Perhaps no community has undergone more versions of imperialism than the tiny island nation of Nauru, which has morphed from being "Pleasant Island" to the mined-out home of offshore banks, discarded refugees, and deep sea mining interests. Jason, Rob, and Asher take a bad trip to wrap their heads around Nauru, the topic of "psychedelic imperialism," and imperialism's new frontier - the clean energy transition.
Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.
Sources/Links/Notes:
• "A Dark History of the World's Smallest Island Nation (thereader.mitp...) " tells the tale of Nauru.
• S.J. Gale, "Lies and misdemeanours: Nauru, phosphate and global geopolitics (www.sciencedir...) ," The Extractive Industries and Society, vol 6, July 2019.
• FAQs (metals.co/freq...) of the Metals Company
• Eric Lipton's New York Times article about imperialistic mining (www.nytimes.co...) of the Pacific Ocean floor.
• Mining Watch Canada questions the claims (www.miningwatc...) of the Metals Company.
• Elham Shabahat's article in Hakai Magazine, "Why Nauru Is Pushing the World Toward Deep-Sea Mining (hakaimagazine....) "
• Definition of imperialism (www.law.cornel...) from the Cornell Law School
• J.A. Hobson's book Imperialism: A Study (search.worldca...)
• Jason Hickel et al., "Imperialist appropriation in the world economy (www.sciencedir...) : Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990-2015," Global Environmental Change, vol 73, March 2022.
• Critique of lithium extraction (globaljusticee...) in the Atacama Desert
• Indigenous people's response (www.firstnatio...) to lithium mining in Nevada
• How the Sami people are protesting (www.theguardia...) Sweden's "green transformation"
• Episode 3 of the Holding the Fire podcast (www.resilience...) , featuring Sami leader Aslak Holmberg
• Cobus van Staden on "Green Energy's Dirty Secret: Its Hunger for African Resources (foreignpolicy....) "
• Jim Robbins in Yale Environment 360 on "How Returning Lands to Native Tribes Is Helping Protect Nature (e360.yale.edu/...) "
• "Indigenous Land Return Announcement (sogoreate-land...) by Sogorea Te’ Land Trust and Movement Generation!" -- article by Ines Ixierda
• "New Zealands's Maori fought for reparations -- and won (www.vox.com/th...)
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