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Marin, Léonie. "Les revendications médiatisées kanak." Paris 8, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA083534.
Full textThis research aims to study the mediated claims of Kanak people from New Caledonia, an overseas collectivity of French in a process of self-determination. In its contemporary context, we define the notion of claim by analyzing its processes, which enable self-definition and self-representation. These new perspectives have created a dynamic of ideological political, social, economic and cultural confrontations, which contribute to social change. Since the late 1960s, with the advent of political parties' media, the mediatization of the forms of communication of Kanak people has evolved, due to a proliferation of claims and identification processes. In this perspective, a field survey in France and Oceania has allowed us to intersect an in situ ethnographic approach with a discursive analysis of mediated interactions on the Internet, covered by Communication Science. The complementarity of these approaches intends to contribute to the deepening of a digital anthropology. Within the Internet sphere, the appropriation of digital media devices, as well as the self-publishing of mediated interactions renew the individual communicational practices and generate debates. While these debates may give rise to conflicts, they may also become a favorable modality for intercultural exchange. In addition, contemporary communication tactics allow a renewal of the ways to participate individually and collectively, by creating new forms of social and political engagement
Edo, Junko. "Narratives of 'Kanak identity' in New Caledonia - its concepts and history of Kanak identity struggle." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/10789.
Full textGuillemard, Nicolas. "L'identité kanak, du clan à la nation." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ51143.pdf.
Full textGauthier, Jacques. "Education et développement : les écoles populaires Kanak." Paris 8, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA08A004.
Full textBorn in 1985, the kanak popular schools were an "analyser" of the contradictions of the independentist movement in newcaledonia. They offered a new status to country people, to women and to children, which engendered much resistance. Pupils constitute the moving force of a development which is generated in their environment to give energy to this environment. The pedagogy used has something to do with the pedagogy of the the oppressed. In order to undestand what is, consciously or unconsciously, at stake in the kanak popular schools, the autor placing himself in a position of intercultural interview, analyses the process of genesis of the concepts, invents a method of speech analysis about official reports of the kanak popular schools inspired by the theory of catastrophes, and analyses his own institutional implication, including through poetic writing
CAUSSIN, PLENUS DELPHINE. "La nouvelle-caledonie a l'epreuve de la contestation kanak." Nice, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998NICE0050.
Full textMouchenik, Yoram. "L'enfant vulnérable : psychothérapie transculturelle en pays Kanak, Nouvelle Calédonie /." [Grenoble] : Éd. la Pensée sauvage, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb391488342.
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Graille, Caroline. "Des Militants aux Professionnels de la Culture : les représentations de l'identité kanak en Nouvelle-Calédonie (1975-2015)." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015MON30043/document.
Full textA symbol of “Kanak culture revival”, the festival of Melanesian arts Melanesia 2000 has just celebrated in 2015 its 40th anniversary. This event was in all likelihood the cultural catalyst for the nationalist movement which in the 1980’s successfully established la coutume (“kastom”) as a unifying symbol for the Kanak people in opposition to the colonial status quo. Having been engaged for more than two decades in a process of decolonization – the political and constitutional outcome of which remains uncertain – New Caledonia is now experiencing the effects of a policy of rebalancing in favour of the indigenous people, notably in the form of an unprecedented appreciation of Kanak cultural identity, the preservation of tangible and intangible heritage and the active promotion of cultural development and artistic creation within a wider Pacific cultural context.It is important to retrace the genesis of the “Kanak renaissance” in light of the epistemological discussions that animated Oceanian anthropology in the period, especially the debates around the (re)invention of traditions and their instrumentalization to promote identity consciousness and political mobilization. The social sciences – and especially anthropology – make it possible to place in historical perspective the ongoing process of the making of cultures as collective identities that are objectified, put on display and sanctified (or not) through their official recognition and inscription within the public arena. With the emergence of a new cultural field entirely dedicated to “the management of symbols” (Dubois, 1999), ethnographical research carried out with the social actors makes it possible to show that the representations of Kanak identity that were for a long time the domain of indigenous militants and engaged intellectuals are now the domain of curators and managers of art and cultural heritage.Finally, this largely retrospective study aims at a better epistemological and sociological understanding of social and cultural change in New Caledonia in the period since the hardening of Kanak nationalism (1975-1988) up until the multi-cultural project for a “shared future” brought about by the application of the Noumea Accord (1998-2018)
Pantz, Pierre Christophe. "Géopolitique des territoires kanak : décolonisation et reconquête plurielle des territoires." Thesis, Paris 1, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA010685.
Full textFor almost 70 years, the Kanak people have moved from the world of the invisible to the world of the visible. Invisible, for until 1946, the Kanaks - aboriginal people of New Caledonia - were parked into reservations, kept away from the Western mind. Dealing with a people that were fundamentaly linked to their originary land, the colonial administration had made a choice of imposing itself through land management. In answer to this spatial soumission, the end of the « indigénat » status in 1946 revealed a people’s ambition to recover their territorial identity. In order to reach it, the Kanak people will have to take new paths. This research work proposes an analysis of the different types of reconfiguration concerning the Kanak territories (electoral, customary, economics and urban) and put in perspective the interrelationships that animate these transformations. Are these land reconfigurations, in the broadest sense of the term, participating to a more general phenomenon of reconquest of the New Caledonian space ? If today, the main role of the Kanak territories into the post-colonial Caledonian society has undoubtedly been established by the Matignon Accords (1988) and the Noumea Accords (1998), this thesis is more broadly giving thought to the territorial dimension inside the decolonisation process
Doelrasad, Julia. "La littérature kanak francophone entre revendication d'identité culturelle et interculturalité." Poitiers, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006POIT5002.
Full textColombani, Hélène. "L'imaginaire dans le mythe canaque : analyse des images, symboles et archétypes dans les mythes canaques." Thesis, Grenoble, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012GRENL015.
