Environment, Power, and Justice
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Environment, Power, and Justice

Southern African Histories

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Environment, Power, and Justice

Southern African Histories

About this book

Spanning the colonial, postcolonial, and postapartheid eras, these historical and locally specific case studies analyze and engage vernacular, activist, and scholarly efforts to mitigate social-environmental inequity.

This book highlights the ways poor and vulnerable people in South Africa, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe have mobilized against the structural and political forces that deny them a healthy and sustainable environment. Spanning the colonial, postcolonial, and postapartheid eras, these studies engage vernacular, activist, and scholarly efforts to mitigate social-environmental inequity. Some chapters track the genealogies of contemporary activism, while others introduce positions, actors, and thinkers not previously identified with environmental justice. Addressing health, economic opportunity, agricultural policy, and food security, the chapters in this book explore a range of issues and ways of thinking about harm to people and their ecologies.

Because environmental justice is often understood as a contemporary phenomenon framed around North American examples, these fresh case studies will enrich both southern African history and global environmental studies. Environment, Power, and Justice expands conceptions of environmental justice and reveals discourses and dynamics that advance both scholarship and social change.

Contributors:

  • Christopher Conz
  • Marc Epprecht
  • Mary Galvin
  • Sarah Ives
  • Admire Mseba
  • Muchaparara Musemwa
  • Matthew A. Schnurr
  • Cherryl Walker

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Yes, you can access Environment, Power, and Justice by Graeme Wynn, Jane Carruthers, Nancy J. Jacobs, Graeme Wynn,Jane Carruthers,Nancy J. Jacobs in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & African History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction: Historicizing Environmental Justice in Southern Africa
  9. Part 1: New Histories of Postapartheid Environmental Justice
  10. Part 2: Decolonial Histories of Environmental Justice in Southern Africa
  11. Afterword: Of Crocodiles, Chameleons, and the Burden of History
  12. Selected Bibliography
  13. Contributors
  14. Index