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Author Marcatelli, Michela, 1982- author.

Title Naturalizing inequality : water, race, and biopolitics in South Africa / Michela Marcatelli
Published Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource
Series Critical green engagements: investigating the green economy and its alternatives
Critical green engagements.
Contents 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
Subject Race discrimination -- South Africa
Right to water -- Political aspects -- South Africa
Black people -- South Africa -- Social conditions
Water consumption -- Sociological aspects
NATURE -- General.
Black people -- Social conditions
Race discrimination
Race relations
SUBJECT South Africa -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125494
Subject South Africa
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816544295
0816544298