees @ Employer

Go to the homepage of Grow at the University of Amsterdam Are you interested in how political disagreement and the tone of debate has changed in EU committees? Would you like to engage in qualitative research into the rise of populism at the end of the 20 th century, and develop your skills as an independent researcher? In this PhD position you will work in an interdisciplinary team studying changes in the sound of political disagreement over the last two centuries. PhD position on populist speech in EU parliamentary committees 1980 - 2000 Are you interested in how political disagreement and the tone of debate has changed in EU committees? Would you like to engage in qualitative research into the rise of populism at the end of the 20 th century, and develop your skills as an independent researcher? In this PhD position you will work in an interdisciplinary team studying changes in the sound of political disagreement over the last two centuries. PhD position on populist speech in EU parliamentary committees 1980 - 2000 - Faculty of Humanities Growing at the UvA Political speech and the sound of disagreement Currently, we seem to observe a rise in the polarization of political opinion, accompanied by a hardening of the tone of political discourse and decreased mutual understanding between different ideological 'bubbles'. Our project, The Sound of Disagreement: Embodied Histories of Political Speech 1800-present , seeks to historicize this (perceived) recent culture war, and to draw attention to the development and co-existence of different modes of disagreement in the past two centuries. The team will study how different groups of newcomers to political speech (be they women, working class activists or populist representatives) navigated the challenges of making themselves heard without being perceived as excessive or intrusive. We analyse how political actors managed disagreement at a practical level, how they articula...