Islands of Islands: Responses to the Centre-Periphery Fractal Model in East Futuna (Wallis and Futuna) and the Belep Islands (New Caledonia)

Starting from two case studies, the Belep Islands (New Caledonia) and Futuna (Wallis and Futuna), this essay presents the hypothesis that colonial and post-colonial dynamics tend to reproduce, as in fractals, the centre-periphery model. In the ‘Francophone Pacific’ inter-island relationships have hi...

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Main Authors: Adriano Favole, Lara Giordana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Island Studies Journal 2018-05-01
Series:Island Studies Journal
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.24043/isj.42