Full textWhile scientific progress offers unimaginable opportunities, constraints of industrialization, urbanization and modern technology never cease to reverse the field of the intangible and spiritual. Long spared Oceania remains a privileged space where the impregnation of traditions and nature remained alive and meaningful. “Imagination in Kanak myths” is the subject of our research, the opening of a novel exploratory field which leads to the revelation of the “Real hidden” bases this approach. The contribution of the study and research of the first missionaries, linguists and anthropologists has provided a set of data and myths that describe and interpret the organization of the Kanak society, its customs and traditions. Investigations of ethnology remained away from traditional theories and discoveries of the Imaginary Freud, Jung and Bachelard were precursors. We will call the methods of analysis and investigation of the collective unconscious and depth psychology, to fit the field of mythology Kanak. The implementation of a corpus of myths collected at the beginning of colonization, explains the structural composition of each story, which develops their “genetic identification card”, and imagine a new method of exploring the world of myths. Implementation of “mythocritic” Gilbert Durand adapted and supplemented by mythanalysis, performs an exploratory mythodologie of the imaginary of " sermo mythicus". Constellations of images, symbols and archetypes decrypted in these ancient myths, then reveal the deep semantic as well as joining the universal archetypes. Our aim is to highlight the relevance of previous theories that have revolutionized such fields as psychology, philosophy, and literature up and opening new horizons for the interpretation of oral traditions which are major among the most old Oceania, and to confirm their rich symbolism and their contribution to the knowledge of Anthropos that Leenhard had emphasized
Boulay, Roger. "La Grande case kanak de Nouvelle-Calédonie : les rapports entre architecture et sculpture en Nouvelle-Calédonie." Paris 1, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA010659.
Full textKouneski, Elena G. "Mitochondrial DNA origins and affinities of the Kanak of New Caledonia." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2009.
Find full textFaurie, Mathias. "Ouvéa : le sanctuaire kanak. Dynamiques patrimoniales et recompositions territoriales en Nouvelle-Calédonie." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040116.
Full textUvea, “the nearest island to heaven”, is a small atoll of the Loyalty Islands archipelago situated at the east of the Mainland of New Caledonia, forming with it a French overseas territory. Its lagoon and its magnificent beaches, an impressive and healthy biodiversity, a Kanak society deeply anchored in tradition and a past of sacrifices made in the fight for independence, make Uvea a real sanctuary of natural and cultural heritage left untouched by the great transformations of our times and endowed with a strong symbolic value for the whole of New Caledonia.Having been established as a solid foundation of the identity claims and the fight for Kanak independence in the years 1970 to 1980, the concept of heritage has now become a major pillar of the project of creating a Caledonian society, uniting all communities and advancing at the same time the economic development. The patrimonialisation is perceived as a virtuous circle, precondition and result of a sustainable development at the same time and seems to guide all the policies of New Caledonia, at least in the dominant discourse: what characterizes the current period is the idea of an “all embracing heritage”.This dissertation in geography develops an analysis of the patrimonialisation on the island of Uvea by characterizing the impact of this dynamic process within the whole of New Caledonia and by identifying its limits. After having analyzed the role of ‘heritage’ in the structural development of Caledonian society in the course of its history, I will present concrete and current case studies carried out in the field: the patrimonialisation of nature through the inscription of the Uvean lagoon in the World Heritage List of Unesco, the patrimonialisation of agriculture through the attempt to promote its specific characteristics, and of history through the recording of Caledonian memory in the form of movies. From the local to the global level, in the framework of a territorial restructuring, the concept of an all-embracing heritage seems to be at the same time one of the opportunities and one of the blind spots which characterize our times
Kowasch, Matthias. "Les Kanak face au développement de l'industrie du nickel en Nouvelle-Calédonie." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010MON30069/document.
Full textCurrently, two metal processing plants are built in New Caledonia. In contrast with the policy of territorial balance, supported by the Koniambo Project, the Goro Nickel Project will nurture the economic pre-eminence of the capital Nouméa. The inhabitants of the Kanak villages Gatope, Oundjo, Baco and Netchaot, located near by the future “factory of the north”, are generally speaking in favour of the nickel project. They not only regard the construction of the factory as a political instrument for the emancipation of the Kanakian population, but, above all, associate the project with the hope of a job. On the other hand, they fear negative impacts on the environment, especially concerning the lagoon and the mangrove forests. The term “environment”, however, does not only embrace the physical, but also the cultural environment. Identity-establishing holy sites are to be found ashore as well as in the sea. Alongside the opportunity to get a job at the nickel enterprise, the foundation of a supplier and the purchase of stocks, the valorisation of customary represents a chance to participate in the Koniambo Project. Baco is provided with the best premises to integrate its GDPLs into the economic process of the region VKP. But the valorisation of estates thus forms also displays the repeated conflict over the land issue among the clans. Whereas some Kanak make use of the economic development, others will likely suffer from such a marginalisation
Im Neukaledonien entstehen zwei neue Metallverarbeitungsfabriken. Während das Koniambo-Projekt die Politik des räumlichen Ausgleichs unterstützt, wird das Goro-Nickel-Projekt die wirtschaftliche Vorrangstellung der Hauptstadt Nouméa fördern. Die Einwohner der Kanak-Dörfer Gatope, Oundjo, Baco und Netchaot, in der Nähe der zukünftigen „Fabrik des Nordens“ gelegen, haben eine im Großen und Ganzen positive Meinung von dem Nickelprojekt. Sie sehen im Bau der Fabrik nicht nur ein politisches Instrument für die Emanzipation der kanakischen Bevölkerung, sondern verbinden mit dem Projekt vor allem die Hoffnung auf einen Arbeitsplatz. Auf der anderen Seite fürchten sie negative Auswirkungen auf die Umwelt. Der Begriff „Umwelt“ steht jedoch nicht nur für die physische Umwelt, sondern auch für die kulturelle. Sowohl an Land als auch im Meer finden sich Heiligenstätten, die einen identitätsstiftenden Wert haben. Neben der Möglichkeit eines Arbeitsplatzes beim Nickelunternehmen, der Gründung eines Zuliefererunternehmens und dem Kauf von Aktien bildet die gewinnbringende Bewirtschaftung von Ländereien eine Chance zur Partizipation am Koniambo-Projekt. Von den vier untersuchten Kanak-Dörfern verfügt Baco über die besten Voraussetzungen zur Integration in die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung der Region VKP. Die gewinnbringende Bewirtschaftung von Ländereien zeigt aber auch, dass es immer wieder zu Streitigkeiten zwischen den Clans um die Landfrage kommt. Auf der einen Seite steht eine schnelle wirtschaftliche Entwicklung, auf der anderen Seite neue soziale Disparitäten, welche die Entwicklung nach sich zieht. Während einige Kanak die Entwicklung nutzen können, werden andere wahrscheinlich untere einer verstärkten Marginalisierung leiden
Grochain, Sonia. "Les Kanak et le travail en Province Nord de la Nouvelle-Calédonie." Paris, EHESS, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007EHES0297.
