1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910404079603321

Autore

Friedrich Bernd

Titolo

Sustainable Utilization of Metals: Processing, Recovery and Recycling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020

ISBN

3-03928-886-5

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (388 p.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The high demand for advanced metallic materials raises the need for an extensive recycling of metals and such a sustainable use of raw materials. ""Sustainable Utilization of Metals - Processing, Recovery and Recycling"" comprises the latest scientific achievements in efficient production of metals and such addresses sustainable resource use as part of the circular economy strategy. This policy drives the present contributions, aiming on the recirculation of EoL-streams such as Waste Electric and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), multi-metal alloys or composite materials back into metal production. This needs a holistic approach, resulting in the maximal avoidance of waste. Considering both aspects, circular economy and material design, recovery and use of minor metals play an essential role, since their importance for technological applications often goes along with a lack of supply on the world market. Additionally, their ignoble character and low concentration in recycling materials cause an insufficient recycling rate of these metals, awarding them the status of “critical metals”. In order to minimize losses and energy consumption, this issue explores concepts for the optimization concerning the interface between mechanical and thermal pre-treatment and metallurgical processes. Such new approaches in material design, structural engineering and substitution are provided in the chapters.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910619276903321

Autore

Merle Isabelle

Titolo

The Indigénat and France’s Empire in New Caledonia : Origins, Practices and Legacies / / by Isabelle Merle, Adrian Muckle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783030990336

3030990338

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (378 pages)

Collana

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, , 2635-1641

Disciplina

342.0872

995.97

Soggetti

Imperialism

France - History

World politics

Law - History

Imperialism and Colonialism

History of France

Political History

Legal History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- Part I. The Genesis of an Exceptional Regime in France, Algeria, Cochinchina and Oceania -- 2. The History of an 'Exceptional' Legal Regime -- 3. Voyage to Oceania: The Making of 'French Native Subjects' in Tahiti, the Marquesas and New Caledonia -- 4. Bringing the Indigénat to New Caledonia -- Part II. The Indigénat at Work in New Caledonia -- Chapter 5. Establishing the Indigénat: The Work of the Administrators and Chiefs -- 6. Stabilising a Colonial Order: Gendarmes, Grands Chefs and Petits Chefs -- 7. The Head Tax and the Making of the 'Native' -- 8. Controlling Mobility, Segregation and Sociability -- Part III. The Indigénat and the Condition of the 'Native' in the First Half of the Twentieth Century -- 9. The Impossible Reform: Debating the Indigénat in the Empire and in New Caledonia -- 10. Putting 'Natives' to Work: The Indigénat and the Colonial Labour



System between the Wars -- 11. The End of the Indigénat.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a long history of France’s infamous indigénat regime, from its origins in Algeria to its contested practices and legacies in France’s South Pacific territory of New Caledonia. The term indigénat is synonymous throughout the francophone world with the rigours and injustices of the colonial era under French rule. The indigénat regime or 'Native Code' governed the lives of peoples classified as French 'native' subjects in colonies as diverse as Algeria, West Africa, Madagascar, Indochina and New Caledonia. In New Caledonia it was introduced by decree in 1887 and remained in force until Kanak — New Caledonia’s indigenous people — obtained citizenship in 1946. Among the colonial tools and legal mechanisms associated with France’s colonial empire it is the one that has had the greatest impact on the memory of the colonized. Focussing on New Caledonia, the last remaining part of overseas France to have experienced the full force of the indigénat, this book illustrates the way that certain measures were translated into colonial practices, and sheds light on the tensions involved in the making of France as both a nation and a colonial empire. The first book to provide a comprehensive history of the indigénat regime, explaining how it first came into being and survived up until 1946 despite its constant denunciation, this is an important contribution to French Imperial History and Pacific History. Isabelle Merle is Director of Research in the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) attached to the Centre for Research and Documentation on Oceania (CREDO) at the University of Aix-Marseille in France. She is a specialist in the history of colonisation and the Pacific region, including New Caledonia. Her publications include two books and a wide range of articles on aspects of colonial history, such as subjecthood and citizenship. Adrian Muckle is a Senior Lecturer in the History Programme at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He is a historian of the Pacific Islands region including its intersection with histories of New Zealand and the French empire. His primary interests include colonialism, decolonisation, violence and race relations, with much of his research focussing on colonial rule and its legacies in New Caledonia.