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Environment, Power, and Justice: Southern African Histories de Graeme Wynn

Environment, Power, and Justice: Southern African Histories: Ecology & History

Editat de Graeme Wynn, Jane Carruthers, Nancy J. Jacobs
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 iul 2022

Găsim în lucrarea Environment, Power, and Justice o resursă academică de nivel licență și master, esențială pentru înțelegerea modului în care comunitățile vulnerabile din Africa de Sud, Lesotho și Zimbabwe s-au mobilizat împotriva structurilor politice care le-au îngrădit dreptul la un mediu sănătos. Notăm cu interes faptul că acest volum, parte din seria Ecology & History, reușește să recalibreze discursul despre justiția de mediu, care a fost mult timp dominat de exemple și cadre teoretice nord-americane. Prin studii de caz specifice, editorii Graeme Wynn, Jane Carruthers și Nancy J. Jacobs analizează tranziția de la perioada colonială la cea postapartheid, oferind o perspectivă istorică asupra inechității.

Putem afirma că forța acestui volum rezidă în abordarea multidisciplinară; capitolele nu se limitează la ecologie, ci integrează analize despre securitate alimentară, politici agricole și sănătate publică. Spre deosebire de alte lucrări care tratează subiectul dintr-o perspectivă pur politică, acest text introduce actori și gânditori care nu au fost anterior asociați cu mișcarea pentru justiție de mediu. Cartea reprezintă o alternativă valoroasă la Environmental Justice in South Africa de David A. McDonald pentru cursurile de geografie istorică sau studii africane, având avantajul unei acoperiri geografice mai largi și a unei analize temporale care se întinde pe mai multe epoci politice.

În contextul operei editorului coordonator, Graeme Wynn, această lucrare continuă preocupările sale pentru geografia istorică și interacțiunea dintre cultură, tehnologie și ecologie, teme explorate anterior în volume precum Canada and Arctic North America. Totuși, Environment, Power, and Justice mută focarul de la spațiul nord-american către Sudul Global, oferind o critică necesară a modului în care puterea politică modelează peisajul natural și accesul la resurse.

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ISBN-13: 9780821424841
ISBN-10: 082142484X
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: 20
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Ohio University Press
Colecția Ohio University Press
Seria Ecology & History

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este recomandată studenților și cercetătorilor în istorie, științe politice și ecologie umană care doresc să înțeleagă rădăcinile inechității de mediu în Africa Australă. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă documentată asupra modului în care activismul local a evoluat din perioada colonială până astăzi, oferind un contra-argument solid față de teoriile eurocentrice ale sustenabilității. Este o lectură fundamentală pentru înțelegerea justiției sociale prin lentila geografiei istorice.

Despre autor

Graeme Wynn este un distins profesor de geografie istorică la University of British Columbia și editor al publicației „BC Studies”. Recunoscut la nivel internațional pentru contribuțiile sale, este membru al Societății Regale din Canada (Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada). Expertiza sa se concentrează pe istoria mediului și pe modul în care societățile umane transformă și sunt transformate de ecosistemele lor. În Environment, Power, and Justice, Wynn își folosește rigoarea academică pentru a coordona o analiză complexă a raporturilor de putere din Africa de Sud, extinzând aria cercetărilor sale dincolo de regiunea Americii de Nord.

Descriere scurtă

Spanning the colonial, postcolonial, and postapartheid eras, these historical and locally specific case studies analyze and engage vernacular, activist, and scholarly efforts to mitigate social-environmental inequity.
This book highlights the ways poor and vulnerable people in South Africa, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe have mobilized against the structural and political forces that deny them a healthy and sustainable environment. Spanning the colonial, postcolonial, and postapartheid eras, these studies engage vernacular, activist, and scholarly efforts to mitigate social-environmental inequity. Some chapters track the genealogies of contemporary activism, while others introduce positions, actors, and thinkers not previously identified with environmental justice. Addressing health, economic opportunity, agricultural policy, and food security, the chapters in this book explore a range of issues and ways of thinking about harm to people and their ecologies.
Because environmental justice is often understood as a contemporary phenomenon framed around North American examples, these fresh case studies will enrich both southern African history and global environmental studies. Environment, Power, and Justice expands conceptions of environmental justice and reveals discourses and dynamics that advance both scholarship and social change.
Contributors:
  • Christopher Conz
  • Marc Epprecht
  • Mary Galvin
  • Sarah Ives
  • Admire Mseba
  • Muchaparara Musemwa
  • Matthew A. Schnurr
  • Cherryl Walker

Recenzii

“This is an excellent essay collection breaking new ground on environmental histories. Its aim of illuminating how environment, power, and justice are imbricated in Southern Africa builds on old academic foci … but speaks to new ecological issues. Together the chapters in this volume span African thought on ecology in the context of colonialism, water injustice, land dispossession, GMOs, rethinking invasive species and racialized urban development. It adds in a sophisticated way to the literature on environmental justice.”—Vishwas Satgar, associate professor of international relations, University of Witwatersrand

“Wynn, Jacobs, and Carruthers have carefully brought together a dozen scholars of distinct disciplines and diasporas to offer wisdom and insight into environmental justice and power in southern Africa. In offering specificity and precision as to the ways environmental harm and human inequality vary but conjoin, the volume collectively frames contemporary discussions of justice in concepts of harm from the colonial, postcolonial, and postapartheid pasts. This lively conversation not only gives new perspectives on the contingencies of the past, it opens up possibilities for the future.”—Emily Wakild, coeditor of The Nature State: Rethinking the History of Conservation

“This is a remarkable volume that offers important new insights into ways in which environmental justice and injustice play out in contemporary and historical Southern Africa. The case studies demonstrate strikingly that environmental injustice varies greatly across time and space and, to paraphrase the editors, Rachel Carson is indeed not the beginning of the southern African ‘story’ of fighting for environmental justice. This is a must-read volume for everyone interested in environmental justice, not only in the Southern African context, but also on the African continent and globally.”—Phia Steyn, University of Stirling lecturer in African environmental history

“A critical text on postcolonial environmental humanities scholarship and presents environmental justice as a ‘traveling’ multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary concept [that is] useful for scholars in many fields, such as environmental historians, political scientists, sociologists, policy planners, activists, and environmental scientists.”—H-Environment, H-Net Reviews

Notă biografică

Graeme Wynn is a historical geographer and environmental historian who has published extensively on Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa. Through forty years at the University of British Columbia, he has been an administrative and organizational leader, a long-serving journal editor, and the editor of the Nature | History | Society series from the University of British Columbia Press.
Jane Carruthers is well known for her expertise in environmental history in southern Africa. The author of numerous books, chapters, and academic journal articles, she has also been associated with many international organizations involved in environmental history and related scholarship.
Nancy J. Jacobs is a historian of the environment, colonial Africa, and southern Africa. The integration of social and environmental history has been her longstanding interest. Her current book project, The Global Grey Parrot, is a history of a social, intelligent, and endangered African animal that now lives in captivity around the world.

Descriere

With appreciation for both regional and chronological variation, this volume’s contributors track the global concept of environmental justice to analyze its influence in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Lesotho and to expand popular understandings of social-environmental harm.