Full textThis thesis studying the employment situation in the northern Province of New Caledonia, where are living most of Kanak, indigenous people of this island, who are also struggle for independance. It's to show that the consequences of the struggle for independance are important to understand and explain the employment situation actually. Generally, it's the actions of autochthon people to take care of their economical and political destiny, during colonization and decolonization period, who are studying in this thesis. Different analysis are to show how the employment question is less a category of economic anthropology than politic anthropology by the case that this question had often find solution after political conflicts, the violent conflict between 1984 and 1988 is one the most example. It's, to resume, the employment and conflict rapport who are studying in this thesis, by the theory of Georges Balandier developing the idea that we can't understand the social without studying the conflicts in the society
Small, D. "The Politics of Colonial Education in New Caledonia." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Education, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/815.
Full textSinclair-Reynolds, Emma. "(Re)writing Pathways : Oral Tradition, Written Tradition, and Identity Construction in Kanaky/Nouvelle-Calédonie." Thesis, Nouvelle Calédonie, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014NCAL0066/document.
Full textHow might Kanak oral traditions move beyond their usual boundaries and influence identity construction processes in contemporary New Caledonian society? This thesis explores the interactions between Kanak oral tradition and New Caledonian written tradition, by examining the (re)writings that are places of encounter between these traditions, and thus constitute a space of shared heritage. This study traces the pathways taken by a story, Le Chef et le lézard, (a number of versions of which are found in different Kanak oral traditions), as it moves into and within written tradition. The historical, political, and literary contexts of the (re)writing processes that produce versions of Le Chef et le lézard are elucidated, to demonstrate the forces at work and shed light on how the representations that figure in the (re)writings might participate in identity construction processes. The conceptual tools used in the study include: rewriting; vā (the relational space of exchange and encounter found throughout Oceania); and literature as a means of building community. The original contribution of this thesis has been to demonstrate the degree and the extent of the integration of a Kanak story into the New Caledonian literary polysystem; to highlight the active role played by Kanak actors in the rewriting process; to develop anextended geographic metaphor for the New Caledonian literary landscape; to bear witness to the richness of oral and written traditions in Kanaky/Nouvelle-Calédonie; and to create a bridge between non-Francophone researchers/readers and New Caledonian literature (oral and written)
Kurtovitch, Ismet. "La vie politique en nouvelle-caledonie : 1940-1953." Pacifique, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PACI0023.
Full textThis thesis deals with political history of new caledonia between 1940 and 1953, key period in the life of this settlers' colony in melanesia. "the period, warns jean mariotti, is not favourable to peaceful evocations. We presently live in a world of difficult gestation. The atmosphere is heavy, overcharged with electricity, highly affecting the nerve system and susceptibility". Contemporary new caledonia gets from this its main political determinations. During the war, segregationist caledonian society quickly breaks down while europeans get to power as the central state is weakening. This will not continue as the antifascist victory, on 8 may 1945, prepares a reform of the colonial pact. This is the main subject of this thesis
Desroches-Maheux, Ève. "Quotidien et implication citoyenne : regard anthropologique sur la jeunesse kanak à Koné (Nouvelle-Calédonie)." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/27187.
Full textThis master thesis seeks to demystify the diverse experiences of youth in New Caledonia and explores the manifestations of agency by a particular group of young Kanak as they take part in a “collective form of existence” (vivre ensemble) in New Caledonia. The group is composed of young men and women of Koné involved in associations governed by the law established on July 1st 1901 and whose activities primarily revolve around a house located in the Cigales neighbourhood and it’s household. The analysis reveals that youth experiences and practices cannot be reduced to the representations put forward by dominant discourses. These, in fact, wrongly portray young Kanak as being trapped in an unchanged and immobile ancestral culture, and focus primarily on their inadequacy in today’s world as well as on their problems. It is argued that young Kanak possess creative capacities, want to contribute to society and aspire, for most of all, to take an active and vocal part in it. This research further shows that their experiences and initiatives must be contextualised, meaning considered in relation to the contemporary “situation” (social, political and economic) brought by the Nouméa Accord of 1998 according to which these are shaped. Keywords: Kanak, New Caledonia, Youth, shared destiny, citizenship, everyday life, urban milieu, indigenous people.
Kowasch, Matthias [Verfasser]. "Les populations Kanak face au développement de l’industrie du nickel en Nouvelle-Calédonie / Matthias Kowasch." Heidelberg : Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1180526740/34.
