Kiribati
The World Factbook: Background: :: The Gilbert Islands became a British protectorate in 1892 and a colony in 1915; they were captured by the Japanese in the Pacific War in 1941. The islands of Makin and Tarawa were the sites of major US amphibious victories over entrenched Japanese garrisons in 1943. The Gilbert Islands were granted self-rule by the UK in 1971 and complete independence in 1979 under the new name of Kiribati. The US relinquished all claims to the sparsely inhabited Phoenix and Line Island...read more [Source: The World Factbook ] Wikipedia: Kiribati ([kɪribas] KIRR-i-bas[4] or ˌkɪrəˈbɑdi;[5] Gilbertese: [ˈkiɾibas]), officially the Independent and Sovereign Republic of Kiribati[19], is an island nation in the central tropical Pacific Ocean. The permanent population is just over 100,000 (2011) on 800 square kilometres (310 sq mi).[6] The nation is composed of 32 atolls and one raised coral island, Banaba, dispersed over 3.5 million square kilometres, (1,351,000 square miles) straddling the equato...read more [Source: Wikipedia ]
Expertise (alphabetical order)
Petra Maria AUTIO Postdoctoral Fellow, Social and cultural anthropology at University of Helsinki, FinlandKeywords: Social Organization , Dance , Custom , Kinship , Narratives , Social Differentiation , Language Ideology , Migration , Resilience , Colonial Discourse
Ruci Mafi BOTEI PhD Student, Oceania Centre for Arts, Culture & Pacific Studies at University of the South Pacific, FijiKeywords: Agency , Culture-nature Relations , Customary Law , Cutural Change , Epistemology , Pacific Regional Politics , Pacific Studies , World Heritage
Guigone CAMUS Independent researcher, University of French Polynesia, FranceKeywords: Cosmology , Myth , Land Tenure , History , Environment , Climate Change , Diasporas , Conflict , Christianisation , Art
Ali CLARK Curator, Department of World Cultures at National Museums Scotland, United KingdomKeywords: Art , Climate Change , Climate Change Migration , Colonialism , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Custom , Cultural Change , Exhibitions , Material Culture , Museums
John COX Research Fellow, Institute for Human Security and Social Change at La Trobe University, AustraliaKeywords: Christianity , Citizenship , Class , Climate Change , Cultural Change , Democracy , Development , Development Media , Economic Anthropology , Economy and Finance
Anne DI PIAZZA Research Fellow, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, FranceKeywords: Migration , Navigation
Sue FARRAN Professor, Law at Newcastle University, United KingdomKeywords: Customary Law , Gender , Land Tenure , Neo-Colonialism , Post-Colonialism , Sustainability , Development , Children , Legal Pluralism
Sargam GOUNDAR PhD Student, School of Geography at University of Otago, New ZealandKeywords: Climate Change Migration , Pacific Studies , Sustainable Development , Perceptions , Geography , Livelihoods , Mobilities And Immobilities , Displacement , Planned Relocation
Wolfgang KEMPF Lecturer, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Goettingen, GermanyKeywords: Climate Change , Christianity , Diasporas , Biographic Research , Memory , Religion , Performance , Migration , Power and Resistance
Lea Lani KINIKINI Independent researcher, Pacific Community at EU PacTVET project, TongaKeywords: Resilience , Indigenous Knowledge , Forced Migration , Subaltern Bodies , Māui Genealogies , Body Theory , Coconut Oil , Race , Settlerhood
Silja KLEPP Professor, Institute of Geography at Kiel University, GermanyKeywords: Climate Change , Colonial Discourse , Cutural Change , Eco-anthropology , Environment , Epistemology , Governance , Labour Mobility , Legal Pluralism , Neo-Colonialism
Guillaume LE PORT Independent researcher, Centre de Recherches Insulaires et Observatoire de l'Environnement at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, French PolynesiaKeywords: Climate Change , Conservation , Ecology , Fisheries , French Overseas Territories , Marine Biodiversity , Natural Hazards , Social-ecological System , Tourism , Coastal Erosion
David LEEMING PhD Student, Department of Social Sciences at Wageningen University, NetherlandsKeywords: Social Studies of Knowledge , Social Representations , Cultural Studies , Communication , Cultural Education , ICT In Education , Participatory Media , New Media And ICTD , Anthropology , Discourse Analysis
