Cover -- Series Info -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. A Neoliberal Biopolitics of Water -- 2. A History of the Land-Water Nexus in the Waterberg -- 3. Water Inequality on the Plateau -- 4. Irrigation Farmers: Water as Property -- 5. Private Nature Conservation: Greening Dispossession -- 6. Medupi Power Station: Inequality for Growth -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author
Summary
"The book discusses the reproduction and legitimization of racial inequality in post-apartheid South Africa. Michela Marcatelli unravels this inequality paradox through an ethnography of water in a rural region of the country. She documents how calls to save nature have only deepened and naturalized inequality"-- Provided by publisher