Reserachers working on


DECOLONISATION


(alphabetical order)

Ron ADAMS
Senior Research Fellow, Graduate Research Centre at Victoria University, Australia

Administrative areas: Vanuatu, Tafea (Vanuatu)
Places: Melanesia, Vanuatu
Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Christianisation, Cultural Change, Custom, Colonialism, Decolonisation, Epistemology, Historical Consciousness, History, Memory

Apo APOROSA
Research Fellow, Anthropology Department/School of Psychology at The University of Waikato, New Zealand

Administrative areas: Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, New Zealand
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Development Studies, Education, Kava/Yaqona, Cognition, Health, Applied Anthropology, Community Development, Cultural Studies, Customary Law, Decolonisation

Doris BACALZO
Lecturer, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Lucerne, Switzerland

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, Morobe (Papua New Guinea), Eastern Highlands (Papua New Guinea)
Places: Papua New Guinea
Keywords: Children, Customary Law, Gender, Indigenous Politics, Kinship, Migration, Mining, Political Ecology, Political Economy, Engaged Anthropology

Yacine BENHALIMA
PhD Student, EASTCO at Université de la Polynésie française, French Polynesia

Administrative areas: French Polynesia, New Zealand, Wellington (New Zealand)
Places: French Polynesia, New Caledonia
Keywords: World War II, French Polynesia, French Overseas Territories, Historical Anthropology, Colonialism, Decolonisation, Tahiti, Memory, Biographic Research

A. - [Chris]tina ENGELS-SCHWARZPAUL
Professor, School of Art and Design at Auckland University of Technology - Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau, New Zealand

Administrative areas: New Zealand, Samoa, Hawaii
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Architectural Anthropology, Audiovisual and Media, Performance, Possession, Post-Colonialism, Spatial Theory, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations, Indigenous Epistemology, Decolonisation, Exhibitions

Carolina GALLARINI
PhD Student at University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

Administrative areas: New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Political Anthropology, Art, Anthropological Fieldwork, Decolonisation

Barbara GLOWCZEWSKI
Senior Research Fellow, Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale at CNRS, Collège de France and EHESS, France

Administrative areas: Australia, French Polynesia
Places: Australia (area), Polynesia
Keywords: Agency, Anthropological Fieldwork, Anthropology of Ontology, Audiovisual and Media, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Disaster, Memory, Political Anthropology, Ritual, Sand-Drawing

Karen JACOBS
Associate Professor, Sainsbury Research Unit at University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

Administrative areas: Fiji, Papua (Indonesia)
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Art, Exhibitions, Body, Cultural Artefacts, Decolonisation, Mission History, Tattooing, Youth, Museums, Material Culture

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

Amanda KEARNEY
Professor, Department of Anthropology at San Diego State University, United States

Administrative areas: Australia
Places: Australia (area)
Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Anthropology Of Knowing, Anthropology of Ontology, Applied Anthropology, Colonial Process, Cultural Change, Decolonisation, Indigeneity, Indigenous Knowledge, Politics Of Knowing And Not Knowing

Pefi KINGI
PhD Student at Victoria University, Australia

Administrative areas: Australia, Niue, New Zealand
Places: Polynesia, Australia (area)
Keywords: Climate Change Migration, Community Development, Decolonisation, Development, Ethics, Human Rights, Justice, Language, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Social Change

Michael J. KOCH
Independent researcher at Taku‘ua Service, French Polynesia

Administrative areas: French Polynesia
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Austronesian Languages, Cultural Change, Decolonisation, Ethnicity, French Overseas Territories, Indigenous Politics, Museums, Scenography

Isabelle LEBLIC
Senior Research Fellow, LACITO at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, France

Administrative areas: New Caledonia, French Polynesia
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Children, Cosmology, Cultural Technology, Economic Anthropology, Ethnobotany, Fisheries, Globalization, Indigenous Political Movements, Kinship, Linguistic Anthropology

Katarina MATIASEK
Curator, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at University of Vienna, Austria

Places: Australia (area)
Keywords: Art, Archives, Decolonisation, Interdisciplinarity, Provenance Research, Repatriation, Commemoration

Michael Patrick MORRISSEY
Professor emeritus, The University of the West Indies at Mona Campus, formally Faculty of Education, Jamaica

Administrative areas: French Polynesia
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Historical Imagination, Ethnobotany, Decolonisation, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations, Breadfruit

Adrian MUCKLE
Senior Lecturer, History Programme at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Administrative areas: New Caledonia, New Zealand
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Colonialism, Decolonisation, French Overseas Territories, Violence, Post-Colonialism, History, Colonial Discourse, Commemoration

Giacomo NERICI

Administrative areas: French Polynesia
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Anthropology, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Renewal, Culture-nature Relations, Decolonisation, Epistemology, Ethnic Identity, Identity, Indigeneity, Indigenous Epistemology

Juliane NEUHAUS
Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies at University of Zurich, Switzerland

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia, Australia (area)
Keywords: (Politics Of) Knowledge, Anthropology Of Christianity, Bureaucratization, Customary Law, Decolonisation, Diasporas, Dispute Resolution, Indigenous Epistemology, Law and Culture, Legal Pluralism

Catherine PELLINI
PhD Student, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, France

Administrative areas: New Zealand, Auckland (New Zealand)
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Contemporary Indigenous Art, Decolonisation, Feminism, Gender, Identity, Post-Colonialism, Urban, Visual Anthropology, Art, Biculturalism

Scott ROBERTSON
PhD Student, State, Society and Governance in Melanesia at Australian National University, Australia

Administrative areas: New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Wallis and Futuna
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Colonial Politic, Citizenship, French Overseas Territories, Political Anthropology, Self-Determination, Settler Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, Decolonisation

Samantha ROSE
Adjunct/associate Researcher, School of Arts & Communication at University of Southern Queensland, Australia

Administrative areas: Kiribati
Keywords: Women's Associations, Women's Fellowships, Decolonisation, Informal Education, Community Development

Marie TOUSSAINT
PhD Student, Centre Norbert Elias at EHESS - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France

Administrative areas: New Caledonia
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Anthropology Of Sciences, Applied Anthropology, Conservation, Decolonisation, Environment, Forestry, Political Anthropology, Public Policies, Rural Development, State

Carsten WERGIN
Associate Professor, Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany

Administrative areas: Australia, Western Australia (Australia)
Places: Australia (country), Western Australia
Keywords: Audiovisual and Media, Climate Change, Conflict Management, Conservation, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Culture-nature Relations, Decolonisation, Diasporas, Environmental Anthropology, Global Health