Representing Kanaks: Generic Variation, Identity, and the Politics of the Everyday Semiotic

该项目假设，关于土著身份的代表性斗争是由各种类型塑造的，这些类型主张身份。通过新喀里多尼亚卡纳克人的案例，由几个迄今为止被学术界忽视的日常类型所代表，土著的代表性政治被质疑，目的是证明卡纳克人的存在是由日常通用变化的符号细节构成的。该项目的意义在于其对身份和代表性政治的激进重新概念：超越土著与殖民地的二元对立，它揭示了通过代表性系统对土著身份的日常竞争和巩固的复杂性。

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.