Full textPatane, Frédéric. "Les représentations sociales du handicap en milieu kanak et leurs résonances sur les pratiques sociales." Thesis, Lyon, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LYSE2114.
Full textThe multicultural issue of disability in New Caledonia became a central issue when, in 2009, the territory adopted a law in favour of people with disabilities, modelled on a Western model. By institutionalizing the care of the handicap, the public authorities weaken the kanak local solidarity. The study of the representations and social practices of disability in the kanak world makes it possible to understand the impact that this legislative framework can have on families and persons with disabilities. In order to legitimize our anthropological approach, we show that disability is a culturally based situation. The study of available data on disability in the oceanic and kanak world in particular reveals the diversity of practices according to economic and social contexts. Semi-structured interviews and participant observation, carried out in tribal and urban areas, show that the magico-religious approach occupies an important place in the interpretation of disability. In the kanak world, interpreting disability means, in the end, looking for what lies behind a biomedical explanation. In addition, while the kanak custom guarantees protection and solidarity of proximity towards people with disabilities, it encourages their social participation only through traditional activities.In 2009, the legislative framework in favour of people with disabilities introduces foreign concepts to kanak culture such as disability rate, loss of autonomy, life project. Moreover, as a factor of individualization, it weakens traditional solidarity based on family networks of dependence and protection.The Western system, by investing in the field of disability, leads Kanak to question the level of cultural differentiation they want to preserve in terms of caring for the most vulnerable
Gutjahr, Eva. "Entre tradições orais e registros da oralidade indígena." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8134/tde-04052009-155701/.
Full textThis study focus on the relationships between oral traditions, and products and events related to the documentation of indigenous oral sayings from the starting point of two case-studies of different scales: Xavante, from the Pimentel Barbosa village in Central Brazil, and Kanak, from the islands of New Caledonia, in Melanesia. For each of this cases I intended the search for relations or rhizomes, in order to identify effects that documentation of oral statements, narratives and sayings produced in the point of view of their very actors. I call such effects proliferation, resistance or indifference. Basing my analysis in expressive and discourse-mediated interaction as considered adequate by these populations in specific contexts, I wished to reflect on traditions as announced, in situations that demand the institutionalization of patrimonies and identities, as well as identify ways that documentation practices and products are invested by these people according to their own dynamic forms of creativity and innovation. My objective was to establish, through making these two cases comparables, a critical reflection on the contemporary intangible cultural heritage policies based on the safeguarding of oral traditions and expressions of indigenous people.
Wadrawane, Eddy. "L'école aux marges de la tribu : approche anthropologique des stratégies d'accueil et d'intégration de l'institution scolaire en Nouvelle-Calédonie (Provinces Nord et Iles)." Thesis, Bordeaux 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010BOR21769/document.
Full text"Here is the school of leadership. Teachers are appointed with the consent of the tribe and chiefdom. Here, there is a great leader, the small head and the pastor and after administration [...]. The school, it belongs to gavaman (Governor). This has been going. It's all in the domain of Ledran (public space). But all this rests on our land. " The response of the dignitary of the tribe of Padawa on Maré Island in New Caledonia, Monday, March 3, 1983 raised the triggers for reflection on the spatial arrangement of the school Kanak tribe. The expression used by the dignitary clannish, "it sits on our land," even if it makes us confused about the spatial location of the school, however it gives us the opportunity of a social anthropological approach and an angle review reports progressive policy related to the history of inclusion and integration of groups and Aboriginal objects in space. The preposition "on" position involves what is on the surface of what is under the authority transient, as opposed to internally; "under" customary land is space, space for rooting. The dichotomy between "on" and "below" refers to spatial concepts such as greeting and welcoming, understood as a representation of order of arrival in the socialized space, the tribe. This order of occupation becomes a strong argument for the claim to legitimacy among Aboriginal people themselves and between indigenous and others. The vital microespaces are managed according to the order of integration and localization of objects or groups of the collective. This distinction occupying space can then elucidate the paradoxical location of the school to the example of one of the tribe of Padawa, which alone, like a border guard post on the borders of the tribe. Nothing is less straightforward in the Kanak community where space and its management are not ephemera even evanescent. Based on the qualitative method through social discursively, our thoughts on the place of the school in kanak tribes not only probes into the indigenous intention to paradoxically posit the infrastructure but also, because it opposes two different kinds of space - esoteric and exoteric, into the way indigenous knowledge, scholar knowledge and island knowledge may come into competition in not so clear strategies of the political anthropologization of space, generated by a combination of perspectives. The sake of research of dynamic equilibrium, following the integration of school space by rewording and rearrangement lead to the emergence Standing under barycentric space built and implicitly expected by the Agreements, modern space that we would like appoint, Public Space of the country, where new space is dialogic discourse to confront various cultural texts and complex. In addition, our analysis would reconsider these complex spaces indigenous identity when, in the context of parole "unbalancing" the native risk his extradition in a suffocating world of formatting, in which everything is a pretext to swallow what is identity, as form of dehumanization by dispossessing the ability to think ... ... and the world as noble human activity. Would not that our challenge?
Bretteville, Dominique. "L'os et le souffle : le système social et cosmique d'une société kanak de Nouvelle-Calédonie : les Paimboas." Paris, EHESS, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002EHES0099.
Full textDotte, Anne-Laure. "Le iaai aujourd'hui : Évolutions sociolinguistiques et linguistiques d'une langue kanak de Nouvelle-Calédonie (Ouvéa, Iles Loyauté)." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LYO20107/document.
