This is the introduction of GG Professor, Dr. Carole who will guide us to many countries : From Canada, France, Japan, Singaproe, Thailand, Morocco... even Central Asia. She travelled more countires and experienced more diverse world than normal geographers. ^^... So I think she deserves to become senior advisor for GGS. Dr. Carole can help us to understand the theme "Borders" , "Shared Growth" and "Plastic Waste" through her experiences as a researcher in various fields.
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Hello everyone!
My name is
Carole Faucher, and I am a professor in the field of anthropology of health and
education. I am a Canadian from Montreal, and my mother tongue is French
although I am also fluent in English. I am currently based in France and work,
among other things, as a senior researcher and an editor for peer-reviewed
journals. I have just returned from a
four-month stay at Kyoto University as a visiting professor, and I travel
regularly to Morocco, where I am also affiliated with a research institute. Although I am not a geographer, the work of
geographers has been a constant source of inspiration for me. Also, I have been
conducting research in collaboration with geographers in different parts of the
world. I believe that social anthropology and human geography have a lot in
common. In the next paragraphs, I will
introduce myself briefly.
I completed my undergraduate and master's degrees in anthropology at the Université de Montréal, and then moved to Singapore to undertake my PhD at the National University of Singapore. I completed my doctoral studies in 1999, which is a long time ago, with a thesis in medical anthropology focusing on the healing practices among Malay communities in Indonesia. Following this, I moved to a new research topic, centering on the social and ethnic identities processes among adolescents. This is when I got interested by the field of Education. This shift was influenced by the significant political transformations occurring in Indonesia during that period, prompting an interest in understanding how adolescents and young adults from Indonesia’s Malay communities were responding to and navigating these changes.
In the
early 2000s, I assumed a position at NUS for four years before moving to Japan
as a visiting professor at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Since then, I
have lived in various places around the world, holding faculty positions in
Thailand (Mahidol University), Japan (University of Tsukuba and Kyoto
University), Kazakhstan (Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Education)
and Scotland (University of Edinburgh). I have thoroughly enjoyed all the
places where I had the chance to live and have friends and research
collaborators in each of them. I also keep in touch with many of my former
students who have taught me so much. I
am passionate about research that seeks to understand the social, structural,
cultural and environmental dynamics that characterize societies and regions in
both the Global South and the Global North. Over a period of nearly three
decades, I have conducted academic research on issues related to youth identity
processes in borderlands and fragile societies; health promotion and well-being
in schools; schooling in conflict zones; environmental disasters and health education;
mental health and disaster risk reduction education. These projects have taken
me to various regions of the world, including the Canadian North, the Miskito
Coast of Nicaragua, the Riau Archipelago of Indonesia, the Thai-Myanmar border,
the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan bordering Afghanistan, rural communities in
Kazakhstan, Georgia, Tunisia, Morocco, Senegal and Japan.
In 2018, I
was invited to join the UNESCO Chair and the WHO Collaborative Centre for
Global Health and Education as an Affiliate Professor, contributing to research
and connecting researchers and health promotion community actors at a global
level. This has been an extremely rich
and fascinating experience so far. I believe that knowledge about society,
sustainable development, health and education must be built collectively across
disciplines, sectors and regions of the world. I am a strong advocate of
working towards a more equitable balance in the production and dissemination of
knowledge that informs action to promote better conditions for health and
well-being for all. This knowledge must come from diverse sources and not
exclusively from the global North.
I would be
really happy to share my passion with you as well as discussing about any of
the countries and regions where I had the chance to live and conduct research.
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Below are some relatively recent pictures I would like to share:
with a group of students in the Turkestan, south of Kazakhstan during a fieldtrip;
with my students in Dakar, Senegal where I am teaching and coordinating courses in Health Promotion for medical practitioners and NGO’s workers as part of a collaboration between the Unesco Chair Global Health and Education and the University Cheikh Anta Diop;
the Kasbah of the Udayas in Rabat, Morocco;
The stunning Pamir Mountain
range in the province of Gorno-Badakhshan in Tajikistan where I conducted field
work over many years.
Hello! My name is Haeunn, and I am from South Korea. Through books by anthropologists like Jared Diamond, I have come to understand anthropology as a discipline that explores everything about humans, including culture and human nature. As someone with no prior knowledge of anthropology, I find your research in the fields of health and education anthropology particularly unique and intriguing. I would love to learn more about what these fields aim to explore and focus on. Could you explain what their main objectives are?
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