Starting from two case studies, the Belep Islands (New Caledonia) and Futuna (Wallis and Futuna), this essay presents the hypothesis that colonial and post-colonial dynamics tend to reproduce, as in fractals, the centre-periphery model. In the ‘Francophone Pacific’ inter-island relationships have historically been created in which the peripheral islands of islands claim their autonomy and, at times, their total independence from the central island. This is the case for Futuna, a peripheral Polynesian island that claims autonomy from Wallis. It is also the case for Belep, in the extreme north of New Caledonia, which suffers from persistent marginality with regard to the Grande Terre. Decolonisation of Futuna and Belep seems possible at the cost of dismantling the centre-periphery fractal model. These islands of islands show us how the reticular model, the enhancement of relationships and reciprocity, and the recovery of their complexity are a possible way out of colonialism.

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岛屿群岛：对东富图纳群岛（沃利斯和富图纳群岛）和贝勒普群岛（新喀里多尼亚）的中心-外围分形模型的回应

从两个案例研究开始，即贝勒普群岛（新喀里多尼亚）和富图纳群岛（沃利斯和富图纳群岛），本文提出了这样的假说，即殖民地和后殖民地的动力学倾向于重现中心外围模型，就像分形一样。历史上在“法兰克太平洋”中建立了岛际关系，在这些关系中，外围的岛屿要求自治，有时甚至完全脱离中央岛屿。福图纳群岛就是这种情况，福图纳群岛是玻利尼西亚的一个外围岛屿，声称拥有瓦利斯自治权。位于新喀里多尼亚最北部的贝勒普（Belep）的情况也是如此，该地区在大特雷（Grande Terre）地区一直处于边缘地位。Futuna和Belep的非殖民化似乎有可能以拆除中心外围分形模型为代价。