Anais Duong-Pedica

I am a PhD candidate in Gender Studies and part of the Minority Profile. My research focuses on the politics of "mixed-race" identity  in the context of decolonization in Kanaky/New Caledonia. I am particularly intersted in how "mixed-raceness" is discursively deployed in contemporary Kanaky/New-Caledonia and what work this deployment and category does in a settler colonial context. My doctoral work takes root in the fields of critical (mixed-)race studies and settler colonial studies. My research interests are in cultural studies, contemporary colonial and racial relations and the legacy and continuation of (settler) colonialism. More recently, this has also expanded to human-animal relations in the context of settler colonialism.

I am also interested in gendering  race, racism and colonialism and have developed and taught the course 'White Women & White Feminism' using critical race and whiteness studies as well as Black, Third World and Indigenous feminisms.