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A great example of such earthly human history can be found in Vanessa Agard-Jones’ ‘What the sands remember’ (2012).
This is written at a time of severe and apparently legal xenophobic immigration restrictions in the UK, US and other European countries.
1651 marks the mass suicide of the last remaining Caribs on Grenada by jumping off a cliff. Many rocks and places in the Caribbean are named after Carib suicides under colonialism, such as Caribs’ Leap, Sauteurs on Grenada, and Tombeau de Caraïbes on Martinique.
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Last, A. to risk the Earth: the nonhuman and nonhistory. Fem Rev 118, 87–92 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41305-018-0099-6
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