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The World Factbook: Background: :: Settled by both Britain and France during the first half of the 19th century, the island became a French possession in 1853. It served as a penal colony for four decades after 1864. Agitation for independence during the 1980s and early 1990s ended in the 1998 Noumea Accord, which over a period of 15 to 20 years will transfer an increasing amount of governing responsibility from France to New Caledonia. The agreement also commits France to conduct a referendum between 20...read more [Source: The World Factbook] Wikipedia: Coordinates: 21°15′S 165°18′E / 21.25°S 165.30°E / -21.25; 165.30 New Caledonia (French: Nouvelle-Calédonie)[nb 1] is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, 1,210 kilometres (750 mi) east of Australia and 16,136 kilometres (10,026 mi) east of Metropolitan France.[5] The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Chesterfield Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle...read more [Source: Wikipedia]

Expertise (alphabetical order)

Julie ADAMS
Senior Research Fellow, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Keywords: Museums, Material Culture, Art, Anthropological Fieldwork

Frederic ANGLEVIEL
Professor, liberal historian and consultancy at University of New Caledonia, New Caledonia

Keywords: Christianisation, Colonialism, Cultural Change, Cultural Heritage, First Contacts, French Overseas Territories, Politics, Polynesian Chiefdoms

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

Keywords: Colonial Imagination, Cultural Heritage, Historical Consciousness, Landscape, Narratives, Historical Imagination, First Contacts, Climate Change, Disaster Studies, Drawing

Antonia BAUMANN
Independent researcher, Switzerland

Keywords: Cultural Heritage, Ethnobotany

Niko BESNIER
Professor, Anthropology at Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands

Keywords: Gender, Sexuality, Globalization, Body Theory, Food and Nutrition, Sport, Morality, Christianity, Conflict, Economic Anthropology

Séverine BOUARD
Research Fellow, Axe III "Nouvelles ruralités et destin commun" at Institut Agronomique néo-Calédonien, New Caledonia

Keywords: Agriculture, Development, Indigenous Political Movements, Land Tenure, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Post-Colonialism, Sustainability, Sociology of Public Action

Dominik BRETTEVILLE
Independent researcher

Keywords: Kinship, Ritual, Language, Ceremonial discourse

John BURTON
Research Fellow, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining at University of Queensland, Australia

Keywords: Development, Social Change, Social Impact Analysis, Social Mapping, Poverty, Mining, Identity, Social Organization, Population and Development

Guigone CAMUS
Independent researcher, University of French Polynesia, France

Keywords: Cosmology, Myth, Land Tenure, History, Environment, Climate Change, Diasporas, Conflict, Christianisation, Art

Greta Maria CAPECE
PhD Student at Università degli studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy

Benoît CARTERON
Lecturer, Espaces et Sociétés - UMR 6590 at Université d'Angers, France

Keywords: Identity, Nationalism, Inter-ethnic Relations

Francoise CAYROL
Research Fellow, Cnep Pacific's New Studies Center at University of New Caledonia, New Caledonia

Eric CLUA
Independent researcher, Délégation de l'Etat à la Recherche et Technologie at Ministry of Scientific Research, France

Keywords: Cultural Heritage, Ecology, Environment, Fisheries, Marine Biodiversity, Shark in Culture, Eco-anthropology, Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Claire COLOMBEL
Lecturer, Kanak & Pasifika department at IFMNC - CNEP, New Caledonia

Keywords: Bilingualism And Schooling, Education, Linguistic Description, Literacy, Social Studies of Knowledge, Semantics-Pragmatics

Roberta COLOMBO DOUGOUD
Curator, Oceania Departement at Musée d'ethnographie de Genève, Switzerland

Keywords: Anthropology, Art, Exhibitions, Museums, Material Culture, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Cultural Change, Post-Colonialism

Jennifer CORRIN
Professor, Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law at T C Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland, Australia

Keywords: Customary Law, Legal Pluralism, Law and Culture, Human Rights, Dispute Resolution, Land Tenure

Kathryn CREELY
Librarian/Archivist, Tuzin Archive for Melanesian Anthropology at University of California San Diego, United States

Keywords: Digital Resources, Anthropological Field Records, Photography

Paul D'ARCY
Associate Professor, Department of Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University, Australia

Keywords: Climate Change, Agency, Anthropology, Conflict Resolution, Coral Reefs, Cultural Geography, Development Studies, Fisheries, Food History, History

Anne-Marie D'HAUTESERRE
Senior Lecturer, Geography, Tourism and Environmental Planning at University of Waikato, New Zealand

Keywords: Cultural Studies, Development, French Overseas Territories, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations, Post-Colonialism, Tourism

