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[Mitoo Das]

*POSTITIONS AVAILABLE*

The Cultural and Material life of Media Piracy is a three year project 
carried out by the Sarai programme of the CSDS in collaboration with the 
Alternative Law Forum Bangalore. We begin with the premise that piracy 
is widespread in places where a media-saturated modernity meets severe 
inequalities of purchasing power for books, software, recordings, videos 
and other knowledge products. One of the key aims of this research 
project will be to understand this media environment as it unfolds 
itself in diverse contexts.  The main research node is in India with 
comparative work in China and Pakistan. The Sarai-ALF teams of 
researchers work in tandem with an international project on media piracy 
with fellow researchers in Brazil, South Africa and Russia. The larger 
study is coordinated by the SSRC (New York).

The project seeks to open different debates on piracy other than simply 
that of enforcement and criminality. Through research, we hope to 
generate discussions of cultural needs, community practices of sharing 
and circulation in societies of high inequality. We will also look at 
media industry approaches to piracy and enforcement strategies. In 
addition, there will be ethnographic and quantitative work on media use 
in neighbourhoods. The study of piracy offers a unique vantage point to 
study the media environment, through the sites of media and its movement 
across limits set by law, the complexity of user-bases, and the 
diversity of cultural delivery platforms.

We are looking for bright, energetic and qualified researchers who can 
work in collaboration with a regional and international team. Applicants 
must demonstrate abilities to research and write on the subject.  A 
familiarity with the debate on piracy and the creative commons is 
preferable. *Social science and Humanities applicants should have 
completed post graduate degrees and law students- a four year programme.
*

*Researcher One: Delhi*
The researcher will be looking at fieldwork material on media piracy in 
the Sarai archive, as well as conduct neighbourhood surveys slate to 
begin in 2009. Work will include research papers presentations and 
collaborative work with the team.

*Researcher Two: Mumbai*
The researcher will be looking at the range of piracy strategies pursued 
by media industries in the film and music sectors. Research will span 
the larger media companies as well as the smaller companies. Work will 
include research papers presentations and collaborative work with the 
team. Applicants from outside Mumbai are also welcome to apply for this 
position, although Mumbai based work will be significant.
 
Remuneration will be *Rs 28000/ a month*.  Interested applicants may 
send their *CV* and a written research sample to *researchjobs at sarai.net 
by September 20, 2008*. *
Applications without a written research sample will not be entertained.
*

Links
SSRC piracy project: http://programs.ssrc.org/ccit/ip/
Sarai, CSDS : 
http://www.sarai.net/research/knowledge-culture/knowledge-and-culture
ALF: www.altlawforum.org

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