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The World Factbook: Background: :: The French annexed various Polynesian island groups during the 19th century. In September 1995, France stirred up widespread protests by resuming nuclear testing on the Mururoa atoll after a three-year moratorium. The tests were halted in January 1996. In recent years, French Polynesia's autonomy has been considerably expanded. :: ...read more [Source: The World Factbook] Wikipedia: French Polynesia (i/ˈfrɛntʃ pɒlɨˈniːʒə/; French: Polynésie française, pronounced: [pɔlinezi fʁɑ̃sɛz]; Tahitian: Pōrīnetia Farāni) is an overseas country (pays d'outre-mer) of the French Republic. It is made up of several groups of Polynesian islands, the most famous island being Tahiti in the Society Islands group, which is also the most populous island and the seat of the capital of the territory (Papeetē). Although not an integral part of its territory, Clipperton Isl...read more [Source: Wikipedia]

Expertise (alphabetical order)

Sémir AL WARDI
Associate Professor, Laboratoire Gouvernance et Développement Insulaire at Université de la Polynésie française, French Polynesia

Keywords: Colonialism, Democracy, Foreign Policy, French Overseas Territories, Governance, Indigenous Politics, Pacific Regional Politics, Political Culture

Guillaume ALEVEQUE
Associate Professor, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, France

Keywords: Christianisation, Cultural Heritage, Personhood, Ritual, Social Movement, Post-Colonialism, Museum Collections, Knowledge

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

Chloé ANGUÉ
Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre de recherches en littérature et poétique comparées at Université Paris Nanterre, France

Keywords: Myth, Imagology, Colonial Imagination, Colonial Literature, Post-Colonialism, Poetics, Cultural Studies

Michel BAILLEUL
Postdoctoral Fellow, France

Keywords: History, Regional History

Rudy BESSARD
Research Fellow, Montesquieu Center of Political Researches / Governance and Insular Development Laboratory at University of Bordeaux / University of French Polynesia, France

Keywords: Big-manship, Climate Change, Citizenship, Democracy, Globalization, Governance, Political Process, Regional Integration, Politics, Social-ecological System

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

Keywords: Disaster, Forced Displacement, Disaster Studies, Human-environment Relations, Environmental Migrations, Humanitarian Aid, Post-catastrophe Reconstruction

Guigone CAMUS
Independent researcher, University of French Polynesia, France

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

Jean-Michel CHAZINE
Senior Research Fellow, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, France

Keywords: Anthropological Field Records, Rock Art, Indo-Pacific Prehistory, Borneo

Emilie CHEVALIER
PhD Student, GEOLAB at University of Limoges, France

Keywords: Climate Change, French Overseas Territories, Migration, Political Ecology, Post-Colonialism, Space

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

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

Gaëtan DESO
PhD Student, CRISES E.A. 4424 – Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires en Sciences humaines et Sociales at Université Paul-Valéry de Montpellier, France

Keywords: Art, Cultural Heritage, French Overseas Territories, Museums, Post-Colonialism

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
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

Aurélien ESGONNIÈRE DU THIBEUF
PhD Student, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, France

Keywords: Anthropology Of Belonging, Masculinities, Youth, Violence, Value, Sport, Social Differentiation, Personhood, Performance, Friendship

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

Marion FAYN
PhD Student, Anthropology at Université de la Polynésie française, French Polynesia

Keywords: Dance, Cutural Change, Cultural Heritage, Identity, Body, Creativity, Performance, Music, Song / Dance, Organology

Yannick FER
Research Fellow, Groupe Sociétés religions laïcités at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, France

Keywords: Christianity, Social Change, Politics, Emotions, Feeling of Belonging, French Overseas Territories, Migration, Morality, Religion, Institution

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

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

Barbara GLOWCZEWSKI
Senior Research Fellow, Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale at CNRS, Collège de France and EHESS, France

Keywords: Agency, Anthropological Fieldwork, Anthropology of Ontology, Audiovisual and Media, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Disaster, Memory, Political Anthropology, Ritual, Sand-Drawing

Hélène GUIOT
Independent researcher at Inalco, Credo

Keywords: Material Culture, Techniques, Museums, Heritage, Art, Agency, Ethno-archéologie

Aymeric HERMANN
Adjunct/associate Researcher, UMR 7041 at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, France

Keywords: Austronesian Prehistory, Cultural Technology, Exchanges, Material Culture, Techniques, Polynesian Chiefdoms, Social Organization, Anthropology, Geochemistry

Nicholas HOARE
Lecturer, Department of Pacific Affairs at The Australian National University, Australia

Keywords: Mining, Mining and its Discontents, Phosphate, Labour Mobility, Biographic Research, Archives, History Of Anthropology, Newspaper History, Colonialism, Environment

Takiora INGRAM
Independent researcher, FRIENDS OF THE LAGOON/PACIFIC PLANNING &RESEARCH at Non-Government Organization, Cook Islands

Keywords: Climate Policy, Development, Gender Violence, Mining and its Discontents, Political Anthropology, Regional History, Seascape, Social Impact Analysis, Sustainable Tourism, World Heritage

