Adrian Muckle
Biographic Data
| ID | 3638487 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adrian Muckle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adrian |
| FAMILY NAME | Muckle |
| SIGNATURE | MUCKLE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1866-2331 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Under the Colonial Radar: The History and Memory of an “Invisible” Mixed-Race Household in New Caledonia
An expanding scholarship on interracial intimacy in colonial contexts has generally focused on cases of administrative disputes or judicial conflicts that brought “mixed couples,” “mixed-race families,” or “ métis ” to the attention of colonial authorities. But what of the lives and experiences of those who did not contest their legal status, remaining under the administrative radar and thus virtually invisible in the archives of the colonial sta…
Words, Values, and Actions: Reading the Lives of Chiefs, Pastors, and Leaders in Kanaky New Caledonia
Marie Durand, Monika Stern et Éric Wittersheim (dir.), Le Vanuatu dans tous ses états. Histoire et anthropologie, Paris, Les Presses de l’Inalco, 2024, 508 p
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Manuscript Xliv: Inaugural Lecture: History, Lies and Mythology – the Historian and the Community
Alan Ward (1935–2014) delivered his inaugural professorial address at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, on 23 March 1988. Following his 1987 promotion to Professor, a position he held until his retirement in 1996, the lecture marked a milestone in his career, which to that point had included not only his influential study, A Show of Justice: Racial ‘Amalgamation’ in Nineteenth Century New Zealand (1974), but also important work on lan…
Sous le radar colonial: Histoire et mémoire d’un foyer multiracial « invisible » en Nouvelle-Calédonie
Les recherches sur les intimités interraciales en contexte colonial s'intéressent généralement à des cas de litiges administratifs ou de conflits judiciaires qui ont attiré l'attention des autorités coloniales vis-à-vis de certains ' couples mixtes ', ' familles multiraciales ' et autres individus ' métis '. Mais qu'en est-il de la vie et de l'expérience de celles et ceux qui n'ont pas contesté leur statut légal et sont restés sous le ' radar adm…
The Indigénat and France’s Empire in New Caledonia: Origins, Practices and Legacies
Putting “Natives” To Work: The Indigénat and the Colonial Labor System Between the Wars
Jean M‘Baraï the Trepang Fisherman
Georges Baudoux (1870‒1949) is one of the better-known colonial-era writers of the francophone Pacific, akin ‒ as his earlier biographer Patrick O’Reilly observed and as his translator Karin Speedy
Specters of Violence in a Colonial Context: New Caledonia, 1917
During 1917–1918, war ravaged the hill country north of New Caledonia's main island, the Grande terre. Occurring sixty-four years after France's 1853 annexation of New Caledonia and in the midst of the Great War of 1914–1918, the conflict was known by the mid-twentieth century as "the last of the kanak revolts." It represented to many—until the "events" of the 1980s—the final pacification of Kanak (the indigenous people of New Caledonia). Specter…
Pour la mort d’un chef kanak. Le destin de Mohamed ben Ahmed ou les enjeux d’une histoire coloniale des subalternes . La Nouvelle-Calédonie au tournant du XX e siècle
International audience
"Thoughtlessly Savage Words" and Deeds: The contested legitimacy of colonial violence, New Caledonia, 1917
In 1917, while in the midst of mobilization for the Great War, French authorities in New Caledonia sought to mobilize the French army, local settlers and Indigenous Kanak allies in the repression of a local "revolt." This article critically examines the archive of one of the punitive expeditions that followed during New Caledonia's "1917" war. By identifying and tracing the agreements and disagreements that emerged over the use of violence before…
Decolonisation and the Pacific
Since the foundation of The Journal of Pacific History in 1966, the study of decolonisation in the Pacific has never been far from the historical limelight, but the critical approaches, perspective
Pacific Histories: Ocean, land, people
Introducing the review forum on Nicholas Thomas's Islanders: the Pacific in the age of empire in 2012, Doug Munro observed a turn from scarcity to abundance in general histories of the Pacific.11 D
Conjurer la guerre: Violence et pouvoir à Houaïlou (Nouvelle-Calédonie)