Full textThis PhD thesis describes the current situation of Iaai (an Oceanic language from the Austronesian family) and provides an analysis of its dynamics. As a minority Kanak language of New Caledonia, engaged in a process of intense contact with French, Iaai is experiencing significant changes both on a linguistic and sociolinguistic aspect. This thesis adopts an approach that is both dual and complementary. On the one hand, it offers an evaluation of modern Iaai’s sociolinguistic vitality, crossing different factors from the social and ethno-linguistic context together with the high variety of speakers, typical of endangered languages. On the other hand, the analysis focuses on language change by addressing three particularly interesting themes in Iaai: (i) evolution in the system of possessive classifiers; (ii) strategies of neology and of modernization of the lexicon; (iii) the particular case of verbal borrowings. The study of these changes is based on the linguistic description of Iaai made by Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre (1976, 1984) which is compared with modern data collected during three fieldworks conducted in Ouvea since 2009, as well as through sustained collaboration with a native speaker informant in Lyon. Finally, this research highlights the intertwining of different dynamics in Iaai between modernization, obsolescence and linguistic resilience
Jaumouillié, Anne-Laure. "Entre sagaïes et médailles : processus colonial de reconnaissance des chefs kanak en Nouvelle-Calédonie, 1878-1946." La Rochelle, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007LAROF017.
Full textAs soon as New Caledonia got taken into possession, the colonial administration used the natives considered as chiefs to establish the French supervision. By using honorary distinctions, it settled a wide policy of recognition of the chiefs. Some of them seemed to have had dealed with the administrative employees, others rebelled or did both. Instead of considering those situations as loyalty, rejection or “double jeu”, this PhD consists in analysing them in a more global context by considering the Kanak chiefs in their own system of relationships. Inwa, relationship with the colons and colonial administrators are the framework. This work aims to deconstruct the idea of chiefs were either loyal or rebel and to show the complexity of the system in which every single actor of the colonisation participates. The itineraries of 36 leaders are analysed between 1878 – date of the first native rebellion – and 1917 – date of the last movement of the uprising. The leaders get little by little the methods of speech that will allow them to free themselves from the colonial pressures. The descendants of the chiefs are therefore also taken into account until the end of the “Code de l’Indigénat” in 1946. That in order to measure the strength of the transmission of the political speech they faced
Strains, Jessica Margaret Marie. "Aquí v Allá, Hier v Dort: The Role of Spanglish and Kanak Sprak in Identity formation." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1300550486.
Full textMarmouch, Maroua. "Transgenres en Nouvelle-Calédonie : discussions intimes sur des parcours de vie wallisiens et quelques parcours kanak." Paris, EHESS, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EHES0674.
Full textThis work aims at describing and understanding the phenomenon of the emergence of transgender individuals (Male to Female), its transformation and its increasing visibility today in urban context. The bulk of this work rests on the life’s trajectories of the main group of transgender living in Noumea, in New Caledonia: they are Wallisian and Futunian transgender, who have a “Polynesian” cultural background. A smaller part of them, are kanak, who have a “Melanesian” cultural background. Starting in the 1970s, in the urban region of Noumea, individuals who were born males, mostly from immigrant families of Wallisian and Futunian origins, began to adopt a feminine appearance and performance by wearing Western-style clothes and make-up. The emergence of a new transgender in Noumea is linked with the development of a new transgender lifestyle, the tai’ata (street sex work). Transgender sociability, sex, urban life-style and agency are the terms associated to tai’ata and to the modern, urban transgender. Today, this individuals look increasingly at modern technics of body transition (hormonal treatment, mammoplasty, vaginoplasty) in order to shape and define their conception of their own body, on the one hand, and at Western sexual categories such as “transsexuality” in order to define their sexuality, on the other hand. Living in a world of tensions between local values and globalization of Western categories and ideas, transgender of Wallisian and Futunian origins, along with a smaller number of Kanak transgender, develop strategies of resistance and negotiation in order to gain acceptance in their family and community sphere, as well as in their relationships involving friendship, love and sex
GENTILUCCI, MARTA. "LA MONTAGNA E IL CAPITALE. Etnografia di un progetto minerario indigeno kanak (Koniambo-Nickel, Nuova Caledonia)." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/286132.
Full textStarting from the fertile and dynamic context of the Northern Province of New Caledonia and the recent construction of a nickel processing industry, the thesis aims to bring out the peculiarity of a milieu in which it is the indigenous population itself, or rather a significant part of it, to engage in a deconstruction of a demonic and colonial conception of industrialisation. With a mix of ethnography and theoretical references aimed at showing the interaction between actors, practices and discourses, the thesis is divided into three macro-sections (political, environmental and economic), each presenting a different reading lens to analyse the same "object of study”: the engagement of Kanak in the mining and metallurgical sector. Specifically, the first part analyses how the Kanak independentists, majority shareholders of one of the most important nickel treatment plants in the world, organise the problematic coexistence between capitalism and moral economies in a period marked by a process of decolonisation. In the second part, mining activity is re-read through the lens of Kanak metaphysics. By analysing the intersection between the mining economy and the invisible world of spirits and ancestors, we overcome the idea of a culture and economy considered as "outside" the environment. The third part, finally, is dedicated to bring out the intertwining of local governance and corporate governance, as well as the economic modalities of inclusion (and exclusion) of the local community in the Koniambo project. This ethnographic case is peculiar in that it reveals an intermediate space to the rigid dichotomy between subjection and resistance. Kanaks, by decolonising nickel, try to shake off their colonial heritage while knowing that they remain somehow prisoners of it. They choose to do so by unleashing from within those mechanisms of inequality and exclusion produced by colonial policies and the French mining monopoly. They re-appropriate the resource by rethinking it according to a model that wants to differ from that of the classic enclave. It is not so much a process of indigenisation but a desire to be in "modernity" and in the global marketplace, while at the same time bringing its own cultural imprint. This thesis is not limited to a neoliberal and post-colonial reading that focuses on the dimensions of violence and exploitation, reducing the colonial encounter/clash to rigid dichotomies. Focusing the ethnographic lens only on the action of extracting the resource and removing the earth, there is a risk of "extrahĕre", "drawing out", even those margins and residues where capitalism and culture come into relation and contribute to create the "local". It is to the mountain that we turn our ethnographic gaze instead. This is not a mere material substratum that is the background of the encounter between the multinational company and the landscape, but a set of environmental relations and therefore of cultural practices. The mountain is where economic and religious forces intersect, where the search for a balance between coutume and contemporary business practices is played out and new models are established that recognise the social connection of businesses. It is in this sense that the “minescape" appears as a co-habitation of spaces, a configuration of human and non-human actors that is never given once and for all.
