Matthew Maclellan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1416570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Maclellan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Maclellan |
| SIGNATURE | MACLELLAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Federation of Science Journalists |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5903-9944 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction
For many decades, historians, researchers, and participants have documented the history of the nuclear era in the Pacific Islands. They have highlighted the legacy of health and environmental impacts of 50 years of nuclear testing by the United States, the United Kingdom, and France between 1946 and 1996. Most official histories of Pacific nuclear testing present extensive technical detail of the development of nuclear weapons, evidence of inter-…
Manuscript Xliii
Anti-nuclear protests in the Pacific Islands began in the 1950s. There were a series of petitions throughout the decade as Islanders living under colonial administration sought assistance from the United Nations Trusteeship Council, the newly created Non-Aligned Movement, and international ecumenical networks such as the World Council of Churches. At the height of the 1950s Cold War between the United States and USSR, these calls were mostly brus…
Identity politics, liberalism, and the democratizing power of biopolitics
Foucault against Neoliberalism?
In the late 1970s, Michel Foucault dedicated a number of controversial lectures on the subject of neoliberalism. Had Foucault been seduced by neoliberalism? Did France’s premier leftist intellectual, near the end of his career, turn to the right? In this book, Geoffroy de Lagasnerie argues that far from abandoning the left, Foucault’s analysis of neoliberalism was a means of probing the limits and lacunae of traditional political philosophy, soci…
We Lost on the Numbers, But for Us It's a Victory’
On 4 November 2018, more than 141,000 voters in New Caledonia went to the polls to determine the political status of the French Pacific dependency. A referendum on self-determination, the culmination of a 20-year transition under the 1998 Noumea Accord, posed the question: ‘Do you want New Caledonia to accede to full sovereignty and become independent?’In an unprecedented turnout, 56.67 per cent of voters decided to remain within the French Repub…
Indigenous Infopolitics
This article argues for a reading of biopolitics as a mechanism of political empowerment under conditions in which the state perpetuates exclusion by paradoxically affirming the political equality of marginalized individuals or groups. After differentiating Michel Foucault's conceptualization of biopolitics from its conventional interpretation in Giorgio Agamben, I show how the Canadian state counterintuitively perpetuates Indigenous exclusion th…
France and the Blue Pacific
Under the concept of the ‘Blue Pacific’, island nations are placing increased priority on the oceans, seeking to integrate policy on climate change, maritime security, fisheries and ocean biodiversity. This agenda however affects France, one of the remaining colonial powers in the Pacific, which controls a vast maritime domain in the region. The 2016 decision to incorporate the French dependencies New Caledonia and French Polynesia as full member…
Pacific Power? Australia’s Strategy in the Pacific Islands
Joanne Wallis' book Pacific Power? is an important, interesting but ultimately flawed book. Structured in three parts, Pacific Power? briefly sketches Australia's strategic interests in the Pacific
Grappling with the Bomb
Grappling with the Bomb is a history of Britain's 1950s program to test the hydrogen bomb, code name Operation Grapple. In 1957-58, nine atmospheric nuclear tests were held at Malden Island and Christmas Island-today, part of the Pacific nation of Kiribati. Nearly 14,000 troops travelled to the central Pacific for the UK nuclear testing program-many are still living with the
The Tragedy of Limitless Growth
This article argues that Garrett Hardin's primary object of critique in his influential "The Tragedy of the Commons" is not the commons or shared property at all-as is almost universally assumed by Hardin's critics-but is rather Adam Smith's theory of markets and its viability for protecting scarce resources. On the basis of this revised understanding this article then offers a different interpretation of Hardin's thesis by assigning hermeneutic …
The 2014 Elections in New Caledonia
On 11 May 2014, voters in New Caledonia went to the polls to elect representatives to three provincial assemblies and the national congress. The election results reaffirmed the division between supporters and opponents of independence, as New Caledonians move towards a self-determination referendum scheduled before the end of 2018. The election results confirmed longstanding regional and political divisions. In the rural north and outlying Loyalt…
France in the South Pacific
Marx's Vampires
Within the scholarly literature there is a general consensus that the significance of Marx's vampire metaphor is limited to accentuating the excessive and predatory nature of capitalist accumulation. Against the predominant view, this essay argues that the standard reading of Marx's vampire metaphor implicitly endows the category of "living labor" or the "worker" with a transcendent rather than immanent ontology. Drawing predominantly from Louis …
La France Dans Le Pacifique Sud
Pacific Seasonal Workers for Australian Horticulture
Seasonal labor shortages hinder the expansion of Australia's multi-billion dollar horticultural industry because primary producers find it difficult to secure sufficient workers at peak times such as harvests. In the labor surplus economies of Pacific Island nations un(der)employment and a lack of income inhibit social and economic development, restrict educational opportunities and contribute to social unrest. This article investigates the poten…
Fiji, Iraq and Pacific island security
