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| id: | 5 |
| Title: | Rethinking political conflicts, beyond ethnicity |
| Number of papers: | 16 |
| Organizers: | Cretton, Viviane
(Institut d\'anthropologie et de sociologie, University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
Emde, Sina
(Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Canberra, Australia) |
| Abstract: | This workshop provides the opportunity to reflect upon the need to rethink political concepts and conflicts within the Pacific. The coups d’Etat in Fiji and in Solomon’s islands in 2000, political instability in Vanuatu, urban conflict in Port-Moresby and ‘Australian’ refugees camp imposed on Nauru in 2001 embody such a necessity. In conflict situations, the researcher deals with empirical and epistemological disruptions that both question his or her practice and entail ethical consequences for the individuals and groups concerned. The notions of ‘race’, ‘half-caste’, ‘indigenous rights’, ‘western democracy’, ‘political insecurity’, ‘governance’ – among others – are not only theoretical tools used by scholars to reflect upon ethnicity. They are also highly charged labels deployed by the social actors themselves as they stake their claims. This session invites papers that offer innovative ways to interconnect conflicts, politics and ethnicities. We strongly encourage reflective performances that rethink political concepts under pressure while understanding present political realities in the Pacific. |
