Planetary Hinterlands Extraction, Abandonment and Care /

Planetary Hinterlands Extraction, Abandonment and Care /

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This open access book considers the concept of the hinterland as a crucial tool for understanding the global and planetary present as a time defined by the lasting legacies of colonialism, increasing labor precarity under late capitalist regimes, and looming climate disasters. Traditionally seen to...

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Other Authors: Gupta, Pamila (Editor), Nuttall, Sarah (Editor), Peeren, Esther (Editor), Stuit, Hanneke (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
Edition:1st ed. 2024.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society,
Subjects:
Culture > Study and teaching.
Globalization.
Science > Social aspects.
Urban ecology (Biology).
Bioclimatology.
Cultural Studies.
Posthumanism.
Urban Ecology.
Climate Change Ecology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Conceptualizing Hinterlands
  • PART I Materialities: Extraction, Logistics
  • Chapter 2. Belly of the World: Toxicity, Innocence, and Indigestibility in Plastic China
  • Chapter 3. Cultivating Hinterland: What Lies Behind Agnes Denes's Wheatfield?
  • Chapter 4. Dividing, Connecting, and Complicating the Hinterland: The Lower Orange River/ !Garib
  • Chapter 5. The Coast Bouleverses at Kolkata
  • Chapter 6. Reclaiming the (Hinter)land: Lake Texcoco and the Airport That Never Was
  • Chapter 7. Hinterlands of Extraction, Climate Change, and South African Energy Companies
  • PART II Affectivities: Abandonment and Dreaming
  • Chapter 8."Washed with Sun": Landscaping South Africa's Hinterlands.-Chapter 9. Swamp Things: The Wetland Roots of American Authoritarianism
  • Chapter 10. Ambivalence and Resistance in Contemporary Imaginations of US Capitalist Hinterlands
  • Chapter 11. An Arc Beyond Stasis: Activism in the Hinterland-facing Fictions of Alex La Guma and Zoë Wicomb
  • Chapter 12. "Reservoirs of the Subconscious of a People": The Local, National, and Global Resonances of a Lost Hinterland
  • Chapter 13. Biophilia in the Hinterland: Symbiotic Affects in Robinson in Ruins
  • PART III Ecologies: Care, Transformation
  • Chapter 14. The Hinterland at Sea
  • Chapter 15. Wet and Dry Hinterlands: Pluviality and Drought in J. M. Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K.-Chapter 16. The Animal Hinterland in Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's My Heavenly Favorite
  • Chapter 17. Compound Focalization in the Literary Hinterlands
  • Chapter 18. Behind Johannesburg: Plants and Possible Futures in an Industrialized Hinterland
  • Chapter 19. Hinterland, Underground.

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