The reverberations from the war in Iraq have been felt worldwide- and in regions far distant from the Middle East. A whole industry has grown up, in which private military and security corporations plug the gaps that the armed forces of the US and Britain cannot fill, providing back-up services, security and logistics. The Pacific nation of Fiji, with its highly regarded military tradition, has proved a fertile recruiting ground for such companie…
From Eloi to Europe
After violent clashes during the 1980s in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, a series of constitutional and electoral reforms changed the political landscape, with the independence movement Front de Libération Nationale Kanak et Socialiste (FLNKS) entering the institutions of government, and Kanak independence leaders serving in a multi-party executive alongside their conservative opponents. The 1998 Noumea Accord between the French g…
The Noumea accord and Decolonisation in New Caledonia
(1999). The Noumea accord and Decolonisation in New Caledonia. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 245-252
Grappling with the Bomb
Grappling with the Bomb is a history of Britain's 1950s program to test the hydrogen bomb, code name Operation Grapple. In 1957-58, nine atmospheric nuclear tests were held at Malden Island and Christmas Island-today, part of the Pacific nation of Kiribati. Nearly 14,000 troops travelled to the central Pacific for the UK nuclear testing program-many are still living with the
The Tragedy of Limitless Growth
This article argues that Garrett Hardin's primary object of critique in his influential "The Tragedy of the Commons" is not the commons or shared property at all-as is almost universally assumed by Hardin's critics-but is rather Adam Smith's theory of markets and its viability for protecting scarce resources. On the basis of this revised understanding this article then offers a different interpretation of Hardin's thesis by assigning hermeneutic …
From Eloi to Europe
After violent clashes during the 1980s in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, a series of constitutional and electoral reforms changed the political landscape, with the independence movement Front de Libération Nationale Kanak et Socialiste (FLNKS) entering the institutions of government, and Kanak independence leaders serving in a multi-party executive alongside their conservative opponents. The 1998 Noumea Accord between the French g…
The 2014 Elections in New Caledonia
On 11 May 2014, voters in New Caledonia went to the polls to elect representatives to three provincial assemblies and the national congress. The election results reaffirmed the division between supporters and opponents of independence, as New Caledonians move towards a self-determination referendum scheduled before the end of 2018. The election results confirmed longstanding regional and political divisions. In the rural north and outlying Loyalt…
Marx's Vampires
Within the scholarly literature there is a general consensus that the significance of Marx's vampire metaphor is limited to accentuating the excessive and predatory nature of capitalist accumulation. Against the predominant view, this essay argues that the standard reading of Marx's vampire metaphor implicitly endows the category of "living labor" or the "worker" with a transcendent rather than immanent ontology. Drawing predominantly from Louis …
Fiji, Iraq and Pacific island security
The reverberations from the war in Iraq have been felt worldwide- and in regions far distant from the Middle East. A whole industry has grown up, in which private military and security corporations plug the gaps that the armed forces of the US and Britain cannot fill, providing back-up services, security and logistics. The Pacific nation of Fiji, with its highly regarded military tradition, has proved a fertile recruiting ground for such companie…
The Noumea accord and Decolonisation in New Caledonia
(1999). The Noumea accord and Decolonisation in New Caledonia. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 245-252
Identity politics, liberalism, and the democratizing power of biopolitics
We Lost on the Numbers, But for Us It's a Victory’
On 4 November 2018, more than 141,000 voters in New Caledonia went to the polls to determine the political status of the French Pacific dependency. A referendum on self-determination, the culmination of a 20-year transition under the 1998 Noumea Accord, posed the question: ‘Do you want New Caledonia to accede to full sovereignty and become independent?’In an unprecedented turnout, 56.67 per cent of voters decided to remain within the French Repub…
France and the Blue Pacific
Under the concept of the ‘Blue Pacific’, island nations are placing increased priority on the oceans, seeking to integrate policy on climate change, maritime security, fisheries and ocean biodiversity. This agenda however affects France, one of the remaining colonial powers in the Pacific, which controls a vast maritime domain in the region. The 2016 decision to incorporate the French dependencies New Caledonia and French Polynesia as full member…
Pacific Seasonal Workers for Australian Horticulture
Seasonal labor shortages hinder the expansion of Australia's multi-billion dollar horticultural industry because primary producers find it difficult to secure sufficient workers at peak times such as harvests. In the labor surplus economies of Pacific Island nations un(der)employment and a lack of income inhibit social and economic development, restrict educational opportunities and contribute to social unrest. This article investigates the poten…
The Noumea accord and Decolonisation in New Caledonia
(1999). The Noumea accord and Decolonisation in New Caledonia. The Journal of Pacific History: Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 245-252
From Eloi to Europe
After violent clashes during the 1980s in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, a series of constitutional and electoral reforms changed the political landscape, with the independence movement Front de Libération Nationale Kanak et Socialiste (FLNKS) entering the institutions of government, and Kanak independence leaders serving in a multi-party executive alongside their conservative opponents. The 1998 Noumea Accord between the French g…
Pacific Seasonal Workers for Australian Horticulture
