n his remarkable book (2021), Amitav Ghosh roots anthropogenic climate change in colonial conceptions of nature, wherein the organic world is sterilized as an inanimate resource, to be taken and controlled. This view extends into imperial formulations of, the word for history used on the Banda Islands, is etymologically tied with (mountain), and reflects how the islands’ Gunung Api volcano is enfolded as a protagonist in local narratives.
