New Caledonia
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)
Chris BALLARD Associate Professor, Pacific and Asian History at Australian National University, AustraliaKeywords: Colonial Imagination , Cultural Heritage , Historical Consciousness , Landscape , Narratives , Historical Imagination , First Contacts , Climate Change , Disaster Studies , Drawing
Niko BESNIER Professor, Anthropology at Universiteit van Amsterdam, NetherlandsKeywords: Gender , Sexuality , Globalization , Body Theory , Food and Nutrition , Sport , Morality , Christianity , Conflict , Economic Anthropology
John BURTON Research Fellow, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining at University of Queensland, AustraliaKeywords: Development , Social Change , Social Impact Analysis , Social Mapping , Poverty , Mining , Identity , Social Organization , Population and Development
Guigone CAMUS Independent researcher, University of French Polynesia, FranceKeywords: Cosmology , Myth , Land Tenure , History , Environment , Climate Change , Diasporas , Conflict , Christianisation , Art
Francoise CAYROL Research Fellow, Cnep Pacific's New Studies Center at University of New Caledonia, New Caledonia
Joseph Martin CHEER Professor, Center for Tourism Research at Wakayama University, JapanKeywords: Anthropological Fieldwork , Applied Anthropology , Colonial Discourse , Colonial Politic , Cultural Geography , Cultural Change , Development , Heritage , Interdisciplinarity , Land Tenure
Emmanuelle CRANE Adjunct Professor, History, Media studies at Sorbonne Paris 4, FranceKeywords: Engaged Anthropology , Ethnographic Filmmaking , French Overseas Territories , Gender Violence , Justice , Media And National Identity , Pacific Media , Post-Colonialism , Violence , Sexual Assaults
Paul D'ARCY Associate Professor, Department of Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University, AustraliaKeywords: Climate Change , Agency , Anthropology , Conflict Resolution , Coral Reefs , Cultural Geography , Development Studies , Fisheries , Food History , History
Carine DAVID Associate Professor, LARJE (Research Centre on Economics and Law) at Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, New CaledoniaKeywords: Climate Change Migration , Colonial Politic , Customary Law , Elections , Environment , Environmental Jurisprudence of Supreme Courts , France’s Charter For The Environment , Human Right To A Healthy Environment , Institution , Intergenerational Equity
Marlène DÉGREMONT PhD Student, Gouvernance, Risque, Environnement, Développement GRED (UMR 220) at IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, New CaledoniaKeywords: Conservation , Marine Biodiversity , Governance , Environment , Public Policies , Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) , Globalization , Applied Anthropology , Cultural Heritage , Culture-nature Relations
Greg DVORAK Professor, Graduate School of Culture and Communication Studies at Waseda University, JapanKeywords: Post-Colonialism , Self-Determination , World War II , Art , Climate Change , Cultural Studies , Critical History , Commemoration , Gender , Sexuality
Viviane FAYAUD Independent researcher, Centre d'histoire des sociétés, des sciences et des conflits at Université de Picardie Jules-Verne, FranceKeywords: Art , Cultural Studies , Visualization and Representation , Photography , Nationalism , Memorial Diplomacy , Media And National Identity , Imagology , Drawing , Feeling of Belonging
Clara FILIPPI PhD Student, UCLouvain - ISPOLE at Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Denise FISHER Research Fellow, Cente for European Studies at Australian National University, AustraliaKeywords: French Overseas Territories , Identity , Governance , Indigenous Politics , International Relationships , Mining , Political Process , Public Policies , Regional Integration , Self-Determination
Julia FRENGS Associate Professor, Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United StatesKeywords: Cultural Studies , Cultural Production , Decolonization , Disaster , Ecology , Feminism , French Polynesia , French Overseas Territories , Francophone Literatures , Gender
Matteo GALLO Research Fellow, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Université d'Aix-Marseille, FranceKeywords: Anthropological Fieldwork , Youth , Political Culture , Memory , Cultural Heritage , Colonial Imagination , Audiovisual and Media , Witchcraft , Music , Knowledge Repatriation
Odile GANNIER Professor, Département de Lettres modernes/ CTEL at Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, FranceKeywords: Colonial Imagination , Colonial Literature , Cultural Studies , Francophone Literatures , Imagology , Literature , Navigation , Post-Colonialism , Voyaging , Marine Biodiversity
Lara GIORDANA Independent researcher, Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società at University of Turin, ItalyKeywords: Creativity , Environment , Gardens , Landscape , Place , Personhood , Sociality , Relatedness
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
Stéphanie GRAFF Lecturer, LARJE (Research Centre on Economics and Law) at Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, New CaledoniaKeywords: Political Anthropology , Decolonisation , Self-Determination , Indigenous Peoples Rights , Colonialism , Engaged Anthropology , French Overseas Territories , Neo-Colonialism , Politics , Regional Organisations
Nicholas HOARE Lecturer, Department of Pacific Affairs at The Australian National University, AustraliaKeywords: Mining , Mining and its Discontents , Phosphate , Labour Mobility , Biographic Research , Archives , History Of Anthropology , Newspaper History , Colonialism , Environment
Karolina KANIA Assistant Professor, Department of Strategy at Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech RepublicKeywords: Tourism , Indigenous Tourism , Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relations , Indigenous Agency , Indigenous Economies , Indigenous Political Movements , Inter-ethnic Relations , Land Management , Land Ownership , Decolonisation