Seasonal labor shortages hinder the expansion of Australia's multi-billion dollar horticultural industry because primary producers find it difficult to secure sufficient workers at peak times such as harvests. In the labor surplus economies of Pacific Island nations un(der)employment and a lack of income inhibit social and economic development, restrict educational opportunities and contribute to social unrest. This article investigates the poten…
Fiji, Iraq and Pacific island security
The reverberations from the war in Iraq have been felt worldwide- and in regions far distant from the Middle East. A whole industry has grown up, in which private military and security corporations plug the gaps that the armed forces of the US and Britain cannot fill, providing back-up services, security and logistics. The Pacific nation of Fiji, with its highly regarded military tradition, has proved a fertile recruiting ground for such companie…
La France Dans Le Pacifique Sud
Marx's Vampires
Within the scholarly literature there is a general consensus that the significance of Marx's vampire metaphor is limited to accentuating the excessive and predatory nature of capitalist accumulation. Against the predominant view, this essay argues that the standard reading of Marx's vampire metaphor implicitly endows the category of "living labor" or the "worker" with a transcendent rather than immanent ontology. Drawing predominantly from Louis …
France in the South Pacific
The 2014 Elections in New Caledonia
On 11 May 2014, voters in New Caledonia went to the polls to elect representatives to three provincial assemblies and the national congress. The election results reaffirmed the division between supporters and opponents of independence, as New Caledonians move towards a self-determination referendum scheduled before the end of 2018. The election results confirmed longstanding regional and political divisions. In the rural north and outlying Loyalt…
The Tragedy of Limitless Growth
This article argues that Garrett Hardin's primary object of critique in his influential "The Tragedy of the Commons" is not the commons or shared property at all-as is almost universally assumed by Hardin's critics-but is rather Adam Smith's theory of markets and its viability for protecting scarce resources. On the basis of this revised understanding this article then offers a different interpretation of Hardin's thesis by assigning hermeneutic …
Grappling with the Bomb
Grappling with the Bomb is a history of Britain's 1950s program to test the hydrogen bomb, code name Operation Grapple. In 1957-58, nine atmospheric nuclear tests were held at Malden Island and Christmas Island-today, part of the Pacific nation of Kiribati. Nearly 14,000 troops travelled to the central Pacific for the UK nuclear testing program-many are still living with the
Indigenous Infopolitics
This article argues for a reading of biopolitics as a mechanism of political empowerment under conditions in which the state perpetuates exclusion by paradoxically affirming the political equality of marginalized individuals or groups. After differentiating Michel Foucault's conceptualization of biopolitics from its conventional interpretation in Giorgio Agamben, I show how the Canadian state counterintuitively perpetuates Indigenous exclusion th…
France and the Blue Pacific
Under the concept of the ‘Blue Pacific’, island nations are placing increased priority on the oceans, seeking to integrate policy on climate change, maritime security, fisheries and ocean biodiversity. This agenda however affects France, one of the remaining colonial powers in the Pacific, which controls a vast maritime domain in the region. The 2016 decision to incorporate the French dependencies New Caledonia and French Polynesia as full member…
Pacific Power? Australia’s Strategy in the Pacific Islands
Joanne Wallis' book Pacific Power? is an important, interesting but ultimately flawed book. Structured in three parts, Pacific Power? briefly sketches Australia's strategic interests in the Pacific
We Lost on the Numbers, But for Us It's a Victory’
On 4 November 2018, more than 141,000 voters in New Caledonia went to the polls to determine the political status of the French Pacific dependency. A referendum on self-determination, the culmination of a 20-year transition under the 1998 Noumea Accord, posed the question: ‘Do you want New Caledonia to accede to full sovereignty and become independent?’In an unprecedented turnout, 56.67 per cent of voters decided to remain within the French Repub…
Foucault against Neoliberalism?
In the late 1970s, Michel Foucault dedicated a number of controversial lectures on the subject of neoliberalism. Had Foucault been seduced by neoliberalism? Did France’s premier leftist intellectual, near the end of his career, turn to the right? In this book, Geoffroy de Lagasnerie argues that far from abandoning the left, Foucault’s analysis of neoliberalism was a means of probing the limits and lacunae of traditional political philosophy, soci…
Identity politics, liberalism, and the democratizing power of biopolitics
Introduction
For many decades, historians, researchers, and participants have documented the history of the nuclear era in the Pacific Islands. They have highlighted the legacy of health and environmental impacts of 50 years of nuclear testing by the United States, the United Kingdom, and France between 1946 and 1996. Most official histories of Pacific nuclear testing present extensive technical detail of the development of nuclear weapons, evidence of inter-…
Manuscript Xliii
Anti-nuclear protests in the Pacific Islands began in the 1950s. There were a series of petitions throughout the decade as Islanders living under colonial administration sought assistance from the United Nations Trusteeship Council, the newly created Non-Aligned Movement, and international ecumenical networks such as the World Council of Churches. At the height of the 1950s Cold War between the United States and USSR, these calls were mostly brus…
Political science (12 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · History (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Ethnology (5 works) · Genealogy (4 works)