Consuming Ocean Island - (Tracking Globalization) by Katerina Martina Teaiwa (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The Banaban experience offers insight into the plight of other island peoples facing forced migration as a result of human impact on the environment.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>Consuming Ocean Island</i> tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for phosphate, an essential ingredient in fertilizer. As mining stripped away the island's surface, the land was rendered uninhabitable, and the indigenous Banabans were relocated to Rabi Island in Fiji. Katerina Martina Teaiwa tells the story of this human and ecological calamity by weaving together memories, records, and images from displaced islanders, colonial administrators, and employees of the mining company. Her compelling narrative reminds us of what is at stake whenever the interests of industrial agriculture and indigenous minorities come into conflict. The Banaban experience offers insight into the plight of other island peoples facing forced migration as a result of human impact on the environment. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>A detailed ethnography of Banaba undertaken by a researcher who hails from this 'very, very small island' . . . is an example of reflectivity and insightful scholarship. This is not a book to be taken lightly, but rather should be suggested to anyone with an interest in material culture, globalization, and post-colonial and ecological studies.</p>-- "Antipode"<br><br><p>By bringing gritty ethnographic detail, an omnivorous approach to sources, and surprising narrative innovations to bear on such topics, Teaiwa's book moves the social history of Earth's biogeochemical cycles into fertile new terrain.</p>-- "The Journal of Pacific History"<br><br><p>Recommended.</p>-- "Choice"<br><br><p>Teaiwa deals with the great sense of betrayal, loss, and displacement indigenous Banabans suffered through as well as the harsh physical toll decades of excessive mining has taken on the land. With a justified sense of outrage, Teaiwa educates her audience without alienating it, laying bare the consequences of reaping such a natural bounty at the expense of others.</p>-- "Publishers Weekly"<br><br><p>Teaiwa displays artfully the powerful potential of interdisciplinarity as an approach toward gaining a richer and deeper understanding of Pacific pasts and peoples.</p>-- "The Contemporary Pacific"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Katerina Martina Teaiwa is Head of the Department of Gender, Media and Cultural Studies and Pacific Studies Convener in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. Born and raised in the Fiji Islands, she is of Banaban, I-Kiribati, and African American heritage.</p>
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