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Hecht, Gabrielle, author.

Title Residual governance : how South Africa foretells planetary futures / Gabrielle Hecht.

Publication Info.

Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

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Axe JSTOR Open Ebooks	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	1 online resource (269 pages) : illustrations
	text rdacontent
	computer rdamedia
	online resource rdacarrier
Note	Description based on print version record.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	You can see Apartheid from space -- The hollow rand -- The inside-out rand -- South Africa's Chernobyl? -- Land mines.
Summary	"In Residual Governance, Gabrielle Hecht dives into the wastes of gold and uranium mining in South Africa to explore how communities, experts, and artists fight for infrastructural and environmental justice. Hecht outlines how mining in South Africa is a prime example of what she theorizes as residual governance-the governance of waste and discard, governance that is purposefully inefficient, and governance that treats people and places as waste and wastelands. She centers the voices of people who resist residual governance and the harms of toxic mining waste to highlight how mining's centrality to South African history reveals the links between race, capitalism, the state, and the environment. In this way, Hecht shows how the history of mining in South Africa and the resistance to residual governance and environmental degradation is a planetary story: the underlying logic of residual governance lies at the heart of contemporary global racial capitalism and is a major accelerant of the Anthropocene"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects -- South Africa.
	Mineral industries -- Social aspects -- South Africa.
	Mines and mineral resources -- South Africa.
	Environmental degradation -- Social aspects -- South Africa.
	Environmental justice -- South Africa.
	Mines -- Industrie -- Aspect de l'environnement -- Afrique du Sud.
	Mines -- Industrie -- Aspect social -- Afrique du Sud.
	Environnement -- Dégradation -- Aspect social -- Afrique du Sud.
	Justice environnementale -- Afrique du Sud.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African Studies
	Environmental degradation -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00912893
	Environmental justice. (OCoLC)fst00913104
	Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects. (OCoLC)fst01022250
	Mineral industries -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01022315
	Mines and mineral resources. (OCoLC)fst01022541
	South Africa. (OCoLC)fst01204616
Other Form:	Print version: Hecht, Gabrielle. Residual governance. Durham : Duke University Press, 2023 9781478024941 9781478020288 (DLC) 2022061830 (OCoLC)1369353687
ISBN	9781478027263 (ebook)
	1478027266 (ebook)
	9781478093688 (ebook other)
	1478093684 (ebook other)
	9781478024941 (paperback)
	1478024941 (paperback)
	9781478020288 (hardcover)
	1478020288 (hardcover)
Standard No.	AU@ 000074465444