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Reserachers working on CUSTOMARY LAW (alphabetical order)
Apo APOROSA Research Fellow, Anthropology Department/School of Psychology at The University of Waikato, New ZealandAdministrative areas: Fiji , Samoa , Tonga , Vanuatu , New Zealand Places: Melanesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Development Studies , Education , Kava/Yaqona , Cognition , Health , Applied Anthropology , Community Development , Cultural Studies , Customary Law , Decolonisation
Doris BACALZO Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Morobe (Papua New Guinea), Eastern Highlands (Papua New Guinea)Places: Papua New GuineaKeywords: Children , Customary Law , Gender , Indigenous Politics , Kinship , Migration , Mining , Political Ecology , Political Economy , Engaged Anthropology
Ola Gunhildrud BERTA Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of social anthropology at University of Bergen, NorwayAdministrative areas: Marshall Islands Places: MicronesiaKeywords: Kinship , Christianity , Cultural Change , Custom , Customary Law , Economic Anthropology , Land Ownership , Law and Culture , Mission History , Political Anthropology
Ruci Mafi BOTEI PhD Student, Oceania Centre for Arts, Culture & Pacific Studies at University of the South Pacific, FijiAdministrative areas: Australia , Fiji , Kiribati , Solomon Islands , Tonga , Vanuatu , Marshall Islands Places: Melanesia, Micronesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Agency , Culture-nature Relations , Customary Law , Cutural Change , Epistemology , Pacific Regional Politics , Pacific Studies , World Heritage
Annette BRECKWOLDT Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Sciences, Social-Ecological Systems Analysis at Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), GermanyAdministrative areas: Hawaii , Fiji Places: Fiji Islands, Hawai'i (US State)Keywords: Customary Law , Ecology , Interdisciplinarity , Marine Biodiversity , Natural Resources , Oceans , Perception , Seascape , Small-scale Fisheries , Social-ecological System
Jennifer CORRIN Professor, Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law at T C Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Fiji , Kiribati , New Caledonia , Niue , Nauru , Papua New Guinea , Samoa , Solomon Islands , Tokelau , Tonga , Tuvalu , Vanuatu , Australia Places: Australia (area), Melanesia, Micronesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Customary Law , Legal Pluralism , Law and Culture , Human Rights , Dispute Resolution , Land Tenure
Carine DAVID Associate Professor, LARJE (Research Centre on Economics and Law) at Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, New CaledoniaAdministrative areas: New Caledonia , Australia , Fiji , Vanuatu , French Polynesia Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Climate Change Migration , Colonial Politic , Customary Law , Elections , Environment , Environmental Jurisprudence of Supreme Courts , France’s Charter For The Environment , Human Right To A Healthy Environment , Institution , Intergenerational Equity
Kirsten Davies DAVIES Lecturer, Dept of Environmental Sciences & Law School at Macquarie University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Sanma (Vanuatu), Vanuatu , Australia Places: Australia (area), Melanesia, Vanuatu, New South WalesKeywords: Social-ecological System , Population and Development , Culture-nature Relations , Customary Law , Climate Change , Cultural Change , Ecology , Higher Education , Heritage Management , Governance
Christian DÖHLER (DOEHLER) Postdoctoral Fellow at Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, GermanyAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Western (Papua New Guinea)Places: Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Western Province (Fly)Keywords: Environment , Language Documentation , Language Change , Language Shift , Language Socialization , Language-Culture-Cognition , Linguistic Anthropology , Linguistic Description , Myth , Music and Languages
Sue FARRAN Professor, Law at Northumbria University, United KingdomAdministrative areas: Vanuatu , Pitcairn Islands , Cook Islands , Federated States of Micronesia , Fiji , Kiribati , Nauru , Niue , Samoa , Solomon Islands , Tokelau , Tonga , Tuvalu , Marshall Islands Keywords: Customary Law , Gender , Land Tenure , Neo-Colonialism , Post-Colonialism , Sustainability , Development , Children , Legal Pluralism
