| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 321 pages). |
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Ajie language |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
State, society and governance in Melanesia
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State, society and governance in Melanesia (Series)
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| Contents |
Lineage rivalry and colonial control: the dynamics of war in a globalised space -- Objects of war -- The chiefdoms within the colonial order -- Post-indigénat mobilisations -- The subjectivity of violent action -- The construction and fiction of consensus. |
| Summary |
War and Other Means describes and analyses the practices of war, the ‘objects of war’ and the conventions of the use of violence in Houaïlou, New Caledonia. It focuses on the colonial repression conducted in 1856 and after, the anti-sorcerer hunt in 1955, the independence mobilisation in the 1980s and the village feuds in the 2000s. Through this archaeology of violence, it reports on the practical inventiveness, intelligence and cunning of the Kanaks involved in social, often violent, conflicts. The use of archival material and recourse to the oral stories gathered from the inhabitants of Houaïlou restores the depth of these historical moments and the nested contexts of the political action that unfolded; it also questions the value and limits of fieldwork investigation. These episodes are moments of change in the social, administrative, land and political organisation of New Caledonia; they make it possible to understand, from France’s takeover to the present day, the real modalities of implementation of colonial and postcolonial governmentality. The attention given to the invention, the importation or the adaptation of repressive techniques, closely linked to the French experience in Algeria, opens up a geopolitics of colonisation. Through this detailed description of the social logics of conflict, Michel Naepels also invites us to reflect on the place of European fantasies on violence and on the representations of otherness. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-321) |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
Text in English. |
| Subject |
Political violence -- New Caledonia -- Houaïlou.
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Political violence. |
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New Caledonia. |
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Violence -- New Caledonia -- Houaïlou.
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Violence. |
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Kanak (New Caledonian people)
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Kanak (New Caledonian people) |
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Kanak (New Caledonian people) -- Politics and government.
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Kanak (New Caledonian people) -- Politics and government. |
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Kanak (New Caledonian people) -- Government relations.
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Kanak (New Caledonian people) -- Government relations. |
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Minorities -- Government policy -- New Caledonia -- Houaïlou.
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Minorities -- Government policy. |
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Minorities. |
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Houaïlou (New Caledonia) -- Ethnic relations.
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Houaïlou (New Caledonia) -- Politics and government.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Gomme, Rachel, translator.
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Australian National University Press.
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| Added Title |
Conjurer la guerre : violence et pouvoir à Houaïlou (Nouvelle-Calédonie). English
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| ISBN |
9781760461546 (electronic book) |
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1760461547 (electronic book) |
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9781760461539 paperback |
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1760461539 paperback |
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