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Europe and the Pacific: Engaging Anthropology in EU Policy-Making and Development Cooperation

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I discuss recent engagements of European anthropology of the Pacific with large-scale Pacific-oriented activities of the European Union (EU). In response to an EU-funding call, a consortium of Pacific research centers in Europe and the Pacific was formed in 2012. Coordinated from Norway, the European Consortium for Pacific Studies (ECOPAS) connects anthropology with the knowledge needs of a growing Pacific engagement by the EU. ECOPAS organizes and carries out research in all Pacific countries and on the policy-making scene itself and advises the European Commission and the European Parliament. This model of anthropological engagement exemplifies the potential of long-term research for applied involvement and indicates a certain openness in EU agencies to ethnographically grounded contributions to policy-making.

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    Edvard Hviding

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    Synnøve Bendixsen

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Hviding, E. (2016). Europe and the Pacific: Engaging Anthropology in EU Policy-Making and Development Cooperation. In: Bringa, T., Bendixsen, S. (eds) Engaged Anthropology. Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40484-4_8

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