Miranda FORSYTH Research Fellow, SSGM at Australian National University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Fiji , Vanuatu Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Cultural Heritage , Development , Intellectual Property Rights , Sorcery , Customary Law , Legal Pluralism , Conflict Management , Non-state Justice System
Kun-hui KU Associate Professor, Institute of Anthropology at National Tsing Hua University, TaiwanKeywords: Anthropological Fieldwork , Borneo , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Customary Law , Democracy , Ethnicity , Indigenous Political Movements , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations , Law and Culture , Leadership
Régis LAFARGUE Administrative areas: New Caledonia , Wallis and Futuna , French Polynesia Places: Melanesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Conflict , Ecology , French Overseas Territories , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations , Land Dispute , Land Tenure , Law and Culture , Legal Pluralism , Intellectual Property Rights , Dispute Resolution
Peter LINDENMANN , SwitzerlandAdministrative areas: New Caledonia Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Bureaucratization , Citizenship , Customary Law , Democracy , State , Statehood , Political Anthropology , Public Services , Settler Colonialism
David LIPSET Professor at University of Minnesota, United StatesAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Body , Canoes , Class , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Cosmology , Customary Law , Masculinities , Mortuary Rites , Personhood , Mobile Telephony
Allison LOTTI Independent researcher, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie. at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, FranceAdministrative areas: Wallis and Futuna , New Caledonia Places: Polynesia, MelanesiaKeywords: Customary Law , Identity , Colonial Politic , Overseas Territories
Carol Elizabeth MAYER Administrative areas: Australia , Cook Islands , Federated States of Micronesia , Fiji , Kiribati , New Zealand , Papua New Guinea , Samoa , Solomon Islands , Vanuatu Places: Melanesia, Micronesia, Australia (area), PolynesiaKeywords: Anthropology of Knoweldge , Climate Change , Colonial Discourse , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Cultural Heritage , Customary Law , Worldview , Visual Anthropology , Tapa , Sustainable Development
Fiona Elisabeth MCCORMACK Senior Lecturer, Anthropology, School of Social Sciences at University of Waikato, New ZealandAdministrative areas: Hawaii , New Zealand Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Class , Conflict , Customary Law , Economic Anthropology , Economy and Finance , Environment , Fisheries , Globalization , Governance , Indigenous Politics
Rebecca MONSON Senior Lecturer, ANU College of Law at Australian National University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Solomon Islands , Australia , Vanuatu , Papua New Guinea Places: Melanesia, Solomon Islands, Marovo Lagoon, New Georgia, GuadalcanalKeywords: Sociolegal , Legal Geography , Cultural Geography , Customary Law , Gender , Land Tenure , Legal Pluralism , Political Ecology , Post-Colonialism , Settler Colonialism
Diego MUÑOZ Postdoctoral Fellow, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich at Social and Cultural Anthropology, GermanyAdministrative areas: Rapanui - Easter Island (Chile) , French Polynesia Places: Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Polynesia, Chili, French Polynesia, Gambier Islands, Society IslandsKeywords: Kinship , Land Dispute , Law and Culture , Migration , Regional History , Social Change , Social Organization , Tourism , Cultural Change , Diasporas
Franca TAMISARI Associate Professor, Dept. of Humanities at Ca' Foscari University of Vencie, ItalyAdministrative areas: Australia , Northern Territory (Australia)Places: Australia (area), Arnhem Land, Milingimbi, Galuwin'ku, Ramingining, GapuwiyakKeywords: Cosmology , Dance , Education , Gender , Indigenous Politics , Kinship , Language , Ceremonial discourse , Tourism , Ritual
Margaretha WEWERINKE-SINGH Lecturer, School of Law at University of the South Pacific, VanuatuAdministrative areas: Cook Islands , Federated States of Micronesia , Fiji , Kiribati , Marshall Islands , Nauru , Niue , Palau , Samoa , Solomon Islands , Tokelau , Tonga , Tuvalu , Vanuatu Places: Melanesia, Micronesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Climate Change , Human Right To A Healthy Environment , Human Rights , Human Rights And Environmental Studies , Climate Change Migration , Climate Policy , Intergenerational Equity , International Relationships , Statehood , Sustainable Development
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