Doctoral student (M/F) in contemporary History - “Moving Images and Representations of Rural Life in Europe from the 20th Century to the Present”

id="offer-description" class="ecl-u-type-heading-2 ecl-u-mt-none ecl-u-mb-l">Offer Description General information about the job offer . Publication date: 10/10/2026 . Name of scientific manager: Lynch Edouard . Type of contract: Doctoral contract . Contract duration: 36 months . Thesis start date: 01/01/2027 . Working hours: Full time . Remuneration: €2,300 gross per month . Workplace: Université Lumière Lyon 2 – Campus Berges du Rhône / 16 avenue Berthelot 69007 . Laboratory of affiliation: Laboratoire d’Études Rurales . Doctoral school: ED 483 . Languages spoken: English . Frequency of travel : . frequent (national and international) . Driving license required: NO. Description of thesis topic . Scientific and Socio‑Economic Stakes of the Doctoral Project . The doctoral project is embedded within the Horizon Europe project “Ruralitic”, led by INRAE (coordinated by Gilles Laferté at CESAER). This project adopts a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective to reassess contemporary transformations of rural spaces in Europe in an era marked by increasingly multilocalized household trajectories, both diachronically and synchronically. The core premise of the programme is that, under the effect of increased mobilities and circulations, Europe is evolving toward a new social geography that less sharply distinguishes rural from urban areas than it does spaces associated with upper social classes from those associated with working‑class groups. Consequently, growing urban heterog