Consuming Ocean Island Jane Mather and coordinated approach to life

and coordinated approach to life

bodily nature

with minimal mess and fuss

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and linguistic identities

Consuming Ocean Island Jane Mather and coordinated approach to lifeThe Banaban experience offers insight into the plight of other island peoples facing forced migration as a result of human impact on the environment. 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 islands surface, the land was rendered uninhabitable, and the indigenous Banabans