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Adrian Muckle
Lecturer
BA (Hons) (Otago)
PhD (Australian National University)
Contact details
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OK426 |
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Wednesday 11:00am - 12:00pm |
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+64-4-463-6773 |
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+64-4-463-5261 |
Postgraduate Coordinator for 2009 (For MA and PhD students by thesis)
Lectures in
HIST 111: Colonial Encounters: Pacific Experiences (Not offered in 2009)
HIST 219: Pacific History
HIST 336: The Pacific Islands after 1945
HIST 403: A Topic in Pacific History: Pacification, Warfare and Violence in the Pacific
And provides postgraduate supervision.
Research Areas
- 19th and 20th century Pacific History
- New Caledonia
- Colonialism and Colonial Societies
- Violence and Race Relations
Adrian’s Ph.D. thesis (2004) examined a war that took place in the north of New Caledonia in 1917-18. One of the major themes of this study and his ongoing research is the place of fear, rumour and violence in the maintenance of colonial power relations and the confrontation that ensued from their collapse. A monograph based on the thesis—with the working title, Spectres of Violence in a Colonial Context: New Caledonia, 1917—is in preparation.
Adrian’s other areas of research include: the place of works of history and literature—historical and literary representations of the past—in debates about Kanak and non-Kanak identities and decolonisation in New Caledonia and in the Pacific islands more generally; nineteenth and early twentieth-century colonial history; and violence.
Current Research Projects
Adrian’s current projects include: a study of the special infractions that were a part of the indigénat régime in New Caledonia from 1887 to 1946; and “New Caledonia in Oceania”, an exploration of the connections between New Caledonia and its Pacific neighbours in terms of the circulation of ideas, models, peoples and the comparative analysis of colonial projects and policies as well as of their social consequences and legacies.
Current collaborative projects with members of the Research Group on New Caledonia (GDRNC) include: a study of Kanak stockmen (with Benoît Trépied); a broader study of the indigénat (with Isabelle Merle) and a discussion of oral histories of the 1917-18 war (with Alban Bensa). In the future Adrian hopes to further research the history of New Caledonia’s Koné region in the period 1860-1945.
Articles and Chapters
‘Troublesome chiefs and disorderly subjects: the internment of Kanak under the indigénat—New Caledonia, 1887-1946’. Journal of French Colonial History, forthcoming 2010-11.
‘No more violence nor war’: twenty years of nation-building in New Caledonia. Journal of Pacific History, vol. 44, no.2 (2009), pp.179-194.
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La « Dernière Révolte » de Nouvelle-Calédonie-Kanaky: Vision de conflits passés dans un avenir commun.’ In Isabelle Merle and Else Faugère (ed.), La Nouvelle-Calédonie, vers un destin commun ? Nouveaux Enjeux, Nouveaux Terrains. Paris: Editions Karthala, forthcoming July 2009.
‘La « Dernière Révolte » de Nouvelle-Calédonie-Kanaky : Vision de conflits passés dans un avenir commun’. Mwà Véé: revue culturelle kanak, no.62 (2008), pp.8–19.
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Kanak Experiences of WW1: New Caledonia’s tirailleurs and rebels.’ History Compass, 6/5 (2008), pp.1325–1345.
‘“Neo” lands in Oceania: New Caledonia and New Zealand.’ In S. Levine and F. Angleviel (ed.), New Zealand – New Caledonia: Neighbours, Friends, Partners; La Nouvelle-Zélande et la Nouvelle-Calédonie: Voisins, amis et partenaires. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2008, pp.212–237.
‘Tropes of (mis)understanding—imagining shared destinies in New Caledonia, 1853-1998.’ Journal de la Société des Océanistes, 124 (2007), pp.105–118.
‘The “Chief without Power”? Téâ Antoine Katélia and the War of 1917-18 in New Caledonia.’ Journal of Pacific History, vol. 41, no.3 (2006), pp.313–334.
‘Killing the “Fantôme Canaque”: Evoking and Invoking the Possibility of Revolt in New Caledonia (1853-1915).’ Journal of Pacific History, vol. 37, no.1 (2002), pp.25–44.
