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Working Session: Indigenous Struggles and Issues
in Oceania today Forty-six persons attended the session over the day. Nine pre-circulated papers were presented and discussed, first by a pre-identified discussant and then through a general discussion. At the end of the day, the 11 authors of the pre-circulated papers confirmed their commitment for next year. Four new participants also expressed their desire to join the session. We are thus moving towards a symposium in 2009 by collective agreement. We also agreed to submit a semi-final version of our papers for comments by November 1st, 2008. The finale drafts will be expected by January 15th, 2009 for pre-circulation. We collectively decided to focus on the problematization of the concept of "indigeneity". We will look at the issue of indigenous struggles in a range of Pacific societies, including Aotearoa/New Zealand, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Rotuma in the context of Fiji, PNG, and most probably next year, Samoa, Tonga, and Hawai'i. We were positively surprised at the level of synergy that was achieved in the session. The organizers will circulate among the session participants a full summary of the working session, a short bibliography and an outline of the main themes for the 2009 symposium in the forthcoming weeks. For more information or if you are interested in joining, please contact the session organizers. We send a special invitation to indigenous scholars.Marie Salaün, Université de Paris 5, Faculté des Sciences Sociales, 45, rue des Saints-Pères, 75 006 Paris, FRANCE; <marie.salaun@paris5.sorbonne.fr> Natacha Gagné, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Ottawa, 550 Cumberland (388), Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, CANADA; <natgagne@uottawa.ca> |
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