Format:
1 online resource (342 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783031242434
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society Series
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgment -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Part I: Materialities: Extraction, Logistics -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Conceptualizing Hinterlands -- Defining the Hinterland -- Colonial and Postcolonial Hinterlands -- Contemporary Hinterlands -- Looking from the Hinterland -- Part I-Materialities: Extraction, Logistics -- Part II-Affectivities: Abandonment, Dreaming -- Part III-Ecologies: Care, Transformation -- References -- Chapter 2: Belly of the World: Toxicity, Innocence, and Indigestibility in Plastic China -- Eating Time: Plastics Between Post/socialism and Global Capitalism -- The Ends of Life: Toxicity and Inertia -- Innocence and the Toxic Sublime -- Waste: Between Consubstantiation and Localization -- Closing -- References -- Chapter 3: Cultivating Hinterland: What Lies Behind Agnes Denes' Wheatfield? -- Planting Ideas -- Unearthing Extractivism -- Growing Complications -- Harvesting Complexity -- References -- Chapter 4: Dividing, Connecting, and Complicating the Hinterland: The Lower !Garib/Orange River -- Understanding Hinterlands from a Hinterland -- Shifting Hinterlands and Colonial Borders -- Farming and Agriculture: A Rural Economy or a Colonial Hinterland? -- Spaces of Inclusion and Exclusion: A Mining Hinterland? -- New Dynamics Along the Lower !Garib -- References -- Chapter 5: The Coast Bouleverses at Kolkata -- Seeing Kolkata's Hinterland -- The Old Hinterland -- British Port-Hinterland Axis: First Moment -- British Port-Hinterland Axis: Second Moment -- From Port to Railways -- From Space to Place: Ecology, Religion, and Politics in the Hinterland -- The Flailing Far-Hinterland -- References -- Chapter 6: Reclaiming the (Hinter)land: Lake Texcoco and the Airport That Never Was -- Machetes Against Airplanes -- The Tezontle Land Reclamation -- Ecological Speculations -- Conclusions.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031242427
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783031242427
Language:
English
Keywords:
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