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| Yacine Benhalima
Contractual researcher
EASTCO
Université de la Polynésie française (French Polynesia)
Website(s):
[ http://piroguefusil.hypotheses.org ]
I speak in the following language(s): French, English, Spanish, Moroccan Arabic
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About |
Dr Yacine Benhalima is a historian who specializes in war history and its political, diplomatic and (post)colonial ramifications in the contemporary French-speaking Pacific, with an emphasis in Tahiti and French Polynesia (19th and 20th centuries). He holds a PhD from the University of French Polynesia and the Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) since November 2025 ; his thesis, prepared in a cotutelle registration, relates to the Free French in Tahiti and French Polynesia during the Second World War (1940-1947). |
Specialities |
World War II, French Polynesia, French Overseas Territories, Historical Anthropology, Colonialism, Decolonisation, Tahiti, Memory, Biographic Research, History, Second World War, Commemoration |
Discipline(s) |
History
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Member of |
Australian Association for Pacific Studies (AAPS)  Pacific History Association (PHA) e-toile Pacifique (e-toile) Société des Océanistes (SdO) |
Geographic administrative areas |
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Geographic places |
French Polynesia
New Caledonia
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Historical periods |
First and Early contacts
The Colonial time
20th century
21st century
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Indigenous languages |
French, English, Spanish |
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Experiences |
PhD Research (2021 to 2025)
— Université de la Polynésie Française
Thesis title : "France libre et Français libres dans les Établissements Français d’Océanie (1940-1947). Une histoire de la résistance des marges dans l’espace Pacifique". Public defence held in Tahiti on 3 November 2025.Teaching Experiences (2025 to 2026)
— Université de la Polynésie Française
Teaching French history in the 19th and 20th centuries, Pacific and Oceania history, cinema history and methodology / historiography / epistemology classes |
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