Rock | Water | Life

Lesley Green

Published by Duke University Press 2020

Rock | Water | Life

Ecology and Humanities for a Decolonial South Africa

Lesley Green

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478004615

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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.

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Lesley Green is founding director of Environmental Humanities South at the University of Cape Town, editor of Contested Ecologies: Dialogues in the South on Nature and Knowledge, and coauthor of Knowing the Day, Knowing the World: Engaging Amerindian Thought in Public Archaeology.

Isabelle Stengers is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

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-- Donna J. Haraway

-- Ghassan Hage, author of Is Racism an Environmental Threat?

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Foreword Isabelle Stenges Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Introduction. Different Questions, Different Answers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I / Pasts Present
1. Rock Cape Town’s Natures: / Hu-! gais, Heerengracht, Hoerikwaggo^TM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2. Water Fracking the Karoo: /kəˈruː/ kə-ROO; from a Khoe Word, Possibly Garo—“ Desert” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
Part II / Present Futures
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
3 / Life #ScienceMustFall and an ABC of Namaqualand Plant Medicine: On Asking Cosmopolitical Questions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
4 / Rock “Resistance Is Fertile!”: On Being Sons and Daughters of Soil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
Part III / Futures Imperfect
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
5. Life What Is It to Be a Baboon When “Baboon!” Is a National Insult? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
6 / Water Ocean Regime Shift Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Coda. Composing Ecopolitics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
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- Main content: 320
Keywords: decolonized science

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Published: March 20, 2020
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