Ruining Pacific Islands: Australia's Phosphate Imperialism

Teaiwa, Katerina

doi:10.1080/1031461x.2015.1082609

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“…By 1968, when Australia granted Nauru sovereignty, the local population relied on imported food. With a surge in royalties from final deposits, they struggled with health and social problems and officials misused funds, often under 'advice' from unscrupulous international investment advisers (Teaiwa 2015). By the 1990s, the small-island state sought survival as a money laundering haven.…”

Section: Climate Crisis Victims As Savagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is now highly vulnerable to climate change, drought and rising sea levels but has limited resources to effectively respond (Klein 2014). Today, the people of Nauru are regularly blamed for 'mismanaging' their situation, yet their history is one of entrenched exploitation and land dispossession for the benefit of powerful states (Teaiwa 2015).…”

Section: Climate Crisis Victims As Savagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Climate Crises and the Creation of ‘Undeserving’ Victims

Stanley

2021

Social Sciences

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This paper explores how advanced liberal democracies respond to climate migrants in ways that reflect colonial logics and practices. With a focus on the Pacific, it reflects on three constructions of climate crisis victims. First, as savages—those incapable of adapting or thriving under catastrophic environmental threats and who need to be saved by ‘the West’. Secondly, as threats—the hordes who will threaten white civilization and who must be sorted, excluded, detained and deported. Thirdly, as ‘non-ideal’ victims—those undeserving of full legal protections but who may survive under hostile conditions in receiving states. These political and policy responses create systemic harms and injustice for those who struggle under or must flee environmental degradation, and they function to ensure that those most to blame for climate crises are prioritized as having least responsibility to take action. The paper concludes with consideration of socially just responses to those most affected from climate harms.

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Climate Crises and the Creation of ‘Undeserving’ Victims

Stanley

2021

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“…The forced—and often fatal—displacement of the Indigenous inhabitants following European settlement/invasion is key to Australia’s colonial past (Hill 1995). Imperial and colonial practices toward the Indigenous inhabitants of the land are ongoing (Moreton-Robinson 2015), and Australia has a domineering and exploitative relationship with its smaller and poorer neighboring countries (Bramble 2015; Teaiwa 2015; J. K. Watson 2015).…”

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(Big) Data and the North-in-South: Australia’s Informational Imperialism and Digital Colonialism

Mann

Daly

2018

Television & New Media

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Australia is a country firmly part of the Global North, yet geographically located in the Global South. This North-in-South divide plays out internally within Australia given its status as a British settler-colonial society which continues to perpetrate imperial and colonial practices vis-à-vis the Indigenous peoples and vis-à-vis Australia’s neighboring countries in the Asia-Pacific region. This article draws on and discusses five seminal examples forming a case study on Australia to examine big data practices through the lens of Southern Theory from a criminological perspective. We argue that Australia’s use of big data cements its status as a North-in-South environment where colonial domination is continued via modern technologies to effect enduring informational imperialism and digital colonialism. We conclude by outlining some promising ways in which data practices can be decolonized through Indigenous Data Sovereignty but acknowledge these are not currently the norm; so Australia’s digital colonialism/coloniality endures for the time being.

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“…64 Unlike the morally compromised phosphate imperialism under way in the Pacific, its absence of indigenous peoples made Antarctica the 'ideal settler colony' for a program of Australian water resource extraction to sustain its own settler colonial project. 65 Western Australian water dreaming Schwerdtfeger, meanwhile, had returned to Australia with renewed commitment and singled out Western Australia for particular attention. A month after the Iowa conference, the CSIRO state committee invited him to attend their December meeting in Perth, thus initiating a flurry of local interest in the prospect of iceberg utilisation.…”

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Dry continent dreaming: Australian visions of using Antarctic icebergs for water supplies

Morgan¹

2018

IREH

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This article traces the little-studied development of Australian interest in iceberg utilisation from the 1960s to the early 1990s. Fostered by Cold War global anxieties about water availability, iceberg utilisation offered a means to overcome hydrological limits to growth. Drawing on Patrick McCray's characterisation of the 'visioneer', this article examines the arguments that Australian scientists raised in support of iceberg utilisation during the 1970s and 1980s. Focusing on Perth, Western Australia, as a prospective destination for harvested Antarctic icebergs, Australian visioneers appealed to settler narratives of heroic water engineering, and Antarctic exploration and exploitation. Although their scheme for iceberg utilisation was unrealised, its study reveals the particular circumstances that shaped the visioneers and their vision as well as the circumstances that hindered their achievement.

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Ruining Pacific Islands: Australia's Phosphate Imperialism

Cited by 30 publications

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Climate Crises and the Creation of ‘Undeserving’ Victims

Climate Crises and the Creation of ‘Undeserving’ Victims

(Big) Data and the North-in-South: Australia’s Informational Imperialism and Digital Colonialism

Dry continent dreaming: Australian visions of using Antarctic icebergs for water supplies

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