Naturalizing Inequality: Water, Race, and Biopolitics in South Africa

by Michela Marcatelli

More than twenty-five years after the end of apartheid, water access remains a striking reminder of racial inequality in South Africa. This book compellingly argues that in the post-apartheid period inequality has not only been continuously reproduced but also legitimized.

Michela Marcatelli unravels this inequality paradox through an ethnography of water in a rural region of the country. The Waterberg Plateau is a space where agriculture,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816539502
• ISBN13: 9780816539505
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.1"