Planetary Hinterlands : : Extraