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Author:

Marcatelli, Michela, 1982- author.

Title:

Naturalizing inequality : water, race, and biopolitics in South Africa / Michela Marcatelli.

Publisher:

The University of Arizona Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xiv, 171 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Race discrimination--South Africa.
Right to water--Political aspects--South Africa.
Black people--South Africa--Social conditions.
Water consumption--Sociological aspects.
South Africa--Race relations.
Blacks--Social conditions.
Race discrimination.
Race relations.
South Africa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

Critical green engagements : investigating the green economy and its alternatives

ISBN:

0816539502
9780816539505

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1245472026

LCCN:

2021012136

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)