A word to the wise to begin with: the literal translation of this book's title – Conjuring War: violence and power at Houailou (New Caledonia) – does not do full justice to the polysemy of the orig
Les transformations de la « question métisse » en Nouvelle-Calédonie (1853-2009)
À la lumière de l'instauration en 2009 de catégories de recensement inédites permettant une identification officielle des « métis », cet article analyse les façons dont le métissage a été problématisé et représenté en Nouvelle-Calédonie depuis les débuts de la colonisation. L'examen des principales évolutions de la « question métisse » dans le débat public permet ici de montrer qu'en dépit de leur assimilation juridique aux catégories coloniales …
The Presumption of Indigeneity: Colonial Administration, the ‘Community of Race’ and the Category of Indigène in New Caledonia, 1887–1946
From 1887 to 1946, the administrative apparatus known as the indigénat provided French administrators in New Caledonia with a set of exceptional measures to streamline the governing and summary repression of persons defined as indigènes ('natives'). This paper examines the place of the indigénat, the role of colonial administrators in defining one or more communities of race and the variable status of the category of indigène in New Caledonia in …
Natives’, ‘Immigrants’ and ‘libérés’: The Colonial Regulation of Mobility in New Caledonia
With reference to the theme of mobility, this paper explores the separate but often overlapping regimes designed to police or control ‘natives’, libérés (freed convicts and ‘immigrant’ (indentured) labourers in New Caledonia during the colonial era. In so doing, it also seeks to sketch the forms of mobility and circulation that were sanctioned and regulated by colonial authorities
In the Long ‘Run’: Kanak Stockmen, the Cattle Frontier and Colonial Power Relations in New Caledonia, 1870–1988
For more than a century, from the 1870s to the 1980s, stockmen were important intermediaries and figures of power and influence in the construction, maintenance and renewal of the colonial order in New Caledonia. Social relations between Kanak and settlers working in the cattle ‘runs’ permitted a unique form of mobility spanning the frontier. The relations developed between chiefs and cattle farmers are central to the processes by which certain a…
Troublesome Chiefs and Disorderly Subjects: The Indigénat and the internment of Kanak in New Caledonia (1887–1928)
L’internement politique a joué un rôle important dans le processus par lequel l’administration coloniale française a essayé d’amener les Kanak, le peuple indigène de Nouvelle-Calédonie, sous domination française. Dans le cadre d’une étude examinant la fonction et l’héritage de l’indigénat dans la régularisation des relations entre Kanak et colons, cet article développe une étude de cas de l’internement des Kanak jusqu’en 1928. Contrairement à pen…
No More Violence nor War’: 20 Years of Nation-Building in New Caledonia
Kanak Experiences of WWI: New Caledonia's Tirailleurs , Auxiliaries and ‘Rebels’
Kanak, the indigenous Melanesians of New Caledonia, experienced the First World War as tirailleurs , auxiliaries and ‘rebels’. As volunteer tirailleurs , in 1916–18, Kanak fought and died in France and New Caledonia in the service of the French colonial administration. As ‘rebels’ many Kanak also died fighting against the French army and its Kanak auxiliaries in the north of New Caledonia in 1917–18 (the ‘1917’ revolt). Until the end of the twent…
Tropes of (mis)understanding: Imagining shared destinies in New Caledonia, 1853-1998
Cet article amorce une réflexion critique sur le préambule de l’accord de Nouméa en lisant ce dernier texte par rapport à une histoire plus longue de tentatives officielles et non-officielles pour imaginer ou définir les rapports entre les Kanaks, les colons et l’État français. Nous examinerons comment les destins des divers groupes ethniques ont été envisagés après les périodes de conflit et nous remarquerons l’accent mis sur les tropes de la mé…
The ‘Chief without Power’: Téâ Antoine Katélia and the War of 1917–18 in New Caledonia
In accounts of the Kanak (Melanesian) opposition to the recruitment of volunteers for the Great War in 1916–17 and of the war that followed in the north of New Caledonia in 1917–18, the involvement of a district grand chef, Téâ Antoine Katélia, was the subject of conflicting testimonies. Drawing extensively upon archival materials dating from before, during and after the war, this paper examines the contested authority of a Kanak chief in the ear…
