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Consuming Ocean Island 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.
- Sales Rank: #764558 in Books
- Published on: 2014-12-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 6.25" w x .75" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 272 pages
Review
"Recommended." ―Choice
"Consuming Ocean Island is an ethnographic and analytic tour-de-force. Writing an intimate cultural history of the island of Banaba, Kiribati, conjoined with a history of phosphate and its extraction, Katerina Teaiwa places us amid unsettling stories of mining and its violent transformations―phosphate turned to fertilizer, a bountiful Pacific homeland left desolate, a people and their island’s very earth dispersed around the globe. In part a moving family story, this brilliant ethnography offers new ways to track globalization, dispersal, and creative recovery." ―Kirin Narayan, author of Alive in the Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov
"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." ―Publishers Weekly
"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." ―Antipode
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.
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Interesting and frustrating in turn
By Gavan Connell
I bought this book because of my family's history on Banaba dating back to before the war. My father, Bryan Connell was posted to the island before the war and was one of the last to leave before it was occupied by the Japanese. He returned immediately after the cessation of hostilities along with my mother and sister. He was actively engaged in three separate 'recruits' in the forties and early fifties. He donated a stained glass window to the Catholic Church, which is presumably still intact. I was born in Melbourne and went to Banaba at the age of two months and my brother was born there on Banaba. I have read several texts relating to the phosphate industry, including 'The Phosphateers' which is used as a reference by the author, which my father had. I have also read Grimble's 'A pattern of Islands' and 'Return to the Islands', both of which my father, (who knew Grimble) claimed were basically romantic rubbish, thinly based on fact. My family stayed on Banaba until 1959 at which time we all moved to Nauru, the other island which also features in this book. I last visited Banaba in 1968, when it was still in full swing as a phosphate -producing island.
I found the book to be interesting in parts, hard work in others due to the excessive use of vocabulary usually confined to academic papers, the excessive use towards the end of passages in Gilbertese, and somewhat lacking credibility in the part about white employees of the British Phosphate Commission (BPC) and their life in the fifties and sixties. For example, I remember quite well the day we had the phone installed in the mid fifties. My father as assistant accountant was one of those who was 'chosen' as one of the first to get a line. To have read that someone arrived on the island in the thirties and that the European houses had telephones is just not correct. We lived next door to the Wills family in Tabwewa and my sister is friends with the eldest of the THREE not four sisters to this day. Noel Frye was NOT an engineer but was manager of the trade store. Harry Wills was a big man but Bert Pascal was the island accountant of the day, not Harry. 'Mac' MacRobert was one of the personalities of the two islands in my time. It is suggested in the book he was gay. This is unsubstantiated and serves only to give a little chuckle to the stories of Mary Zaysmer, who, based on the fact she got everything wrong about the Wills family, has no credibility in my eyes. This section of the book is weakly researched and a cursory glance at Facebook would have allowed dozens of people to be contacted through one of the Island sites.
I have no doubt that the author did plenty of research at an academic level and the book no doubt serves as an interesting and passionate account of how the Banabans lost so much physically, emotionally and culturally. To this day the tussle continues. It may be of interest to the author that the decision to relocate the Banabans was seen by many or even most of the individual BPC staffers who were on the island after the war as highly beneficial to them. My father used to say that Rabi was a far better island than Banaba and their future was secure in a place where natural resources like water and fertile soil were abundant. It reflects the paternal, even patronizing approach we had to the islanders at the time. These days it would never happen but we can't turn back time. Likewise, the use of the term, 'boy' was used as we in Australia would say, 'mate' to someone we don't know. In fact the common use for us was 'noh' (short 'o') which was how they addressed themselves if they didn't know each other's names. And the wash 'janes' were wash 'tianes', which, unless I am mistaken is a word meaning 'girl' or 'woman'. I am prepared to be wrong there but it has been a long time.
This book is not for everybody and if you are a former Phosphateer or the descendant of one , you will find it unfulfilling. If you want some historical insight into the Colonial approach to the displacement of an indigenous people for 'the greater good', you might find it inside.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Follow the phosphate.
By Dastardly_Diego
This author provides a history of the Island of Banaba, its people, their culture and the phosphate. Skillfully written Teaiwa manages to blend history, social theory and cultural study with the political economics of phosphate. Unfortunately this book does not discuss the ecology of the region or phosphate mining's affects on the environment or health. However it is excellent in most other respects.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
... which was denuded of its phosphate deposits to the great benefit of NZ and Australia
By peter dreaver
A very scholarly and comprehensive history of a tiny island which was denuded of its phosphate deposits to the great benefit of NZ and Australia, but at the expense of its inhabitants, the Banabans.
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