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This project is coordinated by Nathalie BERNARDIE-TAHIR, Lecturer in Geography at the University of Limoges, supported by a team of 14 European and East African researchers. The programme, which will eventually produce a collective book, proposes both a regional research on land, cultural and identity building of the Zanzibar archipelago and a global reflectiion on insularity. The focus is on Zanzibar, considered as a «laboratory-island».

Research Training

Maïlys Chauvin, former PhD grant holder at IFRA, has been carrying out fieldwork in Zanzibar since 2000. Her project is on identity, territory recompositions in the context of developing tourism and union crisis. She is a collaborator in the book project L’Autre Zanzibar, with Nathalie Bernardie-Tahir.

Publications

Nathalie Bernardie-Tahir, « Zanzibar aujourd’hui : la dialectique complexe d’un relais en panne », in Bernardie-Tahir N. & Taglioni F. (dir), Les dynamiques contemporaines des petits espaces insulaire, 2005, Paris, Karthala, pp. 267-278.

Forthcoming :

Nathalie Bernardie-Tahir, « Quand les touristes rencontrent les habitants : territoires et lieux touristiques dans la ville de Zanzibar », in Actes du Colloque Les mondes musulmans du tourisme, Paris, 13-14 janvier 2005, Paris, Mappemonde/Belin (forthcoming).
Nathalie Bernardie-Tahir, « L’hôtel, la pension, le village-club: la trilogie du tourisme à Zanzibar », in Dehoorne O. & Joseph P. (dir.), Tourismes et environnements littoraux dans l’espace intertropical, Paris, L’Harmattan (forthcoming).