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Reserachers working on SOCIAL CHANGE (alphabetical order)
Barbara Anne ANDERSEN Lecturer, School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University, Albany, New ZealandAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Chimbu (Papua New Guinea), Eastern Highlands (Papua New Guinea)Places: Melanesia, Eastern Highlands, Chimbu, Papua New GuineaKeywords: Development , Education , Health , Social Change , Youth , Class , Biomedicine , Health Workers , Housing , Security
Penner ANGELINA , Bergen Pacific Studies; ECOPAS at University of Bergen, NorwayAdministrative areas: Vanuatu , Papua New Guinea Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Anthropology , Anthropology of Knoweldge , Anthropology of Ontology , Development Studies , Gender Based Violence , Gender , Globalization , Indigenous Knowledge , Kastom , Pacific Studies
John BARKER Professor, Anthropology at University of British Columbia, CanadaAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Art , Christianisation , Christianity , Colonial Imagination , Conservation , Cultural Heritage , Environment , First Contacts , Forestry , Historical Imagination
Bettina BEER Professor, Ethnologisches Seminar at University of Lucerne, SwitzerlandAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Mining , Kinship , Land Dispute , Gender , Senses , Social Change , History
Tom BRATRUD Associate Professor, Department of Social Anthropology at University of Bergen, NorwayAdministrative areas: Malampa (Vanuatu), Shefa (Vanuatu), Vanuatu Places: Melanesia, VanuatuKeywords: Morality , Social Change , Social Organization , Complexity , Politics , Climate Change , Cosmology , Christianity , Sorcery
Jenny BRYANT-TOKALAU Associate Professor, Te Tumu, School of Maori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies at University of Otago, New ZealandAdministrative areas: Fiji Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Climate Change , Conservation , Development , Environment , Land Tenure , Natural Resources , Poverty , Social Change , Urbanization
John BURTON Research Fellow, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining at University of Queensland, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Australia , Solomon Islands , New Caledonia Places: Australia (area), MelanesiaKeywords: Development , Social Change , Social Impact Analysis , Social Mapping , Poverty , Mining , Identity , Social Organization , Population and Development
Domenica Gisella CALABRÒ Lecturer, Gender Studies at University of the South Pacific, FijiAdministrative areas: New Zealand , Fiji Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Identity , Cultural Change , Social Change , Cultural Heritage , Sport , Gender , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations , Indigenous Epistemology , Indigenous Politics , Engaged Anthropology
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
Keith CHAMBERS Administrative areas: Tuvalu Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Local/Folk Classification , Myth , Narratives , Social Change , Anthropological Field Records , Cultural Heritage , First Contacts
Sophie CHAVE-DARTOEN Associate Professor, Anthropology Department / Passagess UMR CNRS 5319 at Université de Bordeaux, FranceAdministrative areas: Wallis and Futuna Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Agency , Categorization , Cognitive Anthropology , Cultural Technology , Kinship , Life-cycle Exchanges , Linguistic Anthropology , Names and Naming , Ritual , Social Change
Julien CLÉMENT Administrative staff, Departement de la Recherche et de l'Enseignement at Musée du quai Branly, FranceAdministrative areas: Samoa , New Zealand Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Body Theory , Subaltern Bodies , Sport , Social Organization , Social Change , Ritual Studies , Religion And The Environment , Polynesian Chiefdoms , Political Anthropology , Perception
Steffen DALSGAARD Associate Professor, Technologies in Practice at IT University of Copenhagen, DenmarkAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Manus (Papua New Guinea)Places: Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Admiralty Islands, Manus province, Mbuke, Lorengau, BaluanKeywords: Democracy , Social Change , Politics , Bureaucratization
Laurent DOUSSET Professor, Ethnologisches Seminar at University of Lucerne, SwitzerlandAdministrative areas: Australia , Vanuatu , Western Australia (Australia), Malampa (Vanuatu), Northern Territory (Australia)Places: Australia (area), Melanesia, Australia (country), Western Australia, Vanuatu, Malakula, Efate, Western DesertKeywords: Uncertainty , Social Organization , Land Management , Social Change , First Contacts , Environment , Digital Resources , Indigenous Politics , Personhood , Sorcery
Eveline DÜRR Professor, Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, GermanyAdministrative areas: New Zealand Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Anthropological Fieldwork , Anthropology of Ontology , Anthropology of Tourism , Colonial Discourse , Cultural Change , Eco-anthropology , Ethnographic Encounter , Globalization , Identity , Indigenous Mobility
