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Gwendal
Diabat
After
graduating from the University of Amsterdam
with a Master degree in International Relations in December 2000 I was first dispatched
to the Pacific
island of New Caledonia as a volunteer tutor in the field of French high school education.
While teaching, my work was to develop a long-term project aimed at challenging
the abnormal and persistent low achievement of Kanak students. I returned
to England and started
working for the Japanese airline ANA as a flight attendant. Different
from my experience in New Caledonia
as it may look, I found myself dealing with the same communicational issues.
I moved to Yokohama, Japan, in July 2004.
I joined the Dubliner’s Irish Pub in the Tokyo district of
Shinagawa and I started teaching French lesson privately. At the same
time I was able to complete my work started in New Caledonia in the form
of Carnets de voyages and entitled L’île
la plus proche du paradis. I travelled to
Ex-Yugoslavia in 2002 and went back to New
Caledonia in 2003. Throughout this period I have
pursued my research on globalisation. I am currently working on a paper about the
American presence in Japan.
My previous travels include Bolivia,
Peru, India, Japan,
the United States
and Greece.
I spent most of my childhood on the African continent, I graduated from high school in the suburb of
Paris and I obtained
a first degree in Development Studies from the University
of Kent at Canterbury, England,
in 1999. My Master thesis dealt with the power of the state and
the process of globalisation in the context of North-South relations.
I was born in Bretagne, France, in 1976, I am married and I have a 2 years
old daughter.
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