ISBN:
9781478027263
,
1478027266
,
9781478093688
,
1478093684
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (269 pages)
,
illustrations
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Hecht, Gabrielle Residual governance
Keywords:
Mineral industries Environmental aspects
;
Mineral industries Social aspects
;
Mines and mineral resources
;
Environmental degradation Social aspects
;
Environmental justice
;
Mines - Industrie - Aspect de l'environnement - Afrique du Sud
;
Mines - Industrie - Aspect social - Afrique du Sud
;
Environnement - Dégradation - Aspect social - Afrique du Sud
;
Justice environnementale - Afrique du Sud
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African Studies
Abstract:
"In Residual Governance, Gabrielle Hecht dives into the wastes of gold and uranium mining in South Africa to explore how communities, experts, and artists fight for infrastructural and environmental justice. Hecht outlines how mining in South Africa is a prime example of what she theorizes as residual governance-the governance of waste and discard, governance that is purposefully inefficient, and governance that treats people and places as waste and wastelands. She centers the voices of people who resist residual governance and the harms of toxic mining waste to highlight how mining's centrality to South African history reveals the links between race, capitalism, the state, and the environment. In this way, Hecht shows how the history of mining in South Africa and the resistance to residual governance and environmental degradation is a planetary story: the underlying logic of residual governance lies at the heart of contemporary global racial capitalism and is a major accelerant of the Anthropocene"--
Description / Table of Contents:
You can see Apartheid from space -- The hollow rand -- The inside-out rand -- South Africa's Chernobyl? -- Land mines.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
