Thomas Cousins

The Work of Repair

Capacity After Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

The Work of Repair is an ethnographic examination of the intimate relationships between laborers in the timber plantations of postapartheid South Africa, in the wake of the HIV crisis and the contentious politics of nutrition. It explores how capacity is augmented as the wounds of history are embodied and modulated.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9781531503536
• ISBN-10: 1531503535
• Artikelnr.: 65595685

Autorenporträt

Thomas Cousins is Clarendon-Lienhardt Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology of Africa at the University of Oxford, and Fellow, St Hugh's College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Repair and the Question of Capacity 1
1 Labor Power and Amandla 37
2 The Plantation and the Making of a Labor Regime 58
3 The Game of Marriage 88
4 Repair and the Substance of Others 115
5 In the Vicinity of the Social 144
Conclusion: The Work of Repair 181
Acknowledgments 197
Notes 201
Bibliography 277
Index 319