Hervé Raimana LALLEMANT-MOE
Other staff, Law at University of French Polynesia, French Polynesia

Keywords: Climate Change, Disaster, Ecology, Environment, Governance, Political Ecology, Sustainability

Florence LAMY
PhD Student, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, France

Keywords: Cultural Heritage, Anthropological Field Records, Art, Body Theory, Conservation, Material Culture, Cultural Technology

Sylvie LARGEAUD-ORTEGA
Associate Professor, English literature and culture at University of French Polynesia, French Polynesia

Keywords: Anti-colonial, Colonial Discourse, Colonial Imagination, Colonial Literature, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Studies, Engaged Anthropology, First Contacts, Francophone Literatures, Gender

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

Matthew LAUER
Professor, Department of Anthropology at San Diego State University, United States

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

Guillaume LE PORT
Independent researcher, Centre de Recherches Insulaires et Observatoire de l'Environnement at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, French Polynesia

Keywords: Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Fisheries, French Overseas Territories, Marine Biodiversity, Natural Hazards, Social-ecological System, Tourism, Coastal Erosion

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
Contractual researcher, Culture, Politica e Società at Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

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

Kayser LIS
PhD Student, Anthropology Department, Aarhus University at Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark

Keywords: Environmental Anthropology, French Polynesia, International Relations, Nuclear Issues, Post-Colonialism, Memory, Politics Of Knowing And Not Knowing

Gwendoline MALOGNE-FER
Postdoctoral Fellow, Groupe Sociétés religions laïcité at EPHE/CNRS, France

Keywords: Religion, Social Change, Migration, Gender, Christianisation, Audiovisual and Media, Mission History

Alexander MAWYER
Assistant Professor, Center for Pacific Islands Studies at University of Hawai'i-Manoa, United States

Keywords: Colonial Literature, Cultural Heritage, Historical Consciousness, Language-Culture-Cognition, Environment

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

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

Michael Patrick MORRISSEY
Professor emeritus, The University of the West Indies at Mona Campus, formally Faculty of Education, Jamaica

Keywords: Historical Imagination, Ethnobotany, Decolonisation, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations, Breadfruit

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

Valelia MUNI TOKE
Research Fellow, SeDyL at IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France

Keywords: Sovereignty, Stakeholder Engagement, State, Public Policies, Public Services, Health, Food and Nutrition, Multilingualism, Mining, Oceans

Diego MUÑOZ
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich at Social and Cultural Anthropology, Germany

Keywords: Kinship, Land Dispute, Law and Culture, Migration, Regional History, Social Change, Social Organization, Tourism, Cultural Change, Diasporas

Florence MURY
Postdoctoral Fellow, CNRS at Université de la Polynésie française, French Polynesia

Emilie NOLET
Associate Professor, Department of Art and Archaeology (UFR 03) at University Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

Keywords: Material Culture, Colonial Process, Christianisation, Cultural Heritage, Ethnographic Encounter, French Polynesia, Health, Housing, Indigenous Agency, Medical Anthropology

Garance NYSSEN
PhD Student, Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

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

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

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

Kathleen RILEY
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University, United States

Keywords: Linguistic Anthropology, Language Socialization, Cultural Heritage, Gender, Environment, Anthropology Of Foodways, Bilingualism, Language Ideology, Language Shift, Sexuality

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

Laura SCHUFT
Adjunct/associate Researcher, Faculty of Sports Sciences at Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France

Keywords: Gender, Post-Colonialism, Race / Racism

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

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

Manatea TAIARUI
PhD Student, History, Pacific Islands Studies at University of French Polynesia, French Polynesia

Keywords: Nuclear Testing, Nuclear Imperialism, French Polynesia, Tahiti, Moruroa, Fangataufa, Transnational History, International History

Anthony TCHEKEMIAN
Senior Lecturer, Département des Lettres, Langues et Sciences Humaines at Université de la Polynésie française, French Polynesia

Keywords: Agriculture, Agrobiodiversity, Ancient Agricultural Systems, Care, Climate Change Adaptation, Coconut Oil, Social Representations, Town Planning, Obesity, Food

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

Edgar TETAHIOTUPA
Independent researcher, Centre des Nouvelles Etudes sur le Pacifique (EA 4242) at Université de Nouvelle-Calédonie

Keywords: Cosmology, Myth, Narratives, Visualization and Representation, Polynesian Languages, Bilingualism And Schooling

Lauric THIAULT
PhD Student, Centre de Recherches Insulaires et Observatoire de l'Environnement, France

Keywords: Complexity, Ecology, Natural Resources, Social-ecological System, Small-scale Fisheries, Vulnerability, Sustainability, Conservation

Nicholas THOMAS
Professor, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

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

Keywords: Funerary Archaeology, Biological Anthropology

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

Natalia VELA AMENEIRO
Professor, Departamento de Filología Francesa e Inglesa at Universidad de Cádiz, Spain

Keywords: Literature, Gender

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

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

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


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