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Could we please post this to the Pac Inst list?</div>
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many thanks, Chris</div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Pacific and Asian History Seminar</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">1-3pm, Friday 26 July 2019, Tardis Room (E2.02), Baldessin Precinct Building (110)</span></p>
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<span lang="IT" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Marta Gentilucci
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<span lang="IT" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PhD student, Department of
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Since the 1980s, Kanak people of New Caledonia have been engaged in a process of decolonisation that seeks to break with the centre-periphery models of France/New-Caledonia or
South Province / North Province, and have come to focus instead on their mutual “</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">interdependencies</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(Tjibaou,
</span><i><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#222222">La pres</span></i><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#222222">énce kanak</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#222222">,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
1996). The Société mini</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">è</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">re du Sud Pacifique (SMSP), a local mining company whose major shareholder
is the Northern Province, under the control of Kanak separatist parties, now owns 51% of an on-shore nickel project in New Caledonia and two more off-shore projects in South Korea and China. As in Papua New Guinea, mineral exports account for much of the value
of New Caledonia</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">s total export; but unlike PNG, relatively few people live in poverty in New
Caledonia, which has the second highest GDP of all France</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">s overseas regions. Building on ten
months of fieldwork in the northern region of New Caledonia, I discuss recent Kanak engagement in the metallurgy-nickel sector, through the lens of the Koniambo project. Drawing on the work of Boltanski and Chiapello (<i>The New Spirit of Capitalism</i>, 2017),
I want to consider how mining is imbued with the spirit of cultural production. In particular, this paper seeks: (1) to explore the resource-making and resource-management processes at Koniambo; 2) to deconstruct the idea that economic dynamism is necessarily
opposed to the sacred; 3) to critically analyse the role of mining in political arrangements for New Caledonia</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">s
future; and 4) to propose mining and mines as productive cultural and social sites. Looking beyond a post-colonial emphasis on exploitation, I</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">m
interested in how indigenous people articulate the desire to be present and acknowledged within the global system.
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