Cottereau-Reiss, Françoise. "Contribution à l'étude du développement cognitif chez les enfants kanak : représentations et significations d'une pratique d'espace : le Kellö." Montpellier 3, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997MON30004.
Full textWaminya, Richard. "De la conceptualisation implicite du nombre et des figures géométriques dans la culture drehu à leur conceptualisation explicite dans les mathématiques à l'école : étude exploratoire des interactions suscitées par les deux conceptualisations et de leurs effets à partir d'approches pédagogique, didactique et ethnomathématique." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011LYO20097/document.
Full textIn the disciplinary field of mathematics, the student Drehu has difficulty to master the knowledge taught. But in his daily life, he is surrounded by practices and cultural productions that present mathematical concepts that are studied in class. It notes that the low performance in mathematical activities are most often due to difficulties in adapting teaching methods of teachers or the assimilation of mathematical concepts. How, therefore, help these young drehu, from a cultural environment where the concepts are perceived implicitly, to integrate in a school environment where they are referred to? Taking account of the conceptualization of number and geometrical figures into the culture Drehu allows teachers to know how to teach math concepts implicit in the sociocultural environment of the child and especially the teaching methods developed by him. These socio-cultural contributions help the teacher to appropriate teaching strategies that promote better learning of mathematical concepts by students at school Drehu. These cultural knowledge serve as didactic crutch in the learning of school knowledge
Nayral, Mélissa. "Le chantier du politique : Étude anthropologique de la vie politique à Ouvéa (Nouvelle-Calédonie)." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM3107.
Full textBased on a microsocial ethnography, this thesis focuses on the political life of Ouvéa Island (New Caledonia) which can be considered as a constant ongoing building process.Using four case studies describing crisis, polemics or controversies, this thesis offers more general thoughts on the organization on how this political life is locally conceived and on the relationships of influence and of power it can generates.The analysis evolves around three major problematics. The « affaire de la grotte d’Ouvéa », which is the first one, demonstrates how historical events and their memory stakes are the foundation of the contemporary political life. The second one, questions « custom » as a standardized discourse, a relationship system and a political order. Its analyses shows that « custom » is not only organizing the daily life on a traditional way, but that it can also be used in order to serve more personal ambitions. The third problematic explores how both « custom » and « republican institutions » do articulate with eachother at the time of the implementation of the « french parity law ». The description of the « conseil municipal » (local Council) therefore provides us with general thoughts on gender relationships in Kanak society. The aim of this work is to demonstrate that the political life of Ouvéa is a paradoxal environment characterised by building as well as demolition and fixing activities. Being at the same time an agitated and motionless place, considering its past when looking forward to the future at the same time, the political life of Ouvéa, just like the elements which compose it, is both a changing and a dynamic object
Aupetit, Sylvine. "Rapprocher le droit de l’environnement et la réalité en Nouvelle-Calédonie : Des leviers d’amélioration de l’effectivité des normes juridiques environnementales en Nouvelle-Calédonie en faveur de la pérennité du patrimoine naturel." Thesis, Antilles, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020ANTI0531.
Full textHaste of biodiversity loss and climate change are notorious threat to mankind. Now, some reactions to both converging movements are a matter for human societies. We buy into the premise of politic aims in favor of the continuity of natural heritage. Law, that go with their implementation, can then be a shield for this natural heritage. Indeed, law is expected to actually channel people’s behaviour. Nevertheless, it does not always hits this target. New-Caledonia is a biodiversity hotspot where climate change can have huge impacts. It is also a very original status in the French Republic, that allows a local environmental legal system. Environmental law effectiveness is worth thinking about specifically in New-Caledonia. Two paths could lead to behaviours suiting closer to the law. First of them consists in adopting law in a way that eases its consistency and solidity, but also the harmonization of its contents with local reality. The second one aims to accompany the legal requirement with realistic sanctions, spurring on the people to respect them
Colombel, Claire. "Langues kanak, français, langues d'enseignement et de culture en Nouvelle Calédonie : Quelle glottopolitique pour quelle contextualisation sociodidactique ?" Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012AIXM3038.
Full textThis thesis has an inductive approach in line with an interpretativist paradigm intersecting between the fields of sociolinguistics and didactics in a pluri- diglossical context. This study seeks to describe and analyze the political, social and didactic issues raised by the new linguistic policy of New Caledonia initiated by the “Accord de Noumea” (1998). If the first request to recognize Kanak specificities (including languages) in school goes back to the early 1970's, the “Accord de Noumea” revitalized the “language issue” by stating, for the first time, that Kanak languages are teaching and culture language with French. The research consists of clarifying the choises made by the linguistic planners on the corpus and on the status of Kanak languages – raising their status medium of education. The theoretical contributions stemming from sociolinguistics, didactics, sociology and ethnomethodology complement each other to contextualize my fieldwork – a survey in six pre-schools in the “Grand Noumea”, three years long. The qualitative analyze of the data enables the better understanding how the political, social and didactic consensus reached with the “Accord de Noumea” is realized through the implementation of teaching (in) Kanak languages
Wamytan, Léon. "Peuple kanak et droit français : du droit de la colonisation au droit de la décolonisation, l'égalité en question." Thesis, Clermont-Ferrand 1, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013CLF10422.