Marlène DÉGREMONT
PhD Student, Gouvernance, Risque, Environnement, Développement GRED (UMR 220) at IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, New Caledonia

Keywords: Conservation, Marine Biodiversity, Governance, Environment, Public Policies, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Globalization, Applied Anthropology, Cultural Heritage, Culture-nature Relations

SERGE DUNIS
Independent researcher, retired University Professor at University of the French Pacific, French Polynesia

Keywords: Myth, Pre-European Settlement, Genetics, Archaeology, Prehistory

Greg DVORAK
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Culture and Communication Studies at Waseda University, Japan

Keywords: Post-Colonialism, Self-Determination, World War II, Art, Climate Change, Cultural Studies, Critical History, Commemoration, Gender, Sexuality

Jeremy ELLERO
Adjunct/associate Researcher, Department of Economics and Law at University of New Caledonia, New Caledonia

Keywords: Regional Integration, Regionalism, Regional Organisations, Sub-regionalism, French Overseas Territories

Yannick ESSERTEL
Contractual researcher, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, France

Keywords: Christianisation, Conceptual Model, Colonialism, Missiology, Indigenous Christianities

Elsa FAUGERE
Research Fellow, Ecodevelopment at French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), France

Keywords: Anthropology of Knoweldge, Economic Anthropology, Environment, Exchanges, Anthropological Fieldwork, Anthropology Of Sciences

Viviane FAYAUD
Independent researcher, Centre d'histoire des sociétés, des sciences et des conflits at Université de Picardie Jules-Verne, France

Keywords: Art, Cultural Studies, Visualization and Representation, Photography, Nationalism, Memorial Diplomacy, Media And National Identity, Imagology, Drawing, Feeling of Belonging

Julia FRENGS
Associate Professor, Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States

Keywords: Cultural Studies, Cultural Production, Decolonization, Disaster, Ecology, Feminism, French Polynesia, French Overseas Territories, Francophone Literatures, Gender

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

Keywords: Political Anthropology, Art, Anthropological Fieldwork, Decolonisation

Matteo GALLO
Associate Professor, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Université d'Aix-Marseille, France

Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Youth, Political Culture, Memory, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Centers, Colonial Imagination, Audiovisual and Media, Witchcraft, Music

Odile GANNIER
Professor, Département de Lettres modernes/ CTEL at Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France

Keywords: Colonial Imagination, Colonial Literature, Cultural Studies, Francophone Literatures, Imagology, Literature, Navigation, Post-Colonialism, Voyaging, Marine Biodiversity

Stéphanie GENEIX-RABAULT
Independent researcher, Academie des Langues Kanak, CNEP-Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et LACITO-CNRS at Université de Nouvelle-Calédonie, New Caledonia

Keywords: Music, Nursery Lore And Children's Folklore, Music and Languages, Dance, Song / Dance, Organology

Lara GIORDANA
Independent researcher, Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società at University of Turin, Italy

Keywords: Creativity, Environment, Gardens, Landscape, Place, Personhood, Sociality, Relatedness

Sargam GOUNDAR
PhD Student, School of Geography at University of Otago, New Zealand

Keywords: Climate Change Migration, Pacific Studies, Sustainable Development, Perceptions, Geography, Sustainable Livelihoods

Stéphanie GRAFF
Lecturer, LARJE (Research Centre on Economics and Law) at Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, New Caledonia

Keywords: Political Anthropology, Decolonisation, Self-Determination, Indigenous Peoples Rights, Colonialism, Engaged Anthropology, French Overseas Territories, Neo-Colonialism, Politics, Regional Organisations

juliette KON KAM KING
PhD Student, UMR SENS (Savoirs, Environnement et Sociétés / Knowledge, Environment and Societies); Social Sciences Department at IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement; Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3; University of Bremen, France

Keywords: Sustainability, Social Studies of Knowledge, Natural Resources, Marine Biodiversity, Fisheries

Matthias KOWASCH
Professor, Institute of Secondary Teacher Education at University College of Teacher Education Styria, Austria

Keywords: Conflict, Development, Education, Governance, Indigenous Political Movements, Identity, Land Tenure, Mining, Post-Colonialism, Political Ecology

Fabienne LABBÉ
Research Fellow, Section Infectious Diseases and Immunization at Quebec Institute of Public Health, Canada

Keywords: Health, Sexuality, Gender, Ilness Experience, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), Medical Anthropology, Applied Anthropology, Engaged Anthropology, Emotions

Francesco LATTANZI
PhD Student, Dipartimento di Storia Antropologia Religione Arte e Spettacolo at Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy

Keywords: Colonialism, Ethnographic Encounter, Heritage, Indigeneity, Material Culture, Memory, Oceanic Historicities, Orality, Seascapes, Secrecy

