Gabrielle Hecht

Residual Governance

How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures

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Produktbeschreibung

Diving in to the history of South African gold and uranium mining, Gabrielle Hecht shows how forms of state governance and the fight for infrastructural and environmental justice tell a global story of racial capitalism and the Anthropocene.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781478020288
• ISBN-10: 1478020288
• Artikelnr.: 67411993

Autorenporträt

Gabrielle Hecht is Professor of History at Stanford University, author of Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade and The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II, and editor of Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War .

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations  ix
Notes of Usage  xi
Introduction. The Racial Contract is Technopolitical  1
1. You Can See Apartheid from Space  19
2. The Hollow Rand  47
3. The Inside-Out Rand  85
4. South Africa’s Chernobyl?  129
5. Land Mines  163
Conclusion. Living in a Future Way Ahead of Our Time  197
Acknowledgments  209
Notes  215
Bibliography  237
Index  259