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Title Environment, power, and justice : southern African histories / edited by Graeme Wynn, Jane Carruthers, and Nancy J. Jacobs
Published Athens : Ohio University Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 354 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Ohio University Press series in ecology and history
Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.
Contents Introduction. Historicising Environmental Justice in Southern Africa / Jane Carruthers, Nancy J. Jacobs, and Graeme Wynn -- Water and Sanitation Woes, Community Despondency, and Empty Democracy in South Africa / Mary Galvin -- Out of Bounds: Environmental Justice and the Square Kilometre Array Radio Telescope in South Africa's Northern Cape Karoo / Cherryl Walker -- Social Resistance, Genetically Modified Maize, and Environmental Justice in South Africa / Matthew A. Schnurr -- The Politics of Blurry Lines in South Africa: From Apartheid to the Anthropocene / Sarah Ives -- Environmental Phenomena, Colonial Injustices and Vernacular Discourse in Early Colonial Zimbabwe, 1895-c.1935 / Admire Mseba -- Stick to Thy Hillock? James Machobane and the Problem of Agroecology in Lesotho / Christopher Conz -- Land, Water and Race: In Search of Truth and the Search for Environmental Justice in Southern Rhodesia / Muchaparara Musemwa -- Envisioning Environmental Justice in a Secondary South African City: The Edendale History Project / Marc Epprecht -- Afterword. Of Crocodiles, Chameleons, and the Burden of History: Environment, Power, and Justice in Southern Africa / Graeme Wynn
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 29, 2022)
Subject Environmental justice -- Africa, Southern
Environmental policy -- Africa, Southern
Environmental justice
Environmental policy
Southern Africa
Form Electronic book
Author Wynn, Graeme, 1946- editor.
Carruthers, Jane, editor.
Jacobs, Nancy Joy, editor.
LC no. 2021050773
ISBN 9780821447772
0821447777