Dr Inez FAINGA'A-MANUSIONE Research Fellow, Pathways in Place, Faculty of Education at Griffith University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Australia , Tonga , Samoa Places: Australia (area), PolynesiaKeywords: Holistic Wellness , Decolonization , Cutural Change , Cultural Education , Customary Law , Decolonising Academia , Social Change , Multiculturalism , Youth , Christianity
Yannick FER Research Fellow, Groupe Sociétés religions laïcités at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, FranceAdministrative areas: Cook Islands , French Polynesia , New Zealand Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Christianity , Social Change , Politics , Emotions , Feeling of Belonging , French Overseas Territories , Migration , Morality , Religion , Institution
Sebastien GALLIOT Research Fellow, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, FranceAdministrative areas: Samoa , New Zealand , Tonga , Federated States of Micronesia Places: Micronesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Cultural Technology , First Contacts , Art , Ritual , Social Change
David GLORY Postdoctoral Fellow at CREDO, FranceAdministrative areas: Cook Islands Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Anthropological Fieldwork , Anthropology of Knoweldge , Coastal Erosion , Conservation , Development , Disaster , Environment , Outer Island Development , Resilience And Indigenous Communities , Social Change
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
Karin Louise HERMES PhD Student, American Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin, GermanyAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Hawaii , Indonesia Places: Melanesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Youth , Urban Identity , Social Movement , Social Change , Self-Determination , Nationalism , Migration , Interethnic Relations , Identity , Ethnicity
Graeme HUMBLE Associate Professor, School of Theology at Pacific Adventist University, Papua New GuineaAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Solomon Islands , Australia Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Christianisation , Christianity , Cultural Heritage , Fisheries , Identity , Mission History , Myth , Narratives , Religion , Ritual
Verena KECK Lecturer, Institute of Anthropology, at Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, GermanyAdministrative areas: Guam , Papua New Guinea Places: Melanesia, MicronesiaKeywords: Colonial Discourse , Health , Migration , Personhood , Religion , Social Change , Age and Aging , Identity
Simon KENEMA Postdoctoral Fellow, ADRAS Research Project on Small Scale Mining In Bougainville at Griffith University/ANU, AustraliaKeywords: Anthropological Fieldwork , Anthropology of Knoweldge , Anthropology of Ontology , Dispute Resolution , Indigenous Epistemology , Indigenous Politics , Land Tenure , Mining , Social Change
Pefi KINGI PhD Student at Victoria University, AustraliaAdministrative 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
Gina KOCZBERSKI Senior Research Fellow, Department of Planning and Geography at Curtin University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Agriculture , Migration , Resilience , Social Change , Subsistence Economy , Urbanization , Rural Development
Daniela KRAEMER Lecturer, Department of Anthropology at Wilfrid Laurier University, CanadaAdministrative areas: Vanuatu Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Social Change , Urban , Place Making , Marginalization , Gender
Jari KUPIAINEN Principal lecturer, Media Studies at Karelia University of Applied Sciences, FinlandAdministrative areas: Solomon Islands , Rennell and Bellona (Solomon Islands), Western (Solomon Islands)Places: Melanesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Art , Audiovisual and Media , Agency , Christianisation , Cognitive Anthropology , Colonial Discourse , Complexity , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Cultural Heritage , Cultural Production
Isabelle LEBLIC Senior Research Fellow, LACITO at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, FranceAdministrative areas: New Caledonia , French Polynesia Places: Melanesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Children , Cosmology , Cultural Technology , Economic Anthropology , Ethnobotany , Fisheries , Globalization , Indigenous Political Movements , Kinship , Linguistic Anthropology
Tate LEFEVRE Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology at Franklin and Marshall College, United StatesAdministrative areas: New Caledonia Places: Melanesia, New CaledoniaKeywords: Citizenship , Identity , Nationalism , Post-Colonialism , Politics , Personhood , Social Change , State , Visualization and Representation , Youth
Claire LEVACHER PhD Student, Sociology and Anthropology at EHESS - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, FranceAdministrative areas: New Caledonia Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Development , Governance , Indigenous Politics , Land Management , Mining , Public Policies , Social Change , Social Movement
Lamont LINDSTROM Professor, Anthropology at University of Tulsa, United StatesAdministrative areas: Vanuatu Places: Melanesia, VanuatuKeywords: Intellectual Property Rights , Indigenous Politics , Language Change , Linguistic Anthropology , Migration , Narratives , Personhood , Politics , Religion , Ritual
