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Series in Ecology and History
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Spanning the colonial, postcolonial, and postapartheid eras, these historical and locally specific case studies analyze and engage vernacular, activist, and scholarly efforts to mitigate social-environmental inequity.
This book highlights the ways poor and vulnerable people in South Africa, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe have mobilized against the structural and political forces that deny them a healthy and sustainable environment. Spanning the colonial, postcolonial, and postapartheid eras, these studies engage vernacular, activist, and scholarly efforts to mitigate social-environmental inequity. Some chapters track the genealogies of contemporary activism, while others introduce positions, actors, and thinkers not previously identified with environmental justice. Addressing health, economic opportunity, agricultural policy, and food security, the chapters in this book explore a range of issues and ways of thinking about harm to people and their ecologies.
Because environmental justice is often understood as a contemporary phenomenon framed around North American examples, these fresh case studies will enrich both southern African history and global environmental studies. Environment, Power, and Justice expands conceptions of environmental justice and reveals discourses and dynamics that advance both scholarship and social change.
Contributors:
Christopher Conz
Marc Epprecht
Mary Galvin
Sarah Ives
Admire Mseba
Muchaparara Musemwa
Matthew A. Schnurr
Cherryl Walker
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Environment, Power, and Justice © 2022 by Ohio University Press is licensed under Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Language
eng
ISBN
9780821447772
Publication Date
7-26-2022
Publisher
Ohio University Press
City
Athens
Keywords
ecology, apartheid, Vernacular Ecologies, Decolonialism, Dispossession, Graeme Wynn, Jane Carruthers, Nancy Jacobs
Disciplines
African History | African Studies | Environmental Studies | Human Ecology | Nature and Society Relations | Physical and Environmental Geography | Political Science
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Wynn, Graeme; Carruthers, Jane; and Jacobs, Nancy J., "Environment, Power, and Justice : Southern African Histories" (2022). Ohio University Press Open Access Books. 67.
https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/67
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