Nickel Mining and Local Governance in New Caledonia

Geographies of New Caledonia-Kanaky: Environments, Politics and Cultures

2024-04-12

This open access book provides a unique overview of geographical, historical, political and environmental issues facing the French..

Land Reform, Conflict and Local Development on “Grande Terre”

Simon Batterbury, Matthias Kowasch, Aurélie Arroyas

2024-04-01

New Caledonia-Kanaky has operated customary and European models of land tenure in parallel for almost 170 years, since the early d..

The third independence referendum in New Caledonia – a fallback to colonialism?

Matthias KOWASCH, Simon Batterbury, Séverine Bouard, Eddy Wayuone Wadrawane

2022-02-23

The third and final referendum in the French overseas territory New Caledonia on December 12, 2021, was wasted. Although the vote ..

Indigenous responses to colonialism in an island state: a geopolitical ecology of Kanaky-New Caledonia

Simon Batterbury, Séverine Bouard, Matthias KOWASCH

2020-01-01

In this chapter we relate New Caledonia's geopolitical history to key themes in political ecology. This small island territory exe..

The geopolitical ecology of New Caledonia: territorial re-ordering, mining, and Indigenous economic development

Simon PJ Batterbury, Matthias Kowasch, Severine Bouard

2020-01-01

In the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, conflict and difference between Indigenous Kanak people and European settlers ha..

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

M Kowasch, S BATTERBURY, M Neumann

2016-01-01

Property relations are often ambiguous in postcolonial settings. Property is only considered as such if socially legitimate instit..

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

M Kowasch, S BATTERBURY, M Neumann

2015-01-01

Property relations are often ambiguous in postcolonial settings. Property is only considered as such if socially legitimate instit..