Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0346551

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0346551

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Representing Kanaks: Generic Variation, Identity, and the Politics of the Everyday Semiotic. The project hypothesizes that representational struggles over indigenous identity are crucially shaped by the range of genres in which identity is asserted. Through the case of Kanaks in New Caledonia, as represented by several everyday genres hitherto neglected by scholarship, the representational politics of indigeneity are interrogated with the aim of demonstrating that Kanak existence is constituted in the semiotic detail of everyday generic variation. The project's significance lies in its radical reconception of identity and representational politics: going beyond indigenous versus colonial binaries, it reveals the complexity of day-to-day competition over and consolidation of indigenous identity through representational systems.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2003

End Date: 31-12-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $271,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

French | Cultural Theory | Cultural Studies | Postcolonial And Global Cultural Studies |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Other Keywords

Communication Across Languages and Cultures | Cultural Studies | Cultural Theory | French | Postcolonial And Global Cultural Studies | The Media | Visual Communication

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