Tropes of (mis)understanding: imagining shared destinies in New Caledonia, 1853-1998

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Cet article amorce une réflexion critique sur le préambule de l?accord de Nouméa en lisant ce dernier texte par rapport à une histoire plus longue de tentatives officielles et non-officielles pour imaginer ou définir les rapports entre les Kanaks, les colons et l?État français. Nous examinerons comment les destins des divers groupes ethniques ont été envisagés après les périodes de conflit et nous remarquerons l?accent mis sur les tropes de la mésentente ou de l?incompréhension dans l?explication de ces mêmes conflits.The paper critically assesses the preamble to the 1998 Nouméa Accord by reading it against a longer history of official and unofficial attempts to imagine or define relationships between Kanaks, settlers and the French State. Particular attention is paid to the way in which the destinies of the different ethnic groups have been imagined following periods of conflict and the way that tropes of misunderstanding or incomprehension have been used to account for such conflicts.

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Muckle, A. (2007). Tropes of (mis)understanding: imagining shared destinies in New Caledonia, 1853-1998. Journal de La Société Des Océanistes, (124), 105–118. https://doi.org/10.4000/jso.819

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