Pierre-Yves LE MEUR
Senior Research Fellow, SENS (Savoirs Environnement Sociétés) at IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France

Keywords: Political Anthropology, Mining, Conflict, Environment, Applied Anthropology, Natural Resources, Place-making, Sovereignty

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

Keywords: Children, Cosmology, Cultural Technology, Economic Anthropology, Ethnobotany, Fisheries, Globalization, Indigenous Political Movements, Kinship, Linguistic Anthropology

Claudia LEDDERUCCI
PhD Student, Culture, Politica e Società at Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

Keywords: Island Studies, Anthropological Fieldwork, Citizenship, Colonial Discourse, Colonialism, Contemporary Pacific, Militarism

Tate LEFEVRE
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology at Franklin and Marshall College, United States

Keywords: 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, France

Keywords: Development, Governance, Indigenous Politics, Land Management, Mining, Public Policies, Social Change, Social Movement

Allison LOTTI
Independent researcher, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie. at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, France

Keywords: Customary Law, Identity, Colonial Politic, Overseas Territories

Anaïs MAURER
Assistant Professor, Visiting, French and Italian at Colby Collge, United States

Keywords: Colonial Politic, Postcolonial Literatures, Nuclear Issues, Nationalism, Colonial Imagination, Contemporary Literatures, Decolonisation, Ecology, Ethnicity, Feminism

John Joseph MCCAFFERY
Research Fellow, Faculty of Education, University of Auckland at Uniservices Consultancy Ltd, New Zealand

Keywords: Education, Education Policy, Language Policy, Language Shift, Language-Culture-Cognition, Polynesian Languages, Pacific Studies, Language, Literacy, Bilingual/Immersion Education

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

Keywords: Youth, Work, Employment, Social Differentiation, Training Formation, Mining Labour, Nationhood, Masculinities, Kinship, Prison

Sarah MOHAMED-GAILLARD
Senior Lecturer, Département Asie du Sud-est, Haute-Asie, Pacifique at INALCO, France

Keywords: History, Politics, Regional History, Nationalism, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations, International Relationships

Hamid MOKADDEM
Independent researcher, IFMNC at IFMNC, New Caledonia

Keywords: Anthropology of Ontology, Race / Racism, Esthetic

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

Keywords: Indigenous Epistemology, Climate Change, Climate Policy, Anthropology of Ontology, Cultural Geography, Ecology, First Contacts, History, Horticulture, Knowledge

Denis MONNERIE
Professor emeritus, Laboratoire LinCS UMR 7069 CNRS Université de Strasbourg at Université de Strasbourg, France

Keywords: Kinship, Language, Ceremonial discourse, Names and Naming, Performance, Political Anthropology, Resilience, Ritual Studies, Social Change, Society

Claire MOYSE-FAURIE
Professor, LLSH - Langues et Cultures Océaniennes at Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, New Caledonia

Keywords: Language Documentation, Linguistic Description, Typology

Nathalie MRGUDOVIC
Lecturer, School of Languages and Social sciences at Aston University, United Kingdom

Keywords: Self-Determination, Political Process, International Relationships, Post-Colonialism, Regional Integration, French Overseas Territories, Sub-regionalism

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

Keywords: Colonialism, Decolonisation, French Overseas Territories, Violence, Post-Colonialism, History, Colonial Discourse, Commemoration

Mélissa NAYRAL
Lecturer, LISST - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire, Solidarités, Sociétés, Territoires - CAS Centre d'anthropologie Sociale at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France

Keywords: Conflict, Conservation, Development, Gender, Governance, Indigenous Politics, Land Tenure, Natural Resources, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Politics

Melica OUENNOUGHI
Independent researcher, Phd of Anthropology of the University of Vincennes-Paris VIII at University Vincennes Paris VIII, France

Keywords: Anthropology, Colonial Politic, Community Development, Cultural Heritage, Culture-nature Relations, Ethnobotany, Forced Migration, Funerary Practices, Indigenous Mobility, Migration

Anna PAINI
Associate Professor, Culture e Civiltà (CuCi) at Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy

Keywords: Cultural Heritage, Cultural Transformation, Textiles, Christianisation, Colonial Discourse, Agency

Frédéric PATANE
PhD Student, anthropology of disability at Université de Lyon 2, France

Keywords: Disability

Max QUANCHI
Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences at University of the South Pacific, Fiji

Keywords: Colonialism, First Contacts, Pacific Studies as Field of Study, Photography, Visualization and Representation

Max QUANCHI
Research Fellow, Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at University of Queensland/Deakin University, Australia

Keywords: Photography, Historical Imagination

Jean Louis RALLU
Senior Research Fellow, INED at INED, France

Keywords: Age and Aging, Cultural Studies, Development, Migration, Youth, Population and Development

