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| Toon van Meijl
Professor
Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies - Dept. of Anthropology and Development Studies
Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands)
Website(s):
[ http://www.ru.nl/caos/vm/meijl/ ]
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About |
Toon van Meijl is a cultural anthropologist with expertise in the Pacific region, the New Zealand Maori especially. At present, his research focuses on socio-political questions emerging from the debate about property rights of indigenous peoples and on issues of cultural identity and the self, in particular of young people in a globalising context. |
Specialities |
Anti-colonial, Climate Change, Colonial Discourse, Colonial Imagination, Corporations, Cultural Heritage, Identity, Indigenous Politics, Intellectual Property Rights, Land Dispute, Migration, Natural Resources, Neo-Colonialism, Personhood, Post-Colonialism, Politics, Social Change, Youth |
Discipline(s) |
Anthropology
History
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Member of |
European Society for Oceanists (ESfO)  Australian Association for Pacific Studies (AAPS) Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO) New Zealand Studies Association (NZSA) |
Geographic administrative areas |
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Geographic places |
Polynesia
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Historical periods |
First and Early contacts
The Colonial time
20th century
21st century
Anticipatory
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Indigenous languages |
Maori |
Experiences |
PhD Research (1987 to 1991)
PhD Research Scholar — Australian National UniversityAcademic Position (1993 to 1998)
(Senior) Research Fellow — Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesAcademic Position (1999 to 2003)
Assistant Professor — Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies, Radboud UniversityAcademic Position (2003 to 2011)
Associate Professor — Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies, Radboud UniversityAcademic Position (2011 to present)
Full Professor — Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies, Radboud University |
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