Ary Gordien is a research fellow in Anthropology at Université de Paris/LARCA, CNRS, Paris. In 2015, he defended a doctoral thesis in anthropology entitled « Nationalisme, race et ethnicité en Guadeloupe : constructions identitaires ambivalentes en situation de dépendance. »
He focuses his research on:
- 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