[ANU Pacific.Institute] “The Indo-Pacific axis: contextualization and issues of a growing notion”

[Emilie Dotte]

Dear all,
Please find attached (French and English versions) a Call for Paper by the Journal de la Société des Océanistes.
The guest editors would love to include authors from the region and from the Australian academic community.

Please feel free to distribute and direct question to Sarah Mohamed-Gaillard sarah.mohamed75 at gmail.com<mailto:sarah.mohamed75 at gmail.com>

Call for papers for a dossier by the Journal de la Société des Océanistes:
“The Indo-Pacific axis: contextualization and issues of a growing notion”

In the recent years, Oceania has been the subject of new strategic interests, contributing to the emergence of critical issues from a long-marginalized region within international relations. Since the end of the Cold War, when the Pacific was seen as an “American lake”, powers have been showing their new interests for the political, diplomatic, economic and environmental issues of this vast region. The pronounced and growing Chinese presence in the zone as well as more recent interest shown by states such as Russia, India or the United Arab Emirates is calling for the historically involved powers to stand out (especially Australia, New Zealand, the United States of America, France and Japan) and pushing them to revise their policies concerning the Pacific states and territories. From the French perspectives for instance, during President Macron’s visit to Australia and New Caledonia in May 2018, he dedicated a large part of his speeches to strategic issues occurring in the Pacific. He also clearly positioned France in an Indo-Pacific axis looking to narrow the Chinese influence while thriving to use the opportunities given by its development. Indeed, the Indo-Pacific notion is not new, but it remains to define what it represents for the States (Australia, Japan, India, France) which claim their attachment to this notion, as well as determining if their visions are concordant and/or compatible and evaluating the echoes of that notion within the Pacific states and territories.

We invite contributions to explore the geopolitical, social and cultural issues of this notion, as detailed in the attached document.

Although it questions a notion related to geopolitics and international relations, this special issue is multidisciplinary and collaborative analyses (politicians/anthropologists; linguists/geographers, for example) will be particularly welcome. We will pay particular attention to proposals that question semantics; situating the historicity of the notion and its issues; questioning the representations it conveys and proposing a "bottom-up" approach.

Provisional timetable :

Submission of provisional titles and summaries: March 30th, 2019
Submission of first draft or the articles: Beginning of September 2019
Returns to authors and corrections: October to November 2019
Definitive submission of the article: December 2019 – January 2020
Possible publication planned: June 2020

Sarah Mohammed-Gaillard, lecturer in modern History, INALCO, CESSMA UMR245
Bastien Vandendyck, Oceanian issues specialist

Sarah Mohamed-Gaillard
Maître de conférences en histoire contemporaine
Inalco, Histoire du Pacifique
[Logo INALCO]<http://www.inalco.fr/index.php?id_secteur=1&def_lang=fr>





Dr Emilie Dotte-Sarout
Postdoctoral Fellow
ARC Laureate Project
The Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific - A Hidden History
http://archanth.anu.edu.au/archaeology/research/cbap
https://www.facebook.com/CBAPproject/
School of Archaeology and Anthropology,
The Australian National University
emilie.dotte at anu.edu.au<mailto:emilie.dotte at anu.edu.au>


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