Elizabeth RECHNIEWSKI
Adjunct/associate Researcher, School of Languages and Cultures at University of Sydney, Australia

Keywords: Conflict, Memory, Commemoration, Historical Imagination, Colonial Discourse

Denis REGNIER
Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda

Keywords: Education, Kinship And Marriage, Medical Anthropology, French Overseas Territories, Violence, Family Organization, Urban Ethnography, Migration, Comparative Austronesian Anthropology, Conflict

Bernard RIGO
Professor, Centre des Nouvelles Etudes sur le Pacifique (EA 4242) at Université de Nouvelle-Calédonie, New Caledonia

Keywords: Gender, Land Tenure, Social Change, Society, Space, Visualization and Representation, Education

Catherine RIS
Associate Professor, LARJE (Research Centre on Economics and Law) at University of New Caledonia, New Caledonia

Keywords: Development Studies, Education Policy, Employment, Ethnicity, French Overseas Territories, Population and Development, Public Policies, Social Justice Policy, Youth, Mining

Laïsa RO'I
Associate Professor, Department of Law, Economics and Management at Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, New Caledonia

Keywords: Dance, Economy and Finance, Exchanges, Heritage, Labour Mobility, Political Economy, Regional Integration, Space, Sustainability, Data Mining

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

Keywords: Colonial Politic, Citizenship, French Overseas Territories, Political Anthropology, Self-Determination, Settler Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, Decolonisation

Olivier SAISSI
Associate Professor, Tourism studies dept at Université de Toulon, France

Keywords: Tourism, Transport, Sustainability

Christophe SERRA-MALLOL
Associate Professor, ISTHIA at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France

Keywords: Food and Nutrition, Gender, Identity, Globalization, Sex Workers, Social Change

Ingrid SYKES
Research Fellow, Department of Archaeology and History at La Trobe University, Australia

Keywords: History, Global Health, Indigenous Epistemology, Indigenous Politics

Serge TCHERKÉZOFF
Professor emeritus, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie and ANU CAP CHL at Aix Marseille Uni+CNRS+EHESS--Australian Nat Uni, France

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

Keywords: Anthropology Of Sciences, Applied Anthropology, Conservation, Decolonisation, Environment, Forestry, Political Anthropology, Public Policies, Rural Development, State

Celine TRAVESI
Postdoctoral Fellow, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, France

Keywords: Anthropology Of Knowing, Indigenous Cosmopolitics, Techniques, Senses, Human-environment Relations, Saltwater People, Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relations, Indigenous Tourism

Frédérique VALENTIN
Senior Research Fellow, UMR Temps at CNRS, France

Keywords: Funerary Archaeology, Biological Anthropology

Frederique VALENTIN
Research Fellow, UMR 7041 at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, France

Keywords: Mortuary Rites, Food and Nutrition, Migration

Leslie VANDEPUTTE
Assistant Professor, College of Education at the American University in the Emirates, United Arab Emirates

Keywords: Linguistic Anthropology, Evolution of Language, Contact Linguistic, Digital Resources, Urbanization, Urban Identity, Nationalism, Creoles, Identity, Bislama

Joeli VEITAYAKI
Associate Professor, School of Marine Studies at University of the South Pacific, Fiji

Keywords: Climate Change, Conservation, Cultural Geography, Fisheries, Natural Resources, Natural Hazards, Sustainability

Gilles VIDAL
Lecturer, Institut Protestant de Théologie at Faculté de Montpellier, France

Keywords: Mission History, Ritual Studies, Social Change, Religion, French Overseas Territories

Eddy WADRAWANE
Adjunct/associate Researcher, Centre des Nouvelles Etudes sur le Pacifique (EA 4242) at Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, New Caledonia

Frank WEIGELT
Senior Lecturer, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Hamburg, Germany

Keywords: Agency, Applied Anthropology, Class, Colonial Discourse, Cognitive Anthropology, Colonialism, Conflict, Conflict Management, Cultural Change, Cultural Heritage

Elisabeth WORLICZEK
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Global Change and Sustainability at University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Austria

Keywords: Climate Change, Climate Change Migration, Coastal Erosion, Cultural Change, Disaster, Interdisciplinarity, Migration, Mining and its Discontents, Natural Hazards, Social Change

René ZIMMER
Associate Professor, CNEP Centre des Nouvelles Etude sur le Pacifique at University of New Caledonia, New Caledonia

Wanda ZINGER
Postdoctoral Fellow, Archaeo- and Palaeogenetics group, Institute for Archaeological Sciences at University of Tübingen, Germany

Keywords: Migration And Im/Mobility, Polynesian Outliers


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