Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures

by Gabrielle Hecht

Book Overview

In Residual Governance, Gabrielle Hecht dives into the wastes of gold and uranium mining in South Africa to explore how communities, experts, and artists fight for infrastructural and environmental justice. Hecht outlines how mining in South Africa is a prime example of what she theorizes as residual governance--the governance of waste and discard, governance that is purposefully inefficient, and governance that treats people and places as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478024941
• ISBN13: 9781478024941
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"