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The Lawfare Podcast

Chatter: Oceania's Nuclear and Climate Storytelling with Anaïs Maurer

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4.76.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Raised in Mā’ohi Nui (French Polynesia), Dr. Anaïs Maurer is assistant professor of literature at Rutgers University and author of The Ocean on Fire. Her research and writing, including this book, have explored the intersection of the legacy of colonial powers' massive nuclear detonations in Oceania, critical threats from climate change, and the stories the people of Oceania tell about it all.


David Priess chatted with Maurer about her experience growing up in Oceania, the scope of the nuclear detonations in the region, how the people of Oceania have addressed radiation effects through stories, why cultural resilience has remained a greater theme than individualism or victimhood, how these narratives inform our current era of climate change, and more.


Works mentioned in this episode:


The book The Ocean on Fire by Anaïs Maurer


The book Quand le cannibale ricane by Paul Tavo


The short story "Eden" in the collection Vai: La Rivière au ciel sans nuages by Ra'i Chaze


The book The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera


The visual art French Apocalypse Now by Cronos


The Coconut poetry series by Teresa Teaiwa


The book Pensées insolentes et inutiles by Chantal Spitz


Chatter is a production of Lawfare and Goat Rodeo. This episode was produced and edited by Cara Shillenn of Goat Rodeo. Podcast theme by David Priess, featuring music created using Groovepad.

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Welcome to Chatter. I'm David Priase. This week, Professor and Author Anaisais-More, on Oceania's Nuclear and Climate Storytelling.

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The Pacific is still often put in the margins.

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There's a lot of focus on the mythical red buttons on desks in

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Washington and Moscow and very little attention given to the material places at

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the margins of these Western mental maps in which the detonations actually happen.

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The extent of the detonations is comparable to the explosion of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima every day for half a century.

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That's an apocalypse. There's no other way to describe this level of destruction.

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Literature is not always about teaching lessons,

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but they're often about trying to imagine a different future.

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These artists and everyone I know in Tahiti who's committed about these issues often says we know what has been lost and we must now ensure that it will not happen again. And Aise, welcome to Chatter.

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Thank you.

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It's so nice to talk to you.

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I'm very excited to talk to you because I've read an amazing book that's outside of my comfort zone.

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It's not something that's in my normal area because I was a national security political science nerd, not a literature person.

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