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.
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.
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 .
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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
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
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