In Rock | Water | Life 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. Green analyzes conflicting accounts of nature in environmental sciences that claim neutrality amid ongoing struggles for land restitution and environmental justice. Offering in-depth studies of environmental conflict in contemporary South Africa, Green addresses the history of contested water access in Cape Town; struggles over natural gas fracking in the Karoo; debates about decolonizing science; the potential for a politics of soil in the call for land restitution; urban baboon management; and the consequences of sending sewage to urban oceans.
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- Contents
- Foreword | Isabelle Stengers
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Different Questions, Different Answers
- Part I | Pasts Present
- 1 | Rock: Cape Town’s Natures: ||Hu-!gais, Heerengracht, HoerikwaggoTM
- 2 | Water: Fracking the Karoo: /kə'ruː/ kə-ROO; from a Khoe Word, Possibly Garo—“Desert"
- Part II | Present Futures
- 3 | Life: #ScienceMustFall and an ABC of Namaqualand Plant Medicine: On Asking Cosmopolitical Questions
- 4 | Rock: “Resistance Is Fertile!”: On Being Sons and Daughters of Soil
- Part III | Futures Imperfect
- 5 | Life: What Is It to Be a Baboon When “Baboon!” Is a National Insult?
- 6 | Water: Ocean Regime Shift
- Coda Composing Ecopolitics
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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