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Lesley Green examines the interwoven realities of inequality, racism, colonialism, and environmental destruction in South Africa, calling for environmental research and governance to transition to an ecopolitical approach that could address South Africa's history of racial oppression and environmental exploitation.
List of contents
Foreword. Isabelle Stengers xi
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction. Different Questions, Different Answers 1
Part I | Pasts Present 23
1 | Rock. Cape Town's Natures: ||Hu-!gais, Heerengracht, Hoerikwaggo™ 25
2 | Water. Fracking the Karoo: /K¿'ru/k¿-ROO; from a Khoikhoi Word, Possibly Garo—"Desert" 60
Part II | Present Futures 77
3 | Life. #ScienceMustFall and an ABC of Namaqualand Plant Medicine: On Asking Cosmopolitical Qeustions 81
4 | Rock. "Resistance Is Fertile!": On Being Sons and Daughters of Soil 106
Part III | Futures Imperfect 133
5 | Life. What Is It to Be a Baboon When "Baboon!" Is a National Insult? 138
6 | Water. Ocean Regime Shift 171
Coda. Composing Ecopolitics 201
Notes 233
Bibliography 269
Index 291
About the author
Lesley Green is founding director of Environmental Humanities South at the University of Cape Town, editor of
Contested Ecologies: Dialogues in the South on Nature and Knowledge, and coauthor of
Knowing the Day, Knowing the World: Engaging Amerindian Thought in Public Archaeology.
Isabelle Stengers is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Summary
Lesley Green examines the interwoven realities of inequality, racism, colonialism, and environmental destruction in South Africa, calling for environmental research and governance to transition to an ecopolitical approach that could address South Africa's history of racial oppression and environmental exploitation.
