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16 novembre 2020
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulm.5473
- isbn: 9782367812915
- eisbn: 9782367813639
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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écotones Guyane française Guyana Suriname migration travail engagé ecotones French Guyane Guyana Suriname migration indentured labour Geography SOC015000 RGCSujets proches
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Charles Forsdick, « ‘Bagne pas mort’: Exploring Penal Heritage in French Guiana », Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, ID : 10.4000/books.pulm.5473
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The bagne was abolished definitively in French Guiana in the interwar period, having already ceased to function in New Caledonia over three decades previously towards the end of the nineteenth-century. The penal colony nevertheless retains a contested status in the postcolonial French-speaking world. Meanings and memories of the institution are fragmented not only according to the scattered locations in which the vestiges of penal heritage sites are now located, but also in the light of the m...