Reserachers working on


CONFLICT


(alphabetical order)

Niko BESNIER
Professor, Anthropology at Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands

Administrative areas: Tuvalu, Tonga, Wallis and Futuna, American Samoa, Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Gender, Sexuality, Globalization, Body Theory, Food and Nutrition, Sport, Morality, Christianity, Conflict, Economic Anthropology

Guigone CAMUS
Independent researcher, University of French Polynesia, France

Administrative areas: Kiribati, Hawaii, New Caledonia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Wallis and Futuna
Places: Micronesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Cosmology, Myth, Land Tenure, History, Environment, Climate Change, Diasporas, Conflict, Christianisation, Art

Sina EMDE
Lecturer, Social Anthropology at Leipzig University, Germany

Administrative areas: Fiji
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Gender, Nationalism, Identity, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), State, Security, Political Process, Personhood, Post-Colonialism, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations

Darja HOENIGMAN
Lecturer, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University, Australia

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, East Sepik (Papua New Guinea)
Places: Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, East Sepik province, Karawari/Arafundi, Kanjimei, Meakambut
Keywords: Linguistic Anthropology, Ethnographic Filmmaking, Conflict, Myth, Secret Languages, Spirit Possession, Verbal Art, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Language Registers, Tok Pisin

Karolina KANIA
Assistant Professor, Department of Strategy at Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic

Administrative areas: New Caledonia, Sud (New Caledonia)
Places: Melanesia, New Caledonia, Iles des Pins
Keywords: Tourism, Indigenous Tourism, Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relations, Indigenous Agency, Indigenous Economies, Indigenous Political Movements, Inter-ethnic Relations, Land Management, Land Ownership, Decolonisation

Matthias KOWASCH
Professor, Laboratoire Médiations at Sorbonne University, France

Administrative areas: New Caledonia, Vanuatu
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Conflict, Development, Education, Governance, Indigenous Political Movements, Identity, Land Tenure, Mining, Post-Colonialism, Political Ecology

Régis LAFARGUE

Administrative areas: New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna, French Polynesia
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Conflict, Ecology, French Overseas Territories, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations, Land Dispute, Land Tenure, Law and Culture, Legal Pluralism, Intellectual Property Rights, Dispute Resolution

Pierre-Yves LE MEUR
Senior Research Fellow, SENS (Savoirs Environnement Sociétés) at IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France

Administrative areas: New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Wallis and Futuna
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Political Anthropology, Mining, Conflict, Environment, Applied Anthropology, Natural Resources, Place-making, Sovereignty

Fiona Elisabeth MCCORMACK
Senior Lecturer, Anthropology, School of Social Sciences at University of Waikato, New Zealand

Administrative areas: Hawaii, New Zealand
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Class, Conflict, Customary Law, Economic Anthropology, Economy and Finance, Environment, Fisheries, Globalization, Governance, Indigenous Politics

Gordon NANAU

Administrative areas: Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Tonga
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia
Keywords: Conflict, Cultural Studies, Development, Education, Gender, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations, Inter-ethnic Relations, Land Tenure, Mining and its Discontents, Natural Resources

Mélissa NAYRAL
Lecturer, LISST - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire, Solidarités, Sociétés, Territoires - CAS Centre d'anthropologie Sociale at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France

Administrative areas: New Caledonia
Places: Melanesia, New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands
Keywords: Conflict, Conservation, Development, Gender, Governance, Indigenous Politics, Land Tenure, Natural Resources, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Politics

Julia RATZMANN
Other staff, Pacific Information Desk at Centre for Mission, Partnership and Development, Germany

Administrative areas: Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Post-Colonialism, Christianisation, Conflict, French Overseas Territories, Land Dispute, Logging, Mining, Museums, Nuclear Issues, Tourism

Elizabeth RECHNIEWSKI
Adjunct/associate Researcher, School of Languages and Cultures at University of Sydney, Australia

Administrative areas: New Caledonia, Australia
Places: Australia (area)
Keywords: Conflict, Memory, Commemoration, Historical Imagination, Colonial Discourse

Richard SCAGLION
Professor, Department of Anthropology at University of Pittsburgh, United States

Administrative areas: Australia, Galapagos (Ecuador), Hawaii, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Conflict, Law and Culture, Ecology, Complexity

Dominik SCHIEDER
Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences at University of Siegen, Germany

Administrative areas: Fiji, Samoa
Places: Fiji Islands, Samoa
Keywords: Migration, Social Organization, Agency, Applied Anthropology, Class, Colonial Discourse, Colonial Imagination, Colonialism, Complexity, Conflict

Tobias SCHWOERER
Senior Lecturer, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Lucerne, Switzerland

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, Eastern Highlands (Papua New Guinea), Morobe (Papua New Guinea)
Places: Papua New Guinea
Keywords: Conflict, Colonial Discourse, Social Change, State, Sorcery, Regional History, Mining, Land Dispute, Forestry, First Contacts

Roy SMITH
Senior Lecturer, Dept of International Studies at Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom

Administrative areas: Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Palau, Tuvalu
Places: Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Citizenship, Climate Change, Conflict, Diasporas, Disaster, Environment, Food and Nutrition, Globalization, Migration, Nuclear Issues

Frank WEIGELT
Senior Lecturer, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Hamburg, Germany

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Indonesia, New Caledonia
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Agency, Applied Anthropology, Class, Colonial Discourse, Cognitive Anthropology, Colonialism, Conflict, Conflict Management, Cultural Change, Cultural Heritage