Social Media coordinator – Association for Borderlands Studies

The Association for Borderlands Studies is looking for a Social Media coordinator to help manage its social media presence. Under the supervision of the Board of Directors, the Social Media coordinator will be tasked with writing social media posts (in both English and Spanish); creating visuals; executing the social media strategy prepared by the Board; and engaging with ABS community on its platform (respond to comments and/or direct message; share members’ posts; etc.). See the flyers below for details:

Deadline to apply: May 25, 23:59 PT

If you have any questions about this opportunity, please contact us through absborderlands@gmail.com

Endowed Professorship for Migration, Internal Border Regimes, and Bureaucracy f/m/d

University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten (Austria)

For more details and to apply, visit https://academicpositions.com/employer/st-polten-university-applied-sciences 

Migration Time: 15 PhD positions across Europe

Several universities in Finland, Türkiye, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands

For more details and to apply, visit https://migrationtime.eu/phd-positions

Doctoral Studentship

The Department of Geography and Environment at Loughborough University is inviting applications for a Doctoral Studentship to start in October 2026.

“Why and how are some lives depicted and positioned as expendable while others are deemed not just worth protecting but also of exemplary treatments?” is the question that broadly drives this project given the starkly differentiated regards for human lives and rights on a planetary scale. While existing scholarship offers an answer, it fails to differentiate between the expendable and the exemplary lives; instead, it dilutes both within the same framework of the exception primarily inspired by Giorgio Agamben’s reding of the state, sovereignty, biopolitics, and the exception (1998, 2005). Read accordingly, although the example operates on a similar assumption but in the opposite manner, has remained unexamined in political geography and other cognate disciplines. The project stems from such observations that “the sovereign’s power is manifested not only via the production of a state of exception but also equally through the creation of a state of example” hence, remains underpinned by the production of both a homo sacer and a homo exemplar (Ferdoush, 2025, p. 1). It aims to pursue one overarching goal which is to answer: Why, where, how, on whom, and for how long does the sovereign decide to display its power of the example?”

For more details and to apply, visit https://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research-degrees/phd-opportunities/geoex-example-within-exception/

Applications due: 15 June 2026