In the coming decades, the bulk of Africa's anticipated urban
population growth will take place in smaller cities. Failure to
manage environmental and public health problems in one such
aspiring city, Edendale, has fostered severe pollution, seemingly
intractable poverty, and gender inequalities that directly fuel one
of the worst HIV/AIDS pandemics in the world. A nuanced and timely
presentation of South African responses to changing times,
conditions, opportunities, and state interventions, Welcome to
Greater Edendale reconstructs nearly two centuries of contestation
over land, governance, human rights, identity, housing, sanitation,
public health, and the meaning of development. Bringing gender and
health issues to the foreground, Marc Epprecht reveals many
unexpected or forgotten triumphs against environmental injustice,
but also unsettling continuities between colonial, apartheid, and
post-apartheid policies to spur economic growth. Sheltered from the
glare of national media and often overlooked by scholars, smaller
cities like Edendale attract political patronage, corruption, and
violent protests, while rapid climate change promises to further
strain their infrastructure, social services, and public health. A
challenging, innovative, and thoughtful examination of the history
and politics of South Africa, Welcome to Greater Edendale questions
the common assumptions embedded in environmental policy, gender
relations, democracy, and the neoliberal model of development in
which so many African cities are ensnared.
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