Esméralda LONGÉPÉE , PhD, Insitute of Littoral and Environnement - LIENSs UMR 7266 at University of La Rochelle, FranceKeywords: Resilience , Social-ecological System , Natural Hazards , Climate Change , Rural / Urban Atolls , Conceptual Model , Complexity , Natural Resources , Land Tenure , Environment
John Joseph MCCAFFERY Research Fellow, Faculty of Education, University of Auckland at Uniservices Consultancy Ltd, New ZealandKeywords: Education , Education Policy , Language Policy , Language Shift , Language-Culture-Cognition , Polynesian Languages , Pacific Studies , Language , Literacy , Bilingual/Immersion Education
Patrick NUNN Professor, Sustainability Research Centre at University of the Sunshine Coast, AustraliaKeywords: Climate Change , Coastal Erosion , Cultural Change , Human Ecology , Indigenous Knowledge , Kava , Landscape , Myth , Religion And The Environment , Sustainable Development
Bryony ONCIUL Senior Lecturer, Department of History at University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Károly Sándor PALLAI Research Fellow, Department of French and Francophone Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, HungaryKeywords: Contemporary Literatures , Francophone Literatures , Identity , Postcolonial Literatures , French Overseas Territories , Post-Colonialism , Narratives , Literature , Cultural Studies , Colonial Imagination
Alice SERVY Associate Professor, SAGE Sociétés, Acteurs, Gouvernement en Europe at University of Strasbourg, FranceKeywords: Health , Sexuality , Gender , Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) , Family Planning , Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) , Sex Workers , Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM) , Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) , Sexual Assaults
Foale SIMON Senior Lecturer, College of Arts, Society and Education at James Cook University, AustraliaKeywords: Political Ecology , Political Economy , Small-scale Fisheries , Social Impact Analysis , Marine Biodiversity , Logging , Land Tenure , Epistemology , Environment , Ethnobotany
Roy SMITH Senior Lecturer, Dept of International Studies at Nottingham Trent University, United KingdomKeywords: Citizenship , Climate Change , Conflict , Diasporas , Disaster , Environment , Food and Nutrition , Globalization , Migration , Nuclear Issues
Katerina TEAIWA Senior Lecturer, HoD of Gender, Media and Cultural Studies at Australian National University, AustraliaKeywords: Phosphate , Dance , Mining and its Discontents , Landscape , Cultural Studies , Cultural Transformation , Resilience , Environment , Pacific Studies as Field of Study , Globalization
Frank THOMAS Senior Lecturer, Pacific Studies, Oceania Centre for Arts, Culture & Pacific Studies at University of the South Pacific, FijiKeywords: Anthropological Fieldwork , Archaeobotany , Austronesian Prehistory , Cultural Heritage , Cultural Landscapes , Development Studies , Ethnobiology , Heritage Management , Landscape , Local Ecological Knowledge
Michael WALSH , Center for Australian, New Zealand, and Pacific Studies at Georgetown University, United States
Harald WERBER Lecturer, Department of History at University of Salzburg, Austria
Margaretha WEWERINKE-SINGH Lecturer, School of Law at University of the South Pacific, VanuatuKeywords: Climate Change , Human Right To A Healthy Environment , Human Rights , Human Rights And Environmental Studies , Climate Change Migration , Climate Policy , Intergenerational Equity , International Relationships , Statehood , Sustainable Development
Dariusz ZDZIECH Adjunct/associate Researcher, President at Australia, New Zealand and Oceania Research Association, PolandKeywords: Christianisation , Citizenship , Coconut , Development , Food and Nutrition , First Contacts , Governance , History , Identity , Library
Official Websites UNESCO - Phoenix Islands Protected Area... Ministry of Finance and Economic Developme... Kiribati Climate Change (Office of the Pre...
Libraries and Archives Kiribati Campus Library of the University ... Kiribati National Library and Archives... Kiribati Parliamentary Library...
Museum Collections American Museum of Natural History... Australian Museum... Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum...
Health and Health Research Commonwealth Health Online... Institut of Health Metrics and Evaluation... Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS...
Languages
List of languages More on Glottolog More on Ethnologue Recordings at Paradisec