Esméralda LONGÉPÉE , PhD, Insitute of Littoral and Environnement - LIENSs UMR 7266 at University of La Rochelle, FranceAdministrative areas: Kiribati Places: MicronesiaKeywords: Resilience , Social-ecological System , Natural Hazards , Climate Change , Rural / Urban Atolls , Conceptual Model , Complexity , Natural Resources , Land Tenure , Environment
Oliver LUEB Curator at Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, GermanyKeywords: Agency , Anthropological Fieldwork , Cultural Change , Cultural Renewal , Cultural Transformation , Custom , Identity , Material Culture , Museums , Performance
Michael MAIN PhD Student, School of Culture, History & Language at Australian National University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Cultural Change , Development , Social Change , Violence , Weapons , Mining and its Discontents , Materiality , Language Change , Indigenous Agency , Indigenous Peoples Rights
Anne-Sylvie MALBRANCKE Adjunct/associate Researcher, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at EHESS - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, FranceAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Eastern Highlands (Papua New Guinea)Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Kinship , Social Change , Development , Christianisation , Great-men Societies , Gender Violence
Gwendoline MALOGNE-FER Postdoctoral Fellow, Groupe Sociétés religions laïcité at EPHE/CNRS, FranceAdministrative areas: French Polynesia , New Zealand , Cook Islands Keywords: Religion , Social Change , Migration , Gender , Christianisation , Audiovisual and Media , Mission History
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
Grant MCCALL Other staff, Department of Anthropology at University of Sydney, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Rapanui - Easter Island (Chile) , Fiji , French Polynesia Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Age and Aging , Coconut , Bureaucratization , Colonial Imagination , Cultural Heritage , First Contacts , Identity , Intellectual Property Rights , Inter-ethnic Relations , Kinship
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
Amy K. MCLENNAN Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at University of Oxford, United KingdomAdministrative areas: Australia , Nauru Places: Australia (area), MicronesiaKeywords: Anthropological Field Records , Biomedicine , Social-ecological System , Political Ecology , Narratives , Mining , Interdisciplinarity , Globalization , Health , Food and Nutrition
Anke MOESINGER PhD Student, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Germany at University of Bremen, GermanyAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Solomon Islands Places: Melanesia, Rendova, Lokuru, Polynesia, Bougainville province, Buka, Takuu, Tetepare, MundaKeywords: Climate Change , Natural Resources , Social Change , Political Ecology , Perception , Social Organization , Small-scale Fisheries , Local Ecological Knowledge , Local/folk Taxonomy , Coral Reef Ecology
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
Mark MOSKO Professor, Department of Anthropology at Australian National University, AustraliaPlaces: MelanesiaKeywords: Social Change , Religion , Christianity , Personhood
Yasmine MUSHARBASH Associate Professor, Anthropology at Australian National University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Australia , Northern Territory (Australia)Places: Central Australia, Torres StraitKeywords: Senses , Social Change , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations , Monsters , Settler Colonialism , Human-environment Relations , Multispecies Relations
Gordon NANAU Administrative areas: Solomon Islands , Vanuatu , Fiji , Tonga Places: Melanesia, Polynesia, MicronesiaKeywords: Conflict , Cultural Studies , Development , Education , Gender , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations , Inter-ethnic Relations , Land Tenure , Mining and its Discontents , Natural Resources
Ton OTTO Professor, Department of Anthropology at Aarhus University, DenmarkAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: Papua New GuineaKeywords: Cultural Change , Religious Change , Social Change , Agency
Simonne PAUWELS Research Fellow, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, FranceAdministrative areas: Fiji , Indonesia , Maluku (Indonesia), Nusa Tenggara Timur (Indonesia)Places: Melanesia, Fiji Islands, Lau archipelago, Taveuni, LakebaKeywords: Climate Change , Environment , First Contacts , Fisheries , Gender , Governance , Kinship , Ritual , Social Organization , Social Change
Nicolas PETERSON Professor, School of Archaeology and Anthropology at Australian National University, AustraliaAdministrative areas: Australia Keywords: Economic Anthropology , Social Change , Social Organization , Ritual , Photography , Land Tenure , Native Title , State , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations
Anthony PICKLES Assistant Professor, Department of African Studies at University of Birmingham, United KingdomAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Big-manship , Categorization , Complexity , Conceptual Model , Corruption , Economic Anthropology , Economy and Finance , Exchanges , First Contacts , History
Hans REITHOFER Lecturer, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Goettingen, GermanyAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Christianisation , Development , Engaged Anthropology , Political Ecology , Sorcery , Social Change , Ritual , Religion , Mining , Big-manship
