Rock | Water | Life
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Rock | Water | Life

Ecology and Humanities for a Decolonial South Africa

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Rock | Water | Life

Ecology and Humanities for a Decolonial South Africa

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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.

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PART 
I
PASTS 
PRESENT
It 
is 
necessary 
to 
speak 
of 
the
ghost, 
indeed 
to 
the
ghost 
and 
with
it, 
from 
the 
moment 
that 
no 
ethics, 
no 
politics, 
whether 
revolutionary 
or 
not, 
seems 
possible 
and 
thinkable 
and 
just
that 
does 
not 
recognize 
in 
its 
principle 
the 
respect 
for 
those 
others 
who 
are 
no 
longer 
or 
for 
those 
others 
who 
are 
not 
yet 
there
, 
presently 
living, 
whether 
they 
are 
already 
dead 
or 
not 
yet 
born.
—Jacques 
Derrida, 
Specters 
of 
Marx
1.2 
| 
Peter 
Kolbe’s 
map 
of 
Khoena 
settlements, 
German 
edition, 
1719.
ONE 
| 
ROCK
CAPE 
TOWN’S 
NATURES
||Hu-!gais, 
Heerengracht, 
Hoerikwaggo
TM
1.3 
| 
Detail, 
Peter 
Kolbe’s 
depiction 
of 
Khoena 
settlements 
in 
Cape 
town, 
1719.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword | Isabelle Stengers
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction: Different Questions, Different Answers
  6. Part I | Pasts Present
  7. Part II | Present Futures
  8. Part III | Futures Imperfect
  9. Coda Composing Ecopolitics
  10. Notes
  11. Bibliography
  12. Index