Killing the ' Fantôme Canaque: Evoking and Invoking the Possibility of Revolt in New Caledonia (1853-1915)
Evocations and invocations of the possibility of revolt or violence on the part of Kanak were an ever present feature of European settler discourse in 19th and early 20th century New Caledonia. Within this discourse, there was a constant tension between the possibility of (or potential for) violence invoked by settlers, and the attempts of colonial administrators to deny this possibility. For the local administration, denial of the possibility of…
The Presumption of Indigeneity: Colonial Administration, the ‘Community of Race’ and the Category of Indigène in New Caledonia, 1887–1946
From 1887 to 1946, the administrative apparatus known as the indigénat provided French administrators in New Caledonia with a set of exceptional measures to streamline the governing and summary repression of persons defined as indigènes ('natives'). This paper examines the place of the indigénat, the role of colonial administrators in defining one or more communities of race and the variable status of the category of indigène in New Caledonia in …
Killing the ' Fantôme Canaque: Evoking and Invoking the Possibility of Revolt in New Caledonia (1853-1915)
Evocations and invocations of the possibility of revolt or violence on the part of Kanak were an ever present feature of European settler discourse in 19th and early 20th century New Caledonia. Within this discourse, there was a constant tension between the possibility of (or potential for) violence invoked by settlers, and the attempts of colonial administrators to deny this possibility. For the local administration, denial of the possibility of…
Les transformations de la « question métisse » en Nouvelle-Calédonie (1853-2009)
À la lumière de l'instauration en 2009 de catégories de recensement inédites permettant une identification officielle des « métis », cet article analyse les façons dont le métissage a été problématisé et représenté en Nouvelle-Calédonie depuis les débuts de la colonisation. L'examen des principales évolutions de la « question métisse » dans le débat public permet ici de montrer qu'en dépit de leur assimilation juridique aux catégories coloniales …
The ‘Chief without Power’: Téâ Antoine Katélia and the War of 1917–18 in New Caledonia
In accounts of the Kanak (Melanesian) opposition to the recruitment of volunteers for the Great War in 1916–17 and of the war that followed in the north of New Caledonia in 1917–18, the involvement of a district grand chef, Téâ Antoine Katélia, was the subject of conflicting testimonies. Drawing extensively upon archival materials dating from before, during and after the war, this paper examines the contested authority of a Kanak chief in the ear…
Pour la mort d’un chef kanak. Le destin de Mohamed ben Ahmed ou les enjeux d’une histoire coloniale des subalternes . La Nouvelle-Calédonie au tournant du XX e siècle
International audience
Kanak Experiences of WWI: New Caledonia's Tirailleurs , Auxiliaries and ‘Rebels’
Kanak, the indigenous Melanesians of New Caledonia, experienced the First World War as tirailleurs , auxiliaries and ‘rebels’. As volunteer tirailleurs , in 1916–18, Kanak fought and died in France and New Caledonia in the service of the French colonial administration. As ‘rebels’ many Kanak also died fighting against the French army and its Kanak auxiliaries in the north of New Caledonia in 1917–18 (the ‘1917’ revolt). Until the end of the twent…
Tropes of (mis)understanding: Imagining shared destinies in New Caledonia, 1853-1998
Cet article amorce une réflexion critique sur le préambule de l’accord de Nouméa en lisant ce dernier texte par rapport à une histoire plus longue de tentatives officielles et non-officielles pour imaginer ou définir les rapports entre les Kanaks, les colons et l’État français. Nous examinerons comment les destins des divers groupes ethniques ont été envisagés après les périodes de conflit et nous remarquerons l’accent mis sur les tropes de la mé…
Killing the ' Fantôme Canaque: Evoking and Invoking the Possibility of Revolt in New Caledonia (1853-1915)
Evocations and invocations of the possibility of revolt or violence on the part of Kanak were an ever present feature of European settler discourse in 19th and early 20th century New Caledonia. Within this discourse, there was a constant tension between the possibility of (or potential for) violence invoked by settlers, and the attempts of colonial administrators to deny this possibility. For the local administration, denial of the possibility of…
