Reserachers working on


DISASTER STUDIES


(alphabetical order)

Mumtaz ALAM
Associate Professor, Social Sciences at Fiji National University, Fiji

Administrative areas: Fiji
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Colonial Discourse, Medical History, Social History, Girmit History, Cultural Studies, Decolonization, Disaster Studies, Environmental History, Ethnic Identity, Global History

Chris BALLARD
Associate Professor, Pacific and Asian History at Australian National University, Australia

Administrative areas: Vanuatu, Shefa (Vanuatu), New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Eastern Highlands (Papua New Guinea), Southern Highlands (Papua New Guinea), New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), Morobe (Papua New Guinea), Western (Papua New Guinea)
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Colonial Imagination, Cultural Heritage, Historical Consciousness, Landscape, Narratives, Historical Imagination, First Contacts, Climate Change, Disaster Studies, Drawing

Maëlle CALANDRA
Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratoire Magmas et volcans (UMR CNRS 6524; UMR IRD 163) at International Research Centre of Disaster Science and Sustainable Development , France

Administrative areas: Vanuatu, French Polynesia
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Disaster, Forced Displacement, Disaster Studies, Human-environment Relations, Environmental Migrations, Humanitarian Aid, Post-catastrophe Reconstruction

Brunna CRESPI
Independent researcher, UMR 208 PALOC at MNHN, IRD, CNRS, France

Administrative areas: Indonesia, French Polynesia
Places: Polynesia, Melanesia, Australia (area)
Keywords: Applied Anthropology, Anti-colonial, Climate Change, Comparative Studies, Culture-nature Relations, Development Studies, Disaster Studies, Eco-anthropology, Engaged Anthropology, Environmental Anthropology

Valentina FAJRELDIN
Assistant Professor, Instituto de Salud Poblacional Dr. Salvador Allende, Facultad de Medicina at Universidad de Chile, Chile

Administrative areas: Rapanui - Easter Island (Chile), New Zealand
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: (Politics Of) Knowledge, Anthropological Fieldwork, Anthropology Of Care, Anthropology Of Sciences, Applied Anthropology, Anti-colonial, Anthropology Of Knowledge, Anthropology Of Policy, Autoethnography, Biomedicine