Research Catalog

Title

Environment, power, and justice : Southern African histories / edited by Graeme Wynn, Jane Carruthers and Nancy J. Jacobs.

Publication

Athens : Ohio University Press, [2022]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wynn, Graeme, 1946-
• Carruthers, Jane
• Jacobs, Nancy Joy

Description

xii, 354 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"With appreciation for both regional and chronological variation, this volume's contributors track the global concept of environmental justice to analyze its influence in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Lesotho and to expand popular understandings of social-environmental harm"--

Series Statement

Ohio University Press series in ecology and history

Uniform Title

Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.

Subject

• Environmental justice > Africa, Southern
• Environmental policy > Africa, Southern
• Environmental justice
• Environmental policy
• Southern Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-341) and index.

Contents

Introduction. Historicising Environmental Justice in Southern Africa / Jane Carruthers, Nancy J. Jacobs, and Graeme Wynn -- Water and Sanitation Woes, Community Despondency, and Empty Democracy in South Africa / Mary Galvin -- Out of Bounds: Environmental Justice and the Square Kilometre Array Radio Telescope in South Africa's Northern Cape Karoo / Cherryl Walker -- Social Resistance, Genetically Modified Maize, and Environmental Justice in South Africa / Matthew A. Schnurr -- The Politics of Blurry Lines in South Africa: From Apartheid to the Anthropocene / Sarah Ives -- Environmental Phenomena, Colonial Injustices and Vernacular Discourse in Early Colonial Zimbabwe, 1895-c.1935 / Admire Mseba -- Stick to Thy Hillock? James Machobane and the Problem of Agroecology in Lesotho / Christopher Conz -- Land, Water and Race: In Search of Truth and the Search for Environmental Justice in Southern Rhodesia / Muchaparara Musemwa -- Envisioning Environmental Justice in a Secondary South African City: The Edendale History Project / Marc Epprecht -- Afterword. Of Crocodiles, Chameleons, and the Burden of History: Environment, Power, and Justice in Southern Africa / Graeme Wynn.

Call Number

ReCAP 23-3429

ISBN

• 9780821424841
• 082142484X

LCCN

2021050772

OCLC

1274198339

Title

Environment, power, and justice : Southern African histories / edited by Graeme Wynn, Jane Carruthers and Nancy J. Jacobs.

Publisher

Athens : Ohio University Press, [2022]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Ohio University Press series in ecology and history

Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-341) and index.

Added Author

Wynn, Graeme, 1946- editor.

Carruthers, Jane, editor.

Jacobs, Nancy Joy, editor.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 23-3429