Naepels, Houaïlou, Conjurer la Guerre.

Violence et pouvoir à Houaïloi (Nouvelle-Calédonie). Collection En temps & lieux, 41.
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  • Condition : very good, clean, minor signs of shelf wear.
  • Illustrations : some black and white photos.


    In the early 1990s, when Michel Naepels first arrived in Houaïlou, a small coastal town in New Caledonia, the archipelago was emerging from a major political crisis. Riots, hostage-taking and assassinations punctuated four years of violent opposition between the French government and Kanak independence supporters. The signing of the Matignon Accords, which ratified the principle of a referendum for the right to self-determination of the indigenous population, officially put an end to this civil conflict. In his early ethnographic work, the author explained that not all the tensions were resolved, but rather renewed. In this book, Michel Naepels, now director of studies at the EHESS, shows how contemporary Kanak social and political relations are rooted in a history of a century and a half of colonial violence. For this project of political anthropology, the methodology deployed claims to be pragmatic, that is to say, it takes into account actual practices, infinitesimal mechanisms, and diverse, heterogeneous and complex power relations (p. 11). Organised in six chapters, the book is presented as a series of cuts through colonial and postcolonial history, with as a guiding thread 'the examination of indecisive moments of change, where the modalities of self-government and the government of others are re-articulated' (p. 14). Discord, division, quarrel, violence and compromise, as conventions for the use of violence, are the levers of a meticulous analysis, from which the continuity of the logics of action and relations between the interests of the administration and Kanak interests gradually emerges.

 

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Condition Used - Very Good
Language France
Illustrated No
Publicaton Date Jan 1, 2013
Year 2013
Author / Cartographer / Photographer Naepels Michel
Editor EHESS
First edition Yes
Signed edition No
Signed binding No
Armorial binding No
Binding / Format Softcover
Size 24 x 16 cm
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