Full textIf the shock of the colonization of New Caledonia evoked in the introduction of the agreement on New Caledonia of May 5th, 1998 is not to be any more demonstrated, themeans developed by the French law towards the people remain to be examined. Considering the particular relations that maintain Kanak in the land, the shock of the cultures is goi ng to be translated by the opposition of the rights be tween an unchanging custom, and a French law which makes sacred the private property, participat ing in the rights of man and the citizen. These senses of identity appropriate for the coloni zation of New Caledonia, took multiple legal forms, as for the very taking possession because the Kanak first people knows a treaty (1844), a taking possession in 1853, and acts of gratitude of sovere ignty were signed by leaders (1854 ) on the Big Earth 2 . Our permanent questioning is thus the one to know how the Kanak people underwent by virtue of the French law a fundamental upheaval of his vital land space, spheres of influence ofhis traditional chieftainships, a disintegration of his organizatio n endowed with his owncodes. The constitutional gratitude of a personal status a ppropriate for the first people in the agreement of Noumea of 1998, is going to allow to confirm and to assure the superiority of the usual uses, either i n this only domain, but for all which concerns the ci vil law. The renowned French law based on the equality. The application to the Kanak people of New Caledonia shows that this idea must be revised. So, it is about the period of the colonization ( 1st part)) and its negative discriminatory law wher e that of the decolonization (2eme left) and its posi tive discriminatory law, Kanak people knew and always knows different rules
Barnèche, Sophie. "L' identité linguistique et culturelle des jeunes de Nouméa : une étude des pratiques langagières dans la cité de Riverstar (Rivière-Salée)." Rouen, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004ROUEL489.
Full textNouméa, a fench city in the middle of Oceania, gives a singular exemple of plurilinguism and cultural contact. Many languages coexist, in the same time that they compete with french, the single official language ant the unique teaching medium. Our study intends to take stock of the situation of transmission and use of vernacular languages in urban context and to analyse their users' sociolinguistics representations about these languages and french language, representations which are, according to us, in the center of their linguistics choices. Then we propose an analysis of young Oceanians of Noumea's linguistics uses and representations which are revealing their identitary claims and their relations to society. We attempt to analyse the various components, between vernacular language and french language, between traditional model and occidental model, that take part in young urban Oceanians' identitary building processus
Zongo, Paul Humuni. "Caractéristiques anthropométriques et physiologiques des jeunes Kanak : influence du mode de vie sur la santé en nouvelle-Calédonie." Thesis, Antilles, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017ANTI0207/document.
Full textThe New Caledonian people have undergone profound changes over the last thirty years with a quick changing environment and population lifestyle. These changes have a determining role in the evolution of the body composition evolution and physical condition for adults but also for adolescents and especially kanak adolescents. Indeed, young Kanak live, for some, in a rural environment in tribes and, for others, in an urban environment. This implies different behaviours depending on their living place. Thus, we focused our work on this youth (aged 11 to 30) by studying the body composition (anthropometric data) and the physiological variables (physical fitness and physical activity) in federal sports and schools. The studies led us to the conclusion that: 1) kanak athletes are shorter, more agile and explosive, and are better at repeating sprints with and without change of direction compared to young non-Kanak athletes. 2) These young kanak athletes are able to practice in high intensity efforts with a significant capacity for recovery, without affecting their well-being during a high level competition. 3) For adolescents aged 11 to 16, the rural environment is suitable for high physical activity and physical fitness, particularly among boys. However, a significant fat mass accumulation among girls living in rural and urban areas as well as urban boys has been observed. These data suggest a change in adolescent behaviors. The work findings highlight the importance in developing a health education policy aimed at behavioral changes in lifestyle (diet, physical activity and time spent inactive) among the kanak youth
Salaün, Marie. "Les kanaks et l'école : socio-histoire de la scolarisation des Mélanésiens de Nouvelle-Calédonie (1853-1998)." Paris, EHESS, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000EHES0010.
Full textNicolas, Hélène. "La fabrique des époux : Approche anthropologique et historique du mariage, de la conjugalité et du genre (Lifou, Nouvelle Calédonie)." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012AIXM3138/document.
Full textThe research subject of this thesis is marriage and conjugality on Lifou, an island of New Caledonia, from 1842, the beginning of evangelization, up until the present day. By studying socialization for marriage, matrimonial rituels and their transformations, it seeks to make a contribution to knowledge of the gender system of this Kanak region. Ceremonial life on Lifou today is governed by opulent marriage rituals. The age group system makes marriage an obligatory passage without which an individual cannot become an "adult" (nyipi atr). Once married, the productive and reproductive capacities of the wife belong to her husband. During ceremonial marriage exchanges, a veritable "war of gifts", the totality of the relatives who constitute the network of the two kinship groups present is reactivated. Honouring the members of ones kinship and alliance networks involves accepting marriage or a conjugal relationship. Marriage and conjugality were transformed by the action of the Christian missionaries who sought to replace the local model of separation and antagonism between the sexes by a gender system based on the conjugal couple, in which "the man is the head and the woman the body". Under the system of Native Regulations (régime de l’indigénat), colonial laws strengthened a husband's rights over his wife and considerably reduced the latter's freedom of action. It was only in 1946 (the end of the system of Native Regulations), and during the independence protests in the 1980s, that the women of Lifou gained new room for manoeuvre and could thus oppose a husband's unilateral exercise of power
Horowitz, Leah Sophie, and LeahH@ihug com au. "Stranger in One's Own Home : a micropolitical ecological analysis of the engagements of Kanak villagers with a multinational mining project in New Caledonia." The Australian National University. Faculty of Science, 2003. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20031015.150235.
