Reserachers working on


PLACE-MAKING


(alphabetical order)

Eveline DÜRR
Professor, Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

Administrative areas: New Zealand
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Anthropology of Ontology, Anthropology of Tourism, Colonial Discourse, Cultural Change, Eco-anthropology, Ethnographic Encounter, Globalization, Identity, Indigenous Mobility

Lucie HAZELGROVE PLANEL
PhD Student, Centre for Pacific Studies at University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

Administrative areas: Kiribati, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands
Places: Futuna
Keywords: Textiles / Fibre Arts, Place-making, Techniques, Museums, Material Culture, Heritage, Weaving, Baskets

I-Chang KUO
PhD Student, Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University, Australia

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Mining Labour, Gender, Ethnicity, Inequality, Labour Mobility, Work, Place-making, History, Food and Nutrition, Ethnographic Filmmaking

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

Carlos MONDRAGON
Associate Professor, Centro de Estudios de Asia y África at El Colegio de México, Mexico

Administrative areas: Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Rapanui - Easter Island (Chile), Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Indigenous Epistemology, Climate Change, Climate Policy, Anthropology of Ontology, Cultural Geography, Ecology, First Contacts, History, Horticulture, Knowledge

Michael W. SCOTT
Professor, Anthropology Department at London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

Administrative areas: Solomon Islands
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Anthropology of Ontology, Cosmology, Religion, Wonder, Myth-making, Indigenous Christianities, Place-making, Ethnogenesis, Personhood, Sociality

Borut TELBAN
Professor, Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies at Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, East Sepik (Papua New Guinea)
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Ritual, Personhood, Social Organization, Kinship, Linguistic Anthropology, Social Change, Christianisation, Cosmology, Poetics, Verbal Art