Katerina Teaiwa's book (2014) "Consuming Ocean: Island Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba" is an excellent piece of scholarship.

It discusses how Banaba was understood and seen in different ways by Banabans, mine workers and industrialists. And the Banabans themsekves displaced and their island consumed by mining.

#PacificStudies #Oceania #mining

https://iupress.org/9780253014528/consuming-ocean-island/

Beautiful and timely essay by Katerina Teaiwa on how Banaban Island was changed by phosphate mining beyond a tipping point for the benefit of industrial profits and detriment of the dispalced Banabans.

And Banaban is a microcosm of what happens on a planetary scale. As Teaiwa's elder sister Teresia noted, we must learn from Pacifuc Islanders how to 'island' (verb), i.e. live as if we lived on islands.

#Oceania #PacificStudies #mining #ClimateChange
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/03/no-more-drinking-water-little-food-our-island-is-a-field-of-bones

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