Christiane KASARHÉROU LEURQUIN Other staff, Department of Languages and Cultures at University of Otago, New ZealandKeywords: Cultural Heritage , Identity , Narratives , Population and Development , Women's Fellowships , Traditional Ecological Knowledge , Resilience And Indigenous Communities , Pacific Studies , Oral Tradition , Oral History
Matthias KOWASCH Professor, Laboratoire Médiations at Sorbonne University, FranceKeywords: 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, CanadaKeywords: 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, ItalyKeywords: Colonialism , Ethnographic Encounter , Heritage , Indigeneity , Material Culture , Memory , Oceanic Historicities , Orality , Seascapes , Secrecy
Géraldine LE ROUX Lecturer, Department of Ethnology at Université de Bretagne Occidentale , FranceKeywords: Art , Colonial Imagination , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Diasporas , Identity , Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations , Indigenous Politics , Museums , Performance , Post-Colonialism
Isabelle LEBLIC Senior Research Fellow, LACITO at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, FranceKeywords: 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 StatesKeywords: Citizenship , Identity , Nationalism , Post-Colonialism , Politics , Personhood , Social Change , State , Visualization and Representation , Youth
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
Martino MICELI PhD Student, Centre Norbert Elias at EHESS - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, FranceKeywords: Youth , Work , Employment , Social Differentiation , Training Formation , Mining Labour , Nationhood , Masculinities , Kinship , Prison
Carlos MONDRAGON Associate Professor, Centro de Estudios de Asia y África at El Colegio de México, MexicoKeywords: 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, FranceKeywords: Kinship , Language , Ceremonial discourse , Names and Naming , Performance , Political Anthropology , Resilience , Ritual Studies , Social Change , Society
Valelia MUNI TOKE Research Fellow, SeDyL at IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, FranceKeywords: Sovereignty , Stakeholder Engagement , State , Public Policies , Public Services , Health , Food and Nutrition , Multilingualism , Mining , Oceans
Mélissa NAYRAL Lecturer, LISST - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire, Solidarités, Sociétés, Territoires - CAS Centre d'anthropologie Sociale at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, FranceKeywords: Conflict , Conservation , Development , Gender , Governance , Indigenous Politics , Land Tenure , Natural Resources , Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) , Politics
Arnaud NOURY Independent researcher, FranceKeywords: Art , Austronesian Languages , Climate Change , Cosmology , Digital Resources , Myth , History , Austronesian Prehistory , Pacific Studies , Ritual Studies
Melica OUENNOUGHI Independent researcher, Phd of Anthropology of the University of Vincennes-Paris VIII at University Vincennes Paris VIII, FranceKeywords: Anthropology , Colonial Politic , Community Development , Cultural Heritage , Culture-nature Relations , Ethnobotany , Forced Migration , Funerary Practices , Indigenous Mobility , Migration
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
Denis REGNIER Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Global Health Equity, RwandaKeywords: Education , Kinship And Marriage , Medical Anthropology , French Overseas Territories , Violence , Family Organization , Urban Ethnography , Migration , Comparative Austronesian Anthropology , Conflict
Catherine RIS Associate Professor, LARJE (Research Centre on Economics and Law) at University of New Caledonia, New CaledoniaKeywords: 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 CaledoniaKeywords: 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, AustraliaKeywords: Colonial Politic , Citizenship , French Overseas Territories , Political Anthropology , Self-Determination , Settler Colonialism , Post-Colonialism , Decolonisation
Ornella SEIGNEURY PhD Student, LARJE (Research Centre on Economics and Law) at University of New Caledonia, New CaledoniaKeywords: Comparative Studies , Sustainable Development , Public Policies , Constitutional Environmental Rights , Human Rights And Environmental Studies , Individual Rights To Environmental Protection , Human Right To A Healthy Environment , Rights Of The Unborn And Future Generations , Environmental Jurisprudence of Supreme Courts , Intergenerational Equity
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, FranceKeywords: 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, FranceKeywords: Anthropology Of Knowing , Indigenous Cosmopolitics , Techniques , Senses , Human-environment Relations , Saltwater People , Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relations , Indigenous Tourism
Leslie VANDEPUTTE Assistant Professor, College of Education at the American University in the Emirates, United Arab EmiratesKeywords: Linguistic Anthropology , Evolution of Language , Contact Linguistic , Digital Resources , Urbanization , Urban Identity , Nationalism , Creoles , Identity , Bislama
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, GermanyKeywords: 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), AustriaKeywords: 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
Official Websites Gouvernement de la Nouvelle Calédonie... Ministère des Outre-Mer (France) - Nouvel... Congrès de la Nouvelle-Calédonie... Research Centres Centre des Nouvelles Études sur le Pacifi... Institut Agronomique Néo-Calédonien (IAC... IRD Nouvelle-Calédonie...
Libraries and Archives Bibliothèque Bernheim... Bibliothèque de l'Université de Nouvelle... Bibliothèque du STA (service territorial ...
Museum Collections American Museum of Natural History... Australian Museum... British Museum...
Health and Health Research Agence sanitaire et sociales de Nouvelle-C... Direction de la recherche, des études, de... Direction des affaires sanitaires et socia...
Languages
List of languages More on Glottolog More on Ethnologue Recordings at Paradisec
Administrative Areas iles Loyaute (Province) Nord (Province) Sud (Province)