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.
General
| Imprint: |
Duke University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
November 2023 |
| First published: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Gabrielle Hecht
|
| Dimensions: |
228 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
288 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4780-2494-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-4780-2494-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781478024941 |
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