Rock | Water | Life

Ecology and Humanities for a Decolonial South Africa

Lesley Green (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2020
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0369-4 (ISBN)

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In Rock | Water | Life Lesley Green examines the interwoven realities of inequality, racism, colonialism, and environmental destruction in South Africa, calling for environmental research and governance to transition to an ecopolitical approach that could address South Africa's history of racial oppression and environmental exploitation. Green analyzes conflicting accounts of nature in environmental sciences that claim neutrality amid ongoing struggles for land restitution and environmental justice. Offering in-depth studies of environmental conflict in contemporary South Africa, Green addresses the history of contested water access in Cape Town; struggles over natural gas fracking in the Karoo; debates about decolonizing science; the potential for a politics of soil in the call for land restitution; urban baboon management; and the consequences of sending sewage to urban oceans.

Lesley Green is founding director of Environmental Humanities South at the University of Cape Town, editor of Contested Ecologies: Dialogues in the South on Nature and Knowledge, and coauthor of Knowing the Day, Knowing the World: Engaging Amerindian Thought in Public Archaeology. Isabelle Stengers is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Foreword. Isabelle Stengers xi
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction. Different Questions, Different Answers 1
Part I | Pasts Present 23
1 | Rock. Cape Town's Natures: ||Hu-!gais, Heerengracht, Hoerikwaggo™ 25
2 | Water. Fracking the Karoo: /Kə'ru/kə-ROO; from a Khoikhoi Word, Possibly Garo—"Desert" 60
Part II | Present Futures 77
3 | Life. #ScienceMustFall and an ABC of Namaqualand Plant Medicine: On Asking Cosmopolitical Qeustions 81
4 | Rock. "Resistance Is Fertile!": On Being Sons and Daughters of Soil 106
Part III | Futures Imperfect 133
5 | Life. What Is It to Be a Baboon When "Baboon!" Is a National Insult? 138
6 | Water. Ocean Regime Shift 171
Coda. Composing Ecopolitics 201
Notes 233
Bibliography 269
Index 291

Erscheinungsdatum	02.03.2020
Zusatzinfo	26 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-0369-3 / 1478003693
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0369-4 / 9781478003694
Zustand	Neuware