Naturalizing inequality : water, race, and biopolitics in South Africa /

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"The book discusses the reproduction and legitimization of racial inequality in post-apartheid South Africa. Michela Marcatelli unravels this inequality paradox through an ethnography of water in a rural region of the country. She documents how calls to save nature have only deepened and natura...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Marcatelli, Michela, 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2021.
Series:Critical green engagements.
Subjects:
Race discrimination > South Africa.
Right to water > Political aspects > South Africa.
Black people > South Africa > Social conditions.
Water consumption > Sociological aspects.
Discrimination raciale > Afrique du Sud.
Droit à l'eau > Aspect politique > Afrique du Sud.
Eau > Consommation > Aspect sociologique.
Personnes noires > Afrique du Sud > Conditions sociales.
NATURE > General.
Black people > Social conditions
Race discrimination
Race relations
South Africa > Race relations.
Afrique du Sud > Relations raciales.
South Africa
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Series Info
  • Title page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. A Neoliberal Biopolitics of Water
  • 2. A History of the Land-Water Nexus in the Waterberg
  • 3. Water Inequality on the Plateau
  • 4. Irrigation Farmers: Water as Property
  • 5. Private Nature Conservation: Greening Dispossession
  • 6. Medupi Power Station: Inequality for Growth
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author

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