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Reserachers working on COLONIALISM (alphabetical order)
Ron ADAMS Senior Research Fellow, Graduate Research Centre at Victoria University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Vanuatu , Tafea (Vanuatu)Places: Melanesia, VanuatuKeywords: Anthropological Fieldwork , Christianisation , Cultural Change , Custom , Colonialism , Decolonisation , Epistemology , Historical Consciousness , History , Memory
Sémir AL WARDI Associate Professor, Laboratoire Gouvernance et Développement Insulaire at Université de la Polynésie française, French PolynesiaAdministrative areas: French Polynesia Places: Polynesia, MelanesiaKeywords: Colonialism , Democracy , Foreign Policy , French Overseas Territories , Governance , Indigenous Politics , Pacific Regional Politics , Political Culture
Doris BACALZO Lecturer, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Lucerne, SwitzerlandAdministrative 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
Joshua A. BELL Curator, National Museum of Natural History at Smithsonian Institution, United StatesAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Hawaii Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Materiality , Material Culture , Logging , Natural Resource Exploitation , Cultural Transformation , Colonialism , Visual Anthropology , Mobile Telephony , Museums , Historical Consciousness
Yacine BENHALIMA PhD Student, EASTCO at Université de la Polynésie française, French PolynesiaAdministrative areas: French Polynesia , New Zealand , Wellington (New Zealand)Places: French Polynesia, New CaledoniaKeywords: World War II , French Polynesia , French Overseas Territories , Historical Anthropology , Colonialism , Decolonisation , Tahiti , Memory , Biographic Research
Rainer F. BUSCHMANN Professor, History at California State University Channel Islands, United StatesAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: Melanesia, Micronesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Anthropological Fieldwork , Colonial Discourse , Colonial Imagination , Colonialism , Ethnographic Encounter , Historical Consciousness , Historical Imagination , History , Knowledge , Museums
Laurence Marshall CARUCCI Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Montana State University, United StatesAdministrative areas: Marshall Islands Places: Marshall IslandsKeywords: Adoption , Age and Aging , Anthropological Fieldwork , Body , Christianity , Climate Change , Climate Change Migration , Colonial Discourse , Colonial Literature , Colonialism
Mathias CHAUCHAT Professor, LARJE (Research Centre on Economics and Law) at Université de Nouvelle-Calédonie, New CaledoniaKeywords: Colonial Politic , Colonialism , Corruption , Development Studies , French Overseas Territories , Mining , Pacific Studies , Politics , Political Process , Political Economy
Ali CLARK Curator, Department of World Cultures at National Museums Scotland, United KingdomAdministrative areas: Australia , Kiribati , Marshall Islands Places: Australia (area), Melanesia, MicronesiaKeywords: Art , Climate Change , Climate Change Migration , Colonialism , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Custom , Cultural Change , Exhibitions , Material Culture , Museums
Kasia Renae COOK Independent researcher, The Samoa Historical and Cultural Trust, SamoaAdministrative areas: American Samoa , Australia , Tonga , New Zealand , Samoa Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Colonialism , Identity , Feeling of Belonging , Cultural Heritage , Race / Racism , Inter-racial Relations , Emigration , Racial Mobility
Michael Barry DAVIS Independent researcher, Sydney Environment Institute at Sydney University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Australia , New Zealand , Solomon Islands Places: Australia (area)Keywords: Colonial Discourse , Colonial Imagination , Colonialism , Cultural Heritage , Cultural Studies , Environment , Ethics , Ethnographic Encounter , Fisheries , First Contacts
Fabiana DIMPFLMEIER Research Fellow, DILASS at 'Gabriele d'Annunzio' University of Chieti-Pescara, ItalyAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Australia Places: Queensland, MelanesiaKeywords: Anthropology , Anthropological Field Records , Archives , Colonialism , Inter-racial Relations , Nationalism , New Guinea , Pacific Studies , Post-Colonialism , History Of Anthropology
Holger DROESSLER Associate Professor, Humanities & Arts at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United StatesAdministrative areas: American Samoa , Samoa Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Colonialism , Labor Migration
Yannick ESSERTEL Contractual researcher, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, FranceAdministrative areas: New Zealand , Wallis and Futuna , New Caledonia , Papua New Guinea , Hawaii , Samoa , Tonga Places: Polynesia, Melanesia, MicronesiaKeywords: Christianisation , Conceptual Model , Colonialism , Missiology , Indigenous Christianities
Patricia FIFITA Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management at University of Hawai'i-Manoa, United StatesAdministrative areas: Tonga , New Zealand , Solomon Islands , Hawaii , American Samoa , Guam Places: Polynesia, Melanesia, MicronesiaKeywords: Medical Anthropology , Ethnobotany , Indigenous Epistemology , Colonialism , Biomedicine , Gender , Non Communicable Diseases , Political Economy , Traditional Ecological Knowledge , Climate Change
