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Translocal Entwinements

其他書名	Toward a History of Rabi as a Plantation Island in Colonial Fiji
出版	GOEDOC, Dokumenten- und Publikationsserver der Georg-August-Universität, 2011
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fs7JjgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The texture of place is the product of a historically and culturally specific nexus of relationships, often transcending by far local and regional networks. Translocal connections are unearthed by reconstructing how a certain island away to the north-east of the Fijian archipelago, Rabi Island, was progressively remade as a colonial landscape of plantations. Against the backdrop of a history of translocal entwinements Rabi Island reveals itself as a relational place, which plantation workers from Melanesia and Micronesia, and even from distant India, operating under a regime of colonial administrators, European owners, lessees and managers, helped to shape, indeed reshape, over a period lasting some eighty years. The local given of a plantation economy on Rabi Island delivered, in the aftermath of World War II, the spatial and economic platform for resettlement of the Banabans, a community whose home island, Banaba, situated far away in the Central Pacific, had been rendered largely uninhabitable by industrial-scale phosphate mining. Thus, colonial power structures were integrally involved in forging relationships between the islands of Banaba and Rabi.