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PhD in anthropology, Research fellow in Anthropology at Université de Paris/LARCA, CNRS, Paris.
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Research themes
- Anti-racism and race relations in the Caribbean and in mainland France
- Nationalism, ethnicity and identity politics in the Caribbean
- Dance, traditionalism and folklore
- Gender and LGBTQ+ Studies
- Slavery and memory policies in the Caribbean and in mainland France
Current Project
Research Supervision:
Ary Gordien also supervizes and co-supervizes Master’s and PhD students investigating topics related to the Caribbean and/or race and ethnicity, anticolonial nationalism, antiracism, gender and LGBTQ studies as well as dance and folklore.
PhD in anthropology, « Nationalism, race and ethnicity in Guadeloupe : The ambivalence of identity making in a context of political dependence”.
2019 – present: Research fellow in Anthropology at Université de Paris/LARCA, CNRS, Paris.
- January 2018 – June 2019: Post-doctoral fellow at Université Paris 8, CERA, IHTP.
- February 2019: Qualified by the Conseil national des universités, sections 11 (Langues et littératures anglaises et anglo-saxonnes)
- September 2017 – May 2019: Teaching assistant in English and anthropology at University Paris Descartes-Paris 5.
- August 2016 – July 2017: Post-doctoral fellow at Institut de Recherche pour le Développement within a research project entitled Repairs (Compensation, reparations and indemnity for slavery, Europe, Africa and the Americas 19th -21st century), funded by the French National Agency for Research.
- February 2016: Qualified by the Conseil national des universités, sections 20 (biological anthropology, ethnology and prehistory)
- November 2015: PhD in Anthropology, University Paris Descartes-Paris 5, supervised by Francis Affergan.
- 2010: Master’s degree in anthropology, Université Paris Descartes-Paris 5.
- 2007: Maîtrise (4 year degree) in Applied Foreign Languages (English and Spanish), Sorbonne University Paris 4
- Appropriation culturelle : peut-on « voler » une culture ?, The Conversation, 14 mai 2020
- Être gay en Guadeloupe : entre homophobie et préjugés raciaux, The Conversation, 14 mai 2020.
- Subjective Interpretation of the Memory of Slavery: Solving and Expressive Internal Conflicts Through Genealogical Research in eds. Lawerence Aje and Nicolas Gachon, Traces and Memories of Slavery in the Atlantic World, New York: Routledge, 2019: 62-83.
- “Gais, « blacks » et antillais, l’art de ruser avec des impositions hétéronormatives et postcoloniales” in L’Homme & la Société 2018/3 (n° 208): 83-115.
- (Auto-)marginalisation des Blancs créoles les récits historiques guadeloupéens in Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry, Matthieu Renault, Marie-Jeanne Rossignol et Pauline Vermeren eds., Histoires en marges, Les péripheries de l’histoire globale, Tours: Presses Universitaires François Rabelais, 2018: 101-124.
- Paul E. Lovejoy and Vanessa S. Oliveira, eds., Slavery, Memory, Citizenship, Trenton: Africa World Press, 2016: 227-256.
