“In New Caledonia, where the Kanak presence is essential, bonds of coexistence emerge” | EUROtoday

Anthropologist at CNRS, Benoît Trépied works on the colonial challenge within the Pacific. In Decolonize the kanaky-new-calédonie (Anacharsis, 288 pages, 20 euros), he measures the advances carried out within the course of an emancipation of the territory because the political agreements of Matignon in 1988 and Noumea in 1998. But additionally, and above all, the trail remaining to go for many who wish to go to the top.

On May 13, 2024, the independence mobilization led to violence that put the territory on his knees. The occasion, in response to the researcher, “Represents an uprising against the established order of the Matignon-Nouméa sequence”which was a interval “Ambivalent”as a result of product of financial, social and political progress as a lot as postcolonial immobility.

How do you outline what occurred on May 13, 2024?

The historic perspective is lacking to outline it, we’re nonetheless taken within the occasion. Some have seen abuses, riots; others a revolt, an rebel. What occurred just isn’t consensus. I believe we no less than attended a political and social rebellion.

The political facet pertains to the mobilization of separatists in opposition to the reform of the electoral physique, a topic which impacts what the vote represents as a primary instrument for decolonization. This is how he was considered within the 1998 Noumea Agreement [qui a restreint le corps électoral] To counterbalance the results of colonization of settlement and the marginalization of kanak.

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