Isabelle Merle

Biography

AUTHORITY TO DIRECT THE THESES held on September 14, 2010 at the University of Provence. - Volume 1: Investigations and terrains in a colonial situation. History and anthropology. 163 pp. - Volume II: Meetings. The Pacific and Europe, XVIe-XVIIIe, Narrative and Reflexive Sketches, 187 pp. 1993: Thesis new regime: New Caledonia. The birth of a colonial society, 1853-1920, supported by A. Bensa (anthropologist), P. Bourdelais (historian), D. Lombard (thesis director and historian), A. Saussol (geographer), J Revel (president of the jury and historian) .Mainly honored with the congratulations of the jury. 1988: Degree in Social Sciences (ens-ehess, Paris). 1985: Diploma of the Institute of Political Studies of Paris. 1983: Bachelor of Economical and Social Administration (University Paris X). 1979: Baccalauréat D, Mention Very Good.

Research Interest

Comparative history of Franco-British colonial systems in the societies of the South Pacific (Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand). Indigenous conditions, indigenous regime, relations between communities and colonial order. - By extension: reflection on the "colonial fact" from the particular terrain of the South Pacific in a perspective articulated with the other "colonial situations" and inserted in a reflection around the constitution of the nation and the empire.