Possession Island (Crozet atchipelago, french antarctic and austral territories : ethnology of "missions" on a desert island authorizing, thanks to circumstances, the in-depth study of the scapegoat process

From 1964 on, around 30 people belonging to what is called a « mission » spend a year on Possession Island, an uninhabitated French island located in the southern Indian Ocean. Sending militaries, contract workers and scientists all put together enables France both to ensure its sovereignty and to l...

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Main Author: Baquier, Alain
Other Authors: Nice, Candau, Joël
Format: Thesis
Language:French
Published: 2013
Subjects:
geo
Online Access:http://www.theses.fr/2013NICE2002
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spelling fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:10670/1.0dls7t 2023-05-15T13:39:15+02:00 Possession Island (Crozet atchipelago, french antarctic and austral territories : ethnology of "missions" on a desert island authorizing, thanks to circumstances, the in-depth study of the scapegoat process L'île de la Possession (Archipel Crozet, Terres australes et antarctiques françaises) : ethnologie de "missions" sur une ile déserte autorisant, à la faveur des circonstances, l'observation approfondie du processus du bouc émissaire Baquier, Alain Nice Candau, Joël 2013-02-06 http://www.theses.fr/2013NICE2002 fr fre 10670/1.0dls7t http://www.theses.fr/2013NICE2002 Theses.fr Bouc émissaire Isolement Confinement Accusation Isolation hist geo Thesis https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_46ec/ 2013 fttriple 2023-01-22T17:03:49Z From 1964 on, around 30 people belonging to what is called a « mission » spend a year on Possession Island, an uninhabitated French island located in the southern Indian Ocean. Sending militaries, contract workers and scientists all put together enables France both to ensure its sovereignty and to lead scientific research on a place which is notable for its location and wildlife. Social life takes place there like if under laboratory conditions : no one can flee group dynamics which go up to its achievment, or completeness. Thus social life cogs can be seen i.e. : the link between the necessity of finding and defending its own place whithin the group, following rivalries, accusations first dividing then unifying on a « faulty person » in a « salutary » movement. Many missions do not follow this natural scenario. They imitate the scenario which can not be played in such conditions. They make a scapegoat for a joke appear in the local folklore. Whereas psychologists, by choosing people sent on this island, select out persons they think will be guilty and prove therefore to which extent the lack of knowledge enables this spontaneous scenario. Depuis 1964, chaque année, une nouvelle « mission » composée d’une trentaine de personnes tout au plus, militaires, contractuels et scientifiques, est dépêchée pour un an sur l’île inhabitée de la Possession, située dans les Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises, au sud de l’Océan Indien, afin de garantir la souveraineté française sur ce lieu, remarquable par son isolement et sa faune, tout en y conduisant des activités de recherche. Cette situation de « huis clos » équivaut à une situation de laboratoire : l’impossibilité de se défaire de la dynamique de groupe en libère nécessairement le scénario exhaustif et donne ainsi nettement à voir les ressorts ordinaires de la vie sociale : le lien entre la nécessité de trouver et défendre sa place dans le groupe, les rivalités qui s’ensuivent, les accusations qui divisent et la convergence salvatrice des accusateurs sur un « ... Thesis Antarc* Antarctic Antarctique* Archipel Crozet Possession Island Unknown Antarctic Austral French Island ENVELOPE(-56.098,-56.098,50.050,50.050) Indian Possession Island ENVELOPE(171.200,171.200,-71.867,-71.867)
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topic Bouc émissaire
Isolement
Confinement
Accusation
Isolation
hist
geo
spellingShingle Bouc émissaire
Isolement
Confinement
Accusation
Isolation
hist
geo
Baquier, Alain
Possession Island (Crozet atchipelago, french antarctic and austral territories : ethnology of "missions" on a desert island authorizing, thanks to circumstances, the in-depth study of the scapegoat process
topic_facet Bouc émissaire
Isolement
Confinement
Accusation
Isolation
hist
geo
description From 1964 on, around 30 people belonging to what is called a « mission » spend a year on Possession Island, an uninhabitated French island located in the southern Indian Ocean. Sending militaries, contract workers and scientists all put together enables France both to ensure its sovereignty and to lead scientific research on a place which is notable for its location and wildlife. Social life takes place there like if under laboratory conditions : no one can flee group dynamics which go up to its achievment, or completeness. Thus social life cogs can be seen i.e. : the link between the necessity of finding and defending its own place whithin the group, following rivalries, accusations first dividing then unifying on a « faulty person » in a « salutary » movement. Many missions do not follow this natural scenario. They imitate the scenario which can not be played in such conditions. They make a scapegoat for a joke appear in the local folklore. Whereas psychologists, by choosing people sent on this island, select out persons they think will be guilty and prove therefore to which extent the lack of knowledge enables this spontaneous scenario. Depuis 1964, chaque année, une nouvelle « mission » composée d’une trentaine de personnes tout au plus, militaires, contractuels et scientifiques, est dépêchée pour un an sur l’île inhabitée de la Possession, située dans les Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises, au sud de l’Océan Indien, afin de garantir la souveraineté française sur ce lieu, remarquable par son isolement et sa faune, tout en y conduisant des activités de recherche. Cette situation de « huis clos » équivaut à une situation de laboratoire : l’impossibilité de se défaire de la dynamique de groupe en libère nécessairement le scénario exhaustif et donne ainsi nettement à voir les ressorts ordinaires de la vie sociale : le lien entre la nécessité de trouver et défendre sa place dans le groupe, les rivalités qui s’ensuivent, les accusations qui divisent et la convergence salvatrice des accusateurs sur un « ...
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Candau, Joël
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title Possession Island (Crozet atchipelago, french antarctic and austral territories : ethnology of "missions" on a desert island authorizing, thanks to circumstances, the in-depth study of the scapegoat process
title_short Possession Island (Crozet atchipelago, french antarctic and austral territories : ethnology of "missions" on a desert island authorizing, thanks to circumstances, the in-depth study of the scapegoat process
title_full Possession Island (Crozet atchipelago, french antarctic and austral territories : ethnology of "missions" on a desert island authorizing, thanks to circumstances, the in-depth study of the scapegoat process
title_fullStr Possession Island (Crozet atchipelago, french antarctic and austral territories : ethnology of "missions" on a desert island authorizing, thanks to circumstances, the in-depth study of the scapegoat process
title_full_unstemmed Possession Island (Crozet atchipelago, french antarctic and austral territories : ethnology of "missions" on a desert island authorizing, thanks to circumstances, the in-depth study of the scapegoat process
title_sort possession island (crozet atchipelago, french antarctic and austral territories : ethnology of "missions" on a desert island authorizing, thanks to circumstances, the in-depth study of the scapegoat process
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