The ‘Chief without Power’: Téâ Antoine Katélia and the War of 1917–18 in New Caledonia
In accounts of the Kanak (Melanesian) opposition to the recruitment of volunteers for the Great War in 1916–17 and of the war that followed in the north of New Caledonia in 1917–18, the involvement of a district grand chef, Téâ Antoine Katélia, was the subject of conflicting testimonies. Drawing extensively upon archival materials dating from before, during and after the war, this paper examines the contested authority of a Kanak chief in the ear…
Tropes of (mis)understanding: Imagining shared destinies in New Caledonia, 1853-1998
Cet article amorce une réflexion critique sur le préambule de l’accord de Nouméa en lisant ce dernier texte par rapport à une histoire plus longue de tentatives officielles et non-officielles pour imaginer ou définir les rapports entre les Kanaks, les colons et l’État français. Nous examinerons comment les destins des divers groupes ethniques ont été envisagés après les périodes de conflit et nous remarquerons l’accent mis sur les tropes de la mé…
Kanak Experiences of WWI: New Caledonia's Tirailleurs , Auxiliaries and ‘Rebels’
Kanak, the indigenous Melanesians of New Caledonia, experienced the First World War as tirailleurs , auxiliaries and ‘rebels’. As volunteer tirailleurs , in 1916–18, Kanak fought and died in France and New Caledonia in the service of the French colonial administration. As ‘rebels’ many Kanak also died fighting against the French army and its Kanak auxiliaries in the north of New Caledonia in 1917–18 (the ‘1917’ revolt). Until the end of the twent…
No More Violence nor War’: 20 Years of Nation-Building in New Caledonia
In the Long ‘Run’: Kanak Stockmen, the Cattle Frontier and Colonial Power Relations in New Caledonia, 1870–1988
For more than a century, from the 1870s to the 1980s, stockmen were important intermediaries and figures of power and influence in the construction, maintenance and renewal of the colonial order in New Caledonia. Social relations between Kanak and settlers working in the cattle ‘runs’ permitted a unique form of mobility spanning the frontier. The relations developed between chiefs and cattle farmers are central to the processes by which certain a…
Troublesome Chiefs and Disorderly Subjects: The Indigénat and the internment of Kanak in New Caledonia (1887–1928)
L’internement politique a joué un rôle important dans le processus par lequel l’administration coloniale française a essayé d’amener les Kanak, le peuple indigène de Nouvelle-Calédonie, sous domination française. Dans le cadre d’une étude examinant la fonction et l’héritage de l’indigénat dans la régularisation des relations entre Kanak et colons, cet article développe une étude de cas de l’internement des Kanak jusqu’en 1928. Contrairement à pen…
Natives’, ‘Immigrants’ and ‘libérés’: The Colonial Regulation of Mobility in New Caledonia
With reference to the theme of mobility, this paper explores the separate but often overlapping regimes designed to police or control ‘natives’, libérés (freed convicts and ‘immigrant’ (indentured) labourers in New Caledonia during the colonial era. In so doing, it also seeks to sketch the forms of mobility and circulation that were sanctioned and regulated by colonial authorities
The Presumption of Indigeneity: Colonial Administration, the ‘Community of Race’ and the Category of Indigène in New Caledonia, 1887–1946
From 1887 to 1946, the administrative apparatus known as the indigénat provided French administrators in New Caledonia with a set of exceptional measures to streamline the governing and summary repression of persons defined as indigènes ('natives'). This paper examines the place of the indigénat, the role of colonial administrators in defining one or more communities of race and the variable status of the category of indigène in New Caledonia in …
Conjurer la guerre: Violence et pouvoir à Houaïlou (Nouvelle-Calédonie)
A word to the wise to begin with: the literal translation of this book's title – Conjuring War: violence and power at Houailou (New Caledonia) – does not do full justice to the polysemy of the orig
Les transformations de la « question métisse » en Nouvelle-Calédonie (1853-2009)
À la lumière de l'instauration en 2009 de catégories de recensement inédites permettant une identification officielle des « métis », cet article analyse les façons dont le métissage a été problématisé et représenté en Nouvelle-Calédonie depuis les débuts de la colonisation. L'examen des principales évolutions de la « question métisse » dans le débat public permet ici de montrer qu'en dépit de leur assimilation juridique aux catégories coloniales …
Pacific Histories: Ocean, land, people
Introducing the review forum on Nicholas Thomas's Islanders: the Pacific in the age of empire in 2012, Doug Munro observed a turn from scarcity to abundance in general histories of the Pacific.11 D
Decolonisation and the Pacific
Since the foundation of The Journal of Pacific History in 1966, the study of decolonisation in the Pacific has never been far from the historical limelight, but the critical approaches, perspective
Specters of Violence in a Colonial Context: New Caledonia, 1917
During 1917–1918, war ravaged the hill country north of New Caledonia's main island, the Grande terre. Occurring sixty-four years after France's 1853 annexation of New Caledonia and in the midst of the Great War of 1914–1918, the conflict was known by the mid-twentieth century as "the last of the kanak revolts." It represented to many—until the "events" of the 1980s—the final pacification of Kanak (the indigenous people of New Caledonia). Specter…
Pour la mort d’un chef kanak. Le destin de Mohamed ben Ahmed ou les enjeux d’une histoire coloniale des subalternes . La Nouvelle-Calédonie au tournant du XX e siècle
International audience
"Thoughtlessly Savage Words" and Deeds: The contested legitimacy of colonial violence, New Caledonia, 1917
In 1917, while in the midst of mobilization for the Great War, French authorities in New Caledonia sought to mobilize the French army, local settlers and Indigenous Kanak allies in the repression of a local "revolt." This article critically examines the archive of one of the punitive expeditions that followed during New Caledonia's "1917" war. By identifying and tracing the agreements and disagreements that emerged over the use of violence before…
Jean M‘Baraï the Trepang Fisherman
Georges Baudoux (1870‒1949) is one of the better-known colonial-era writers of the francophone Pacific, akin ‒ as his earlier biographer Patrick O’Reilly observed and as his translator Karin Speedy
The Indigénat and France’s Empire in New Caledonia: Origins, Practices and Legacies
Putting “Natives” To Work: The Indigénat and the Colonial Labor System Between the Wars
Marie Durand, Monika Stern et Éric Wittersheim (dir.), Le Vanuatu dans tous ses états. Histoire et anthropologie, Paris, Les Presses de l’Inalco, 2024, 508 p
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Manuscript Xliv: Inaugural Lecture: History, Lies and Mythology – the Historian and the Community
Alan Ward (1935–2014) delivered his inaugural professorial address at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, on 23 March 1988. Following his 1987 promotion to Professor, a position he held until his retirement in 1996, the lecture marked a milestone in his career, which to that point had included not only his influential study, A Show of Justice: Racial ‘Amalgamation’ in Nineteenth Century New Zealand (1974), but also important work on lan…
Sous le radar colonial: Histoire et mémoire d’un foyer multiracial « invisible » en Nouvelle-Calédonie
Les recherches sur les intimités interraciales en contexte colonial s'intéressent généralement à des cas de litiges administratifs ou de conflits judiciaires qui ont attiré l'attention des autorités coloniales vis-à-vis de certains ' couples mixtes ', ' familles multiraciales ' et autres individus ' métis '. Mais qu'en est-il de la vie et de l'expérience de celles et ceux qui n'ont pas contesté leur statut légal et sont restés sous le ' radar adm…
Under the Colonial Radar: The History and Memory of an “Invisible” Mixed-Race Household in New Caledonia
An expanding scholarship on interracial intimacy in colonial contexts has generally focused on cases of administrative disputes or judicial conflicts that brought “mixed couples,” “mixed-race families,” or “ métis ” to the attention of colonial authorities. But what of the lives and experiences of those who did not contest their legal status, remaining under the administrative radar and thus virtually invisible in the archives of the colonial sta…
Words, Values, and Actions: Reading the Lives of Chiefs, Pastors, and Leaders in Kanaky New Caledonia
History (19 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (17 works) · Political science (14 works) · Archaeology (10 works) · Colonialism (10 works) · New Caledonia Indigenous Studies (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (8 works)