Bernard RIGO Professor, Centre des Nouvelles Etudes sur le Pacifique (EA 4242) at Université de Nouvelle-Calédonie, New CaledoniaAdministrative areas: French Polynesia , New Caledonia Places: Polynesia, MelanesiaKeywords: Gender , Land Tenure , Social Change , Society , Space , Visualization and Representation , Education
Almut SCHNEIDER Contractual researcher, Institue of Ethnology at Goethe University Frankfurt, GermanyAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Western Highlands (Papua New Guinea), Milne Bay (Papua New Guinea)Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Kinship , Social Change , Ritual , Exchanges , Social Organization , Land Tenure , Gender , Life-cycle Exchanges , Plant Domestication , Social-ecological System
Tobias SCHWOERER Senior Lecturer, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Lucerne, SwitzerlandAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , Eastern Highlands (Papua New Guinea), Morobe (Papua New Guinea)Places: Papua New GuineaKeywords: Conflict , Colonial Discourse , Social Change , State , Sorcery , Regional History , Mining , Land Dispute , Forestry , First Contacts
Gunter SENFT Professor, Language and Cognition at MPI for Psycholinguistics, NetherlandsAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: Melanesia, Micronesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Cultural Heritage , Death and Bereavement , Development , Emotions , Landscape , Linguistic Anthropology , Navigation , Perception , Poetics , Ritual
Christophe SERRA-MALLOL Associate Professor, ISTHIA at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, FranceAdministrative areas: French Polynesia , New Caledonia , Rapanui - Easter Island (Chile) , Vanuatu , Wallis and Futuna Places: Polynesia, MelanesiaKeywords: Food and Nutrition , Gender , Identity , Globalization , Sex Workers , Social Change
Rachel SHAH PhD Student, Department of Anthropology at Durham University, United KingdomAdministrative areas: Indonesia Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Anthropological Field Records , Children , Cultural Studies , Development , Education , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations , Social Change , Sustainability
Martin SOUKUP Associate Professor, Institute of Communication at Charles University, Czech RepublicAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: MelanesiaKeywords: First Contacts , Sustainability , Social Change , Conservation , Audiovisual and Media , Visualization and Representation
Monika STERN Research Fellow, CREM (Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie)-LESC (Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative); associée au CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, FranceAdministrative areas: Vanuatu Places: Melanesia, VanuatuKeywords: Anthropological Field Records , Art , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Digital Resources , Exchanges , Identity , Intellectual Property Rights , Social Change , Youth , Music
Ivo Soeren SYNDICUS PhD Student, Department of Anthropology at Maynooth University, IrelandAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Higher Education , Education , Social Studies of Knowledge , Social Differentiation , Development , Law and Culture , Social Change , Personhood , Indigenous Politics , Identity
Borut TELBAN Professor, Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies at Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, SloveniaAdministrative areas: Papua New Guinea , East Sepik (Papua New Guinea)Places: MelanesiaKeywords: Ritual , Personhood , Social Organization , Kinship , Linguistic Anthropology , Social Change , Christianisation , Cosmology , Poetics , Verbal Art
Toon VAN MEIJL Professor, Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies - Dept. of Anthropology and Development Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, NetherlandsAdministrative areas: New Zealand , Fiji , Hawaii , Tonga Places: PolynesiaKeywords: Anti-colonial , Climate Change , Colonial Discourse , Colonial Imagination , Corporations , Cultural Heritage , Identity , Indigenous Politics , Intellectual Property Rights , Land Dispute
Gilles VIDAL Lecturer, Institut Protestant de Théologie at Faculté de Montpellier, FranceAdministrative areas: New Caledonia , French Polynesia Places: Melanesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Mission History , Ritual Studies , Social Change , Religion , French Overseas Territories
Stephanie WALDA-MANDEL Curator at Linden-Museum Stuttgart, GermanyAdministrative areas: Palau , Guam Places: Micronesia, Australia (area), Melanesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Identity , Migration , Museums , Diasporas , Social Change
Elisabeth WORLICZEK Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Global Change and Sustainability at University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), AustriaAdministrative areas: New Caledonia , Wallis and Futuna , French Polynesia , Papua New Guinea , Vanuatu Places: Melanesia, PolynesiaKeywords: Climate Change , Climate Change Migration , Coastal Erosion , Cultural Change , Disaster , Interdisciplinarity , Migration , Mining and its Discontents , Natural Hazards , Social Change
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