Bougival Accord at deadlock: ‘Nothing can transfer ahead with out participation of Kanak individuals’

Alison Sargent welcomes Dr. Andrew Smith, Historian of Fashionable France and Lecturer in Liberal Arts at Queen Mary College of London. Dr. Smith gives a considerate evaluation of the Bougival  settlement and its extremely contested reception in New Caledonia, drawing consideration to the deeper undercurrents of distrust, political plurality, and colonial legacy that form this pivotal second. The accord recognises a “state” inside France, but it additionally embeds mechanisms of management that reignite fears among the many Indigenous Kanak inhabitants of political marginalization.