Locality, Mobility and Governmentality in Colonial/Postcolonial <scp>N</scp>ew <scp>C</scp>aledonia: The case of the Kouare tribe (<i>xûâ Xârâgwii</i>), <scp>T</scp>hio (<i>Cöö</i>)

Meur, Pierre‐Yves Le

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“…In 2002, the Declaration on the natural and cultural heritage of Kanaky argued that royalties should be calculated on the basis of the extracted ton and paid to the ‘mining chieftaincies' because the mining sites were located in the areas of influence of particular tribes and chieftaincies (Demmer 2007; Levacher 2017). Also, the development of claims regarding nickel mining and deposits seems to express a shift in the ways customary property can be recognized without claiming legal entitlement (Le Meur 2013, 2021). For instance, before the construction of the KNS project in the north of the country, an agreement was signed which recognized the ‘customary area of influence’ as ‘an area over which one or more clans exercise customary land rights concurrently with the rights legally established by title’ 19 .…”

Section: Local‐level Politics and The Mine‐sovereignty Nexusmentioning

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“…It found its source in the financial model of the Koniambo project and other SMSP mining projects in which SMSP and North Province hold 51% of the shares. 15 The political process bore the hallmark of resource nationalism (Bouard et al 2016;Burton and Levacher 2021;Le Meur 2017a;Wilson 2015). It displays the three core elements of nationalist policy regimes identified by Wilson (2015:401): the public ownership of mining industries (public equity), the encouragement of certain corporate behaviours to the benefit of local consumers (for instance good environmental practices) and the partial capture of mining revenues for public purposes.…”

Section: Full Sovereignty and Internal Sovereignty Contemporary Disco...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…and observations of events including mining commissions, customary meetings, and demonstrations. The main investigation sites were Thio (Le Meur 2013, 2017b) and Yaté/Mont‐Dore (Levacher 2016b, 2017), both located in the South Province (Fig. 1).…”

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Mining and Competing Sovereignties in New Caledonia

Meur

Levacher

2022

Oceania

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Mining, especially nickel mining, has a long history in New Caledonia and cannot be separated from the trajectory of this territory as a settler colony. However, the construction of mining as a political stake and resource in the New Caledonian public arenas has come surprisingly late, only emerging explicitly in the 1990s as pro‐independence parties pushed the issue to the fore in their negotiations with the French state and anti‐independence parties. Nickel mining and processing became part of the claim for sovereignty in the form of a ‘resource nationalism’ discourse. This paper discusses the multi‐layered nature of sovereignty through the theoretical propositions of Richard Joyce on ‘competing sovereignties’ (2013) to illustrate both the complexities of a decolonization situation that has lasted for 20 years and the challenges posed to sovereignty by mining.

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Section: Local‐level Politics and The Mine‐sovereignty Nexusmentioning

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Section: Full Sovereignty and Internal Sovereignty Contemporary Disco...mentioning

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Mining and Competing Sovereignties in New Caledonia

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Levacher

2022

Oceania

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“…These are reminiscent of other strikes and blockades against SLN caused by multiple grievances. 49 SLN is proposing new bores to supply drinking water if other arguments about land access and control can be resolved. Water has become an emblem of the larger sense of disenfranchisement and loss of economic development; like access to land, access to clean water is a source of socio-political struggle, not only a health and sanitation issue.…”

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Contested sites, land claims and economic development in Poum, New Caledonia

Kowasch

Batterbury

Neumann

2015

Settler Colonial Studies

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Property relations are often ambiguous in postcolonial settings. Property is only considered as such if socially legitimate institutions sanction it. In indigenous communities, access to natural resources is frequently multidimensional and overlapping, subject to conflict and negotiation in a 'social arena'. Settler arrivals and new economic possibilities challenge these norms and extend the arena. The article analyses conflicts and negotiations in the French overseas territory of New Caledonia in the light of its unique settler history and economic activity, focussing on the little-studied remote northern district of Poum on the Caledonian main island Grande Terre. In this region the descendants of British fishermen intermarried with the majority Kanak clans. We illustrate the interaction between customary conflicts, European settlement, struggles for independence, and a desire for economic development. Customary claims are in tension with the attractions of economic growth and service delivery, which has been slow in coming to Poum for reasons largely outside the control of local people.

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La dynamique des pratiques change-t-elle la manière de penser les relations kanak aux continuités terre-mer et à la nature ?

Sabinot

Herrenschmidt

2020

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Dans les tribus de Nouvelle-Calédonie, de nouvelles pratiques socioéconomiques et des négociations en matière de gestion environnementale entre les populations kanak et l’Administration témoignent d’un désir de réappropriation et de reformulation des liens avec la nature et les territoires. La notion de « liens » est en effet centrale dans l’évolution récente du droit environnemental et des dynamiques de protection des territoires marins. La légitimité territoriale revendiquée, en particulier la continuité terre-mer, constitue la projection des représentations et de la manière d’être au monde. Elle participe de l’ordre social et des relations qui lient les humains entre eux, au monde invisible des ancêtres et aux non-humains. L’implication des habitants kanak des littoraux du Grand Sud calédonien dans la gestion d’aires marines protégées et les expérimentations socioéconomiques locales appellent un changement de paradigme en matière de gestion et de conservation de l’environnement : il s’agit avant tout de maintenir un mode de vie, dont la soutenabilité réside dans la capacité des sociétés contemporaines à construire du sens et à entretenir les liens entre les humains et avec le territoire.

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Locality, Mobility and Governmentality in Colonial/Postcolonial New Caledonia: The case of the Kouare tribe (xûâ Xârâgwii), Thio (Cöö)

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Mining and Competing Sovereignties in New Caledonia

Mining and Competing Sovereignties in New Caledonia

Contested sites, land claims and economic development in Poum, New Caledonia

La dynamique des pratiques change-t-elle la manière de penser les relations kanak aux continuités terre-mer et à la nature ?

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