(with Lorenzo Veracini) ‘Reflections of Indigenous History inside the National Museums of Australia and New Zealand and outside of New Caledonia’s Centre Culturel Jean-Marie Tjibaou.’ Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History (2002) http://www.jcu.edu.au/aff/history/articles/veracini_muckle.htm
Other Selected Publications
- ‘Noël de Tiamou et ses « frères ».’ Mwà Véé: revue culturelle kanak, no.62 (2008), pp.44–46.
- ed. (with G.K. Ward) The Power of Knowledge, the Resonance of Tradition. Electronic publication of papers from the AIATSIS Indigenous Studies conference, September 2001. Canberra: AIATSIS Research Program, 2005, http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/1370/Indigenous_studies_conf_2001.pd
- (with David Hegarty and Darrell Tryon) ‘Introduction’ to the New Pacific Review – La Nouvelle Revue du Pacifique, vol. 2 (2004), pp.7–13.
‘The War of 1917 in New Caledonia.’ RSPAS Quarterly Bulletin, March 2004, 12–13. Available http://rspas.anu.edu.au/qb/articleFile.php?searchterm=5-1-4
Selected Conference Papers Delivered
- The “special infractions”: New Caledonia’s indigénat regulations, 1887-1946. Pacific History Association Conference, Suva, 8-12 December 2008.
- Neo lands in Oceania: New Caledonia and New Zealand. New Zealand History Association Conference, 23-25 November 2007.
- Raising the Savage: repression, negotiation and the agency of violence and non-violence in New Caledonia. American Historical Association Conference, Atlanta, 4-7 January 2007.
- Troublesome chiefs and disorderly subjects: the internment of Kanak under the indigénat—New Caledonia, 1887-1946. Pacific History Association Conference, Dunedin, 6-10 December 2006.
- The wars at Koné, Tipindjé and Hienghène, 1917—a reassessment. Pacific History Association Conference, Nouméa and Koné, December 2004.
- Kanaky/New Caledonia in Oceania? Pacific Islands Political Studies Association Conference, Nouméa, 3–5 December 2004.
Selected Seminars and other Presentations
- ‘No more violence nor war’: politics in New Caledonia, 1999-2009. VUW History Programme Seminar, 8 May 2009.
- The “special infractions”. Presentation to GDRNC, Paris, 10 October 2008.
- Neo lands in Oceania: an essay in triangulation. Invited presentation given at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Postgraduate dinner in conjunction with ‘Stepping Forward 2006—An Interdisciplinary Conference for Emerging Researchers’, University of Waikato, 17 October 2006.
- New Caledonia: History and recent developments. Presentation to NZ Staff College, Trentham, 31 July 2006.
- Kanaky New Caledonia's "Last Revolt": visions of past conflict in a shared future. School of History, Philosophy and Politics Seminar, Massey University, Palmerston North, 13 April 2006.
Recent Postgraduate Supervision
- Samuel Ritchie, ‘[T]he sound of the bell amidst the wilds’: Evangelical Perceptions of Northern Aotearoa/New Zealand Māori and the Aboriginal Peoples of Port Phillip Australia, c.1820s-1840s, MA thesis, 2009 (with Charlotte Macdonald).
Esther McGill, Flags as Power Play in Maori and Pakeha Relations, HIST 489 Research Essay, 2006. - Peter Carter, The Flying Minister, the War Council, and Bases: The Rise of International Commercial Aviation and US–New Zealand Relations, 1935-1945, HIST 489 Research Essay, 2005.
Other Contributions
Adrian is a member of the Pacific History Association and an associate member of the Paris-based CNRS Research Group on New Caledonia (Nouvelle-Calédonie: Enjeux Sociaux Contemporains). He currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Pacific History. In 2007 he served as Secretary of the New Zealand Historical Association. In 2006 he chaired the sessions on “New Caledonia: development and globalisation” (“La Nouvelle-Calédonie, le développement et la mondialisation”) at the Workshops on Governance and Applied Research (Ateliers « gouvernance et recherche appliquée »), Nouméa, 24-28 April.
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