Eleanor FOSTER PhD Student, Department of social anthropology at University of Cambridge, United KingdomAdministrative areas: Australia Places: Australia (area)Keywords: Material Culture , Museums , Colonialism , History Of Anthropology , Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relations , Indigenous Epistemology , Museum Collections
Enzo HAMEL PhD Student, Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at University of East Anglia, United KingdomAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , East Sepik (Papua New Guinea)Places: Papua New Guinea, East Sepik provinceKeywords: Archives , Anthropology of Knoweldge , Anthropological Field Records , Colonial Discourse , Colonialism , Contemporary Pacific , Critical History , Cultural Heritage , Cutural Change , Ethnographic Encounter
Courtney HANDMAN Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology at University of Texas at Austin, United StatesAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Morobe (Papua New Guinea)Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Christianity , Christianisation , Colonial Discourse , Colonialism , Communication , Language Policy , Language Ideology , Linguistic Anthropology , Mission History , Pacific Media
Katharina Wilhelmina HASLWANTER PhD Student, Ethnographic Museum at University of Zurich, SwitzerlandAdministrative areas: Indonesia , Papua (Indonesia)Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Material Culture , Colonialism , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations , Exchanges , Social Change , Technology , Museums , Visualization and Representation
Garrett HILLYER PhD Student, Department of History at University of Hawai'i-Manoa, United StatesAdministrative areas: Samoa , American Samoa , Hawaii , New Zealand , Auckland (New Zealand), Manu'a (American Samoa)Places: American Samoa, Samoa, Hawai'i (US State), New ZealandKeywords: Food and Nutrition , Food History , Global History , Globalization , Oceanic Historicities , Orality And Oral Traditions , Deep Past , Ethnographic History , Colonialism , Resistance
Edwin JONES PhD Student, Centre for Pacific Studies at University of St. Andrews, United KingdomAdministrative areas: Fiji Keywords: Christianity , Citizenship , Colonialism , Intellectual Property Rights , Kava , Land Dispute , Names and Naming , Oral Tradition , Poetics , Political Economy
Magdalena KITTELMANN PhD Student, Institute of the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), GermanyAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Medical Anthropology , Christianisation , Colonialism
Francesco LATTANZI PhD Student, Dipartimento di Storia Antropologia Religione Arte e Spettacolo at Sapienza Università di Roma, ItalyAdministrative areas: French Polynesia , New Caledonia Places: Melanesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Colonialism , Ethnographic Encounter , Heritage , Indigeneity , Material Culture , Memory , Oceanic Historicities , Orality , Seascapes , Secrecy
Jacqueline LECKIE Associate Professor, Anthropology and Archaeology at University of Otago, New ZealandAdministrative areas: Fiji , New Zealand Places: Melanesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Medical Anthropology , Colonialism , Migration , Agency , Diasporas , Ethnicity , Gender , History , Identity , Pacific Studies
Claudia LEDDERUCCI Contractual researcher, Culture, Politica e Società at Università degli Studi di Torino, ItalyAdministrative areas: French Polynesia , New Caledonia Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Island Studies , Anthropological Fieldwork , Citizenship , Colonial Discourse , Colonialism , Contemporary Pacific , Militarism
Carol MACLENNAN Professor, Social Sciences at Michigan Technological University, United StatesAdministrative areas: Hawaii Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Agriculture , Colonialism , Cultural Landscapes , Natural Resource Exploitation , Political Ecology , Water Resources
Jo MIDDLETON Senior Research Fellow, Sussex Sustainability Research Programme; Dept. Primary Care and Public Health, and NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Neglected Tropical Diseases at University of Sussex; Brighton and Sussex Medical School, United KingdomAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Solomon Islands Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Conservation , Biomedicine , Colonialism , Ecology , Ethnobotany , Global Health , Logging , Medical Anthropology , Medical Research , New Guinea
Denis MONNERIE Professor emeritus, Laboratoire LinCS UMR 7069 CNRS Université de Strasbourg at Université de Strasbourg, FranceAdministrative areas: New Caledonia , Solomon Islands Keywords: Kinship , Language , Ceremonial discourse , Names and Naming , Performance , Political Anthropology , Resilience , Ritual Studies , Social Change , Society
Julia MORRIS Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Wilmington, United StatesAdministrative areas: Nauru , Australia Places: MicronesiaKeywords: Migration And Im/Mobility , Resource Extraction , Colonialism
