THE GEOPOLITICAL ECOLOGY OF NEW CALEDONIA: TERRITORIAL RE-ORDERING, MINING, AND INDIGENOUS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

In the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, conflict and difference between Indigenous Kanak people and European ColorLogic Parts settlers has existed at least since the 1850s.We interrogate the geopolitical ecology of these islands, which is deeply wedded to natural resource extraction, is instrumentalized in political debate, power struggle

Andreea Teodorescu,1 Petru Ifteni,1 Ana Dragan,2 Marius Alexandru Moga,1 Ana Aliana Miron,1 Lorena Dima1 1Transilvania University of Brasov, Faculty of Medicine, Brasov, Romania; 2Clinical Hospital of Psychiatry and Neurology of Brasov, 3rd Department of Clinical Psychiatry, Brasov, RomaniaCorrespondence: Petru IfteniTransilvania University of Bras