French Polynesia
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)
Katherine AIGNER Research Fellow, College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University, AustraliaKeywords: Cosmology , Customary Law , Environmental History , Indigenous Epistemology , Knowledge Repatriation , Material Culture , Museums , Nuclear Imperialism , Ritual And Religion , Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Rudy BESSARD Research Fellow, Montesquieu Center of Political Researches / Governance and Insular Development Laboratory at University of Bordeaux / University of French Polynesia, FranceKeywords: Big-manship , Climate Change , Citizenship , Democracy , Globalization , Governance , Political Process , Regional Integration , Politics , Social-ecological System
Guigone CAMUS Independent researcher, University of French Polynesia, FranceKeywords: Cosmology , Myth , Land Tenure , History , Environment , Climate Change , Diasporas , Conflict , Christianisation , Art
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
Aurélien ESGONNIÈRE DU THIBEUF PhD Student, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, FranceKeywords: 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, FranceKeywords: 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 PolynesiaKeywords: 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, FranceKeywords: Christianity , Social Change , Politics , Emotions , Feeling of Belonging , French Overseas Territories , Migration , Morality , Religion , Institution
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
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
Barbara GLOWCZEWSKI Senior Research Fellow, Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale at CNRS, Collège de France and EHESS, FranceKeywords: Agency , Anthropological Fieldwork , Anthropology of Ontology , Audiovisual and Media , Contemporary Indigenous Art , Disaster , Memory , Political Anthropology , Ritual , Sand-Drawing
Aymeric HERMANN Adjunct/associate Researcher, UMR 7041 at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, FranceKeywords: 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, AustraliaKeywords: 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 IslandsKeywords: Climate Policy , Development , Gender Violence , Mining and its Discontents , Political Anthropology , Regional History , Seascape , Social Impact Analysis , Sustainable Tourism , World Heritage
Florence LAMY PhD Student, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, FranceKeywords: 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 PolynesiaKeywords: 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, ItalyKeywords: 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
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
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
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
Grant MCCALL Other staff, Department of Anthropology at University of Sydney, AustraliaKeywords: Age and Aging , Coconut , Bureaucratization , Colonial Imagination , Cultural Heritage , First Contacts , Identity , Intellectual Property Rights , Inter-ethnic Relations , Kinship
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
Diego MUÑOZ Postdoctoral Fellow, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich at Social and Cultural Anthropology, GermanyKeywords: 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, FranceKeywords: 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
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
Kathleen RILEY Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University, United StatesKeywords: 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 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
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
Manatea TAIARUI PhD Student, History, Pacific Islands Studies at University of French Polynesia, French PolynesiaKeywords: 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 PolynesiaKeywords: 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
Nicholas THOMAS Professor, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
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
Official Websites Présidence de la Polynésie française... Haut-Commissariat de la République en Pol... Ministère des Outre-Mer (France) - Polyn... Research Centres Centre Ifremer du Pacifique en Polynésie ... IRD Tahiti - Polynésie française...
Libraries and Archives Bibliothèque de l'Université de la Polyn... Centre de documentation de l'IRD Papeete...
Museum Collections American Museum of Natural History... Australian Museum... British Museum...
Health and Health Research Direction de la recherche, des études, de... Direction de la Santé de Polynésie Fran... Institut de veille sanitaire (French Insti...
Languages
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