Adrian MUCKLE Senior Lecturer, History Programme at Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandAdministrative areas: New Caledonia , New Zealand Places: Melanesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Colonialism , Decolonisation , French Overseas Territories , Violence , Post-Colonialism , History , Colonial Discourse , Commemoration
Hermann MUECKLER Professor, Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Vienna, AustriaAdministrative areas: Fiji , Papua New Guinea , Samoa , Rapanui - Easter Island (Chile) , Hawaii , Marshall Islands Places: Melanesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Historical Imagination , Mission History , Post-Colonialism , Neo-Colonialism , Colonialism , Conflict Management , Cultural Studies , History , Material Culture , Peace And Conflict
Robert NICOLE Research Fellow, Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies at University of Canterbury, New ZealandAdministrative areas: Fiji Places: Melanesia, Fiji Islands, Bau, Taveuni, Vanua Levu, Viti LevuKeywords: Agency , Archaeology , Archives , Class, Race, Gender , Colonialism , Diplomacy , Indigenous Movements , Literature , Oral History , Peace And Conflict
Jude PHILP Curator, Macleay Museum at Sydney University Museums, AustraliaPlaces: Torres Strait, Western Province (Fly), National Capital District, CentralKeywords: Agency , Christianity , Colonialism , Cultural Heritage , Culture-nature Relations , History , Indigenous Christianities , Mission History , Museums , Photography
Max QUANCHI Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences at University of the South Pacific, FijiAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Fiji , Solomon Islands , Vanuatu , Australia , New Caledonia Places: Australia (area), MelanesiaKeywords: Colonialism , First Contacts , Pacific Studies as Field of Study , Photography , Visualization and Representation
L. Michael RATNAPALAN at Yonsei University, Korea, Republic ofKeywords: Christianity , Anthropology , Literature , Mission History , Missiology , Colonialism
Hélena REGIUS Independent researcherAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Christianisation , Colonialism , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Cultural Heritage , Custom , Indigenous Christianities , Material Culture , Missiology , Museums , Textiles / Fibre Arts
Amiria SALMOND Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology at University of Auckland, New ZealandAdministrative areas: New Zealand , Gisborne (New Zealand)Places: Polynesia, MicronesiaKeywords: Anthropology of Ontology , Colonialism , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Cultural Transformation , Digital Resources , First Contacts , Intellectual Property Rights , Kinship , Law and Culture , Museums
Dominik SCHIEDER Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences at University of Siegen, GermanyAdministrative areas: Fiji , Samoa Places: Fiji Islands, SamoaKeywords: Migration , Social Organization , Agency , Applied Anthropology , Class , Colonial Discourse , Colonial Imagination , Colonialism , Complexity , Conflict
Suzanne SPUNNER Research Fellow, Indigenous Studies Unit, Centre for Health Equity at The Univeristy of Melbourne, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Australia Places: Australia (area)Keywords: Agency , Art , Archives , Colonialism , Cultural Heritage , Exhibitions , Indigenous Agency , Intellectual Property Rights , Memory , Oral History
Adrian TANNER Professor emeritus, Department of Anthropology at Memorial University, CanadaAdministrative areas: Fiji , Eastern (Fiji)Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork , Colonialism , Domestic Space , Horticulture , Land Tenure , Myth , Native Title , Regional History , Ritual , Subsistence Economy
Tamatoa TEPUHIARII PhD Student, Institute of Geography at University of Hamburg, GermanyAdministrative areas: French Polynesia Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Activism , Anthropological Fieldwork , Colonialism , Decolonization , Gender , Indigenization , Nuclear Testing , Nuclear Issues , Pacific Studies , Resilience
Upolu Luma VAAI Senior Lecturer, HoD Theology and Ethics Department at Pacific Theological College, FijiAdministrative areas: Fiji , Samoa , American Samoa , Tokelau , Solomon Islands , Papua New Guinea , Vanuatu , Kiribati , Tuvalu , Cook Islands Places: Polynesia, MelanesiaKeywords: Christianity , Pacific Relational Hermeneutics , Relational Theology , Relational Ethics , Pacific Epistemology , Climate Change , Colonialism , Economy And Justice
Frank WEIGELT Senior Lecturer, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Hamburg, GermanyAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Vanuatu , Indonesia , New Caledonia Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Agency , Applied Anthropology , Class , Colonial Discourse , Cognitive Anthropology , Colonialism , Conflict , Conflict Management , Cultural Change , Cultural Heritage
Alexandra (Sandra) WIDMER Assistant Professor, Anthropolgy Dept at York University, CanadaAdministrative areas: Vanuatu Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Colonialism , Food and Nutrition , Gender , Health , Medical Anthropology , Metabolic Disorders , Modernity , Post-Colonialism , Nursing And Midwifery , Reproduction
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