Full textWamo, Albert. "Photolangage pour accueillir la vulnérabilité psychique en groupe : "un groupe expérientiel en tribu avec des filles mères célibataires kanak"." Thesis, Normandie, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019NORMR137.
Full textHow to identify and treat the psychic vulnerability of the young Kanak mother whose child is given to another for adoption? We try to answer this question by sharing our experience from a focus group with mediation within a tribe in New Caledonia. We explain how the adjustment of photolanguage adapted to the cultural universe of our subjects plays a role in the development of discussion within the group. Inspired by the group psychic apparatus approach, we explore associative processes in the treatment of previous sufferings. Using our adaptation of the photolanguage tool, we have focused on the following elements: the attachment to the land, the attachment to the importance of a Kanak’s first name, the relationship with the maternal uncle and the link to the status of women in Kanak society. We demonstrate the importance of these links through their organizing effects on intersubjective relationships. However, on the negative side, these links can uncover legacies that are as yet undeclared and can also be a source of toxic psychic changes and influences. We highlight precisely the symbolic importance of re-positioning the subject within their cultural universe, both in the collective and individual sense. Our work is for all those who care about patients and want to understand the Kanak world and its issues
Silve, Nicole Meirieu Philippe. "Savoir kanak, savoir blanc les transferts de savoir entre tradition écrite et tradition orale à travers des textes d'élèves /." [S. l.] : [s. n.], 1998. http://demeter.univ-lyon2.fr:8080/sdx/theses/lyon2/1999/giraudi_n.
Full textMadinier, Anne-Lise. "L’Etat-nation face à la revendication autochtone : Essai sur les institutions juridiques kanakes en Nouvelle-Calédonie." Thesis, Perpignan, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PERP0005.
Full textSince the 1998 Noumea Accord and the recognition of the Kanak identity, the International Register of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has appeared in New Caledonia. Since the Matignon Agreement of 1989, the doctrine has focused on the sovereignty of New Caledonia, the indigenous issue is now a new aspect of Kanak decolonization. It is not directly claimed for independence, but for the rights of indigenous peoples. This point of view emancipates itself from the classical monist doctrine of the nation state, considering that other entities can claim self-determination by recognizing a proper legal system. A review of the 1958 Constitution and the analysis of administrative and judicial practices demonstrate the ability of French law to take into account the aspirations and particularities of the Kanake society. Beyond the Noumea Accord, an alternative reflection is proposed based on comparatism with Canadian law
Soriano, Éric. "Une trajectoire du politique en Mélanésie : construction identitaire et formation d'un personnel politique : l'exemple Kanak de Nouvelle-Calédonie, 1946-1999." Montpellier 1, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000MON10021.
Full textHorowitz, Leah Sophie. "Stranger in one's own home : a micropolitical ecological analysis of the engagements of Kanak villagers with a multinational mining project in New Caledonia /." View thesis entry in Australian Digital Theses Program, 2003. http://thesis.anu.edu.au/public/adt-ANU20031015.150235/index.html.
Full textDotte-Sarout, Émilie. ""Le bois ancêtre" : arbres, forêts et occupation kanak précoloniale sur la Grande Terre de Nouvelle-Calédonie : étude de cas et approche anthracologique dans la vallée de la Tiwaka (Nord Est)." Paris 1, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA010532.
Full textPetersson, Nickel Ute. "Yo Alta, verpiss dir - hier is mein Revier! : die "Selbst"-darstellung junger Männer in Feridun Zaimoglus Kanak Sprak: 24 Misstöne vom Rande der Gesellschaft." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-75556.
Full textMadinier, Anne-Lise. "L'État-nation face à la revendication autochtone : essai sur les institutions juridiques kanakes en Nouvelle-Calédonie." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37625.
Full textMartin, Alain. "La représentation du monde canaque dans l'oeuvre de Georges Baudoux (1870-1949)." Paris 8, 1995. http://octaviana.fr/document/172678447#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0.
Full textThe aim of the thesis entitled la representation du monde canaque dans l'oeuvre de georges baudoux (1870-1949) (representation of the kanak world in the work of georges baudoux (1870-1949) is to understand kanak civilisation as portrayed in the writings of a new caledonian author. The first approach endeavours to give legitimacy to the factors which make baudoux a genuine author and to define a "new caledonian reading pact" recognisable in "details" such as baudoux's description of history, mastery of place names, descriptions of the island and its fauna, flora and typical characters as well as their speech, without neglecting his preconceived ideas, processes, lexicon, metaphors, cliches, etc. There follows an analysis of legendes canaques (kanak legends) stressing baudoux's style peculiarities and the literary representation of kanak characters in their essence and acts. The second analytical stand point is posited on the assumption that these kanak characters can only be understood within the bounds of their sacred, mythical, ritual and warrior society. An attempt is made to define the effect of myths, the importance of rites and the organisation of symbols and warfare. But this ethnographic approach reveals as much as it conceals, stresses certain acts (feasting, transgressions, cannibalism) and puts over other points of view. The "third reading" concentrates on the moral attitude of the "white" narrator who criticises the values and beliefs of the kanaks, in the name of a racist ideology. But the work also reveals other value systems-those of the informants, and of the kanak and mixed-race characters which give the work its richness and its multiple registers
Illouz, Charles. "Les fils du lézard : trilogie matrimoniale en Mélanésie." Paris, EPHE, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989EPHE5006.
Full textThe analysis of the Mare mythology (Loyalty islands), supported by a body of a one hundred stories, has enabled the author to observe that there is a huge symbolic operation taking place: the sea world creatures are opposed to the air world creatures, and are involved in a sort of "flesh" negotiation whose creatures of the creeping world offer the go-between. It is through these three main categories which shape the basis of a real mythological rhetoric, that the place taken by the concepts of name, envelope, cannibalism is apprehended. The myths, then, seem to have many discourses focused on the matrimonial quest and the strategy of alliances