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The Banaban experience offers insight into the plight of other island peoples facing forced migration as a result of human impact on the environment.
List of contents
Prelude: Three Global Stories
Acknowledgments
Notes on Orthography and Geography
Part I. Phosphate Pasts
1. The Little Rock That Feeds
2. Stories of P
3. Land from the Sea
Part II. Mine/lands
4. Remembering Ocean Island
5. Land from the Sky
6. Interlude: Another Visit to Ocean Island
7. E Kawa te aba: The Trials of the Ocean Islanders
8. Remix: Our Sea of Phosphate (photo essay)
Part III. Between Our Islands
9. Interlude: Coming Home to Fiji
10. Between Rabi and Banaba
Coda
Ocean Island/Banaba Timeline
Notes
Bibliography
About the author
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.
Summary
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. This book offers an insight into the plight of other island peoples facing forced migration as a result of human impact on the environment.
