New Caledonia. : An article from: The Contemporary Pacific [HTML]

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This digital document is an article from The Contemporary Pacific, published by University of Hawaii Press on September 22, 2002. The length of the article is 4736 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation Details
Title: New Caledonia.
Author: David Chappell
Publication: The Contemporary Pacific (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2002
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Volume: 14 Issue: 2 Page: 446(11)Distributed by Thompson Gale

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As France continued to delegate administrative and fiscal responsibilities to the territory in compliance with the 1998 Noumea Accord, the March 2001 municipal elections, challenges in forming the executive council of the Congress, and senatorial elections in September all revealed growing complexity in local politics as well as disarray in the pro-independence coalition. John Connell (1988, 231) once argued that the confrontation between a pro-independence indigenous front and an entrenched colonial system bolstered by resident loyalists gave New Caledonia more nationalist cohesion than other linguistically diverse Melanesian countries, which have been wracked by secession movements, civil wars, and military coups. The inverse of his idea may also be coming true, that is, in an officially postcolonial era, New Caledonia's...


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