As a result of a generous donation from the Sigrid Rausing Trust, the Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Joseph Bristley as Early-Career Postdoctoral Fellow.
The post runs for four years and Joseph will take up this post in October 2025.
Aside from playing a key role in MIASU's research activities, Joseph will expand his current research on environmental governance as part of a new project entitled 'Accommodating environmental justice in Mongolia'. Rapid anthropogenic climate change poses some of the greatest political and ethical problems of our times. Studying how we live in such a world draws our attention to new understandings of risk and uncertainty. But it also affords novel, and more hopeful, ways of interrogating concepts and practices of environmental justice: understandings of equitable ways to live in ecologically damaged conditions. In this context Joseph's research asks: how are new and rapidly emerging demands for environmental justice recognised by, engaged with, and harnessed within pre-existing systems of environmental governmentality and legal decision-making? Encompassing steppe,forest,and desertregions as well as rapidly expanding conurbations, Mongolia provides an ideal case study for affording insights into rapidly changing perceptions of human-environment relations in the Inner Asian region.