{"product_id":"consuming-ocean-island-9780253014528","title":"Consuming Ocean Island","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTells 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. This book offers an insight into the plight of other island peoples facing forced migration as a result of human impact on the environment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeaiwa 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.\u003c\/p\u003e * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecommended.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e * Antipode *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeaiwa displays artfully the powerful potential of interdisciplinarity as an approach toward gaining a richer and deeper understanding of Pacific pasts and peoples.\u003c\/p\u003e * The Contemporary Pacific *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e * The Journal of Pacific History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrelude: Three Global Stories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Orthography and Geography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I. Phosphate Pasts\u003cbr\u003e1. The Little Rock That Feeds\u003cbr\u003e2. Stories of P \u003cbr\u003e3. Land from the Sea\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePart II. Mine\/lands\u003cbr\u003e4. Remembering Ocean Island\u003cbr\u003e5. Land from the Sky\u003cbr\u003e6. Interlude: Another Visit to Ocean Island\u003cbr\u003e7. E Kawa te aba: The Trials of the Ocean Islanders\u003cbr\u003e8. Remix: Our Sea of Phosphate (photo essay)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III. Between Our Islands\u003cbr\u003e9. Interlude: Coming Home to Fiji\u003cbr\u003e10. Between Rabi and Banaba\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCoda \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOcean Island\/Banaba Timeline\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400543543639,"sku":"9780253014528","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253014528.jpg?v=1730470940","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/consuming-ocean-island-9780253014528","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}