‘Wallis and Futuna Have Never Been a Colony’: A Non-sovereign Island Territory Negotiating Primary Education with Metropolitan France

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dc.citation.issue1
dc.citation.volume92
dc.contributor.authorPrinsen G
dc.contributor.authorLotti A
dc.contributor.authorWorliczek E
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-31T01:37:02Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-03T04:46:05Z
dc.date.available2023-10-31T01:37:02Z
dc.date.available2023-11-03T04:46:05Z
dc.date.issued2022-03
dc.description.abstractWallis and Futuna are a French overseas collectivity in Oceania. In 1969, the French state formally ceded responsibility for the territory's primary education to the Catholic mission and reimburses related expenses. Against this backdrop, this article uses the negotiations about primary education between these two non-sovereign island territories and their colonial metropole to explore islanders' views of the relationship. We conducted interviews with eight representatives of local institutions associated with primary education and we analyzed relevant official agreements. Our analysis suggests that, from the islanders' perspective, the negotiations with metropolitan France about policies and funding for primary education are driven by different identities located within a shared national identity. We find these identities are not merely different, but complementary in a non-hierarchical fashion. We also find that these identities seem to be mutually constituted between metropolitans and islanders through negotiations that are often adversarial and—from the islanders' view—predicated on detailed knowledge of the history of these negotiations. In addition, the resulting education policies regularly see primary schools receiving unequal treatment in comparison to schools in metropolitan France. However, in counterweight, islanders can also succeed in giving unequal treatment to metropolitan regulations by bending them to suit local interests or values.
dc.format.pagination133-153
dc.identifier.citationPrinsen G, Lotti A, Worliczek E. (2022). ‘Wallis and Futuna Have Never Been a Colony’: A Non-sovereign Island Territory Negotiating Primary Education with Metropolitan France. Oceania. 92. 1. (pp. 133-153).
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/ocea.5332
dc.identifier.eissn1834-4461
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn0029-8077
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/69004
dc.publisherJohn Wiley and Sons Australia Ltd on behalf of Oceania Publications (OP)
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dc.rights(c) 2022 The Author/s
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.title‘Wallis and Futuna Have Never Been a Colony’: A Non-sovereign Island Territory Negotiating Primary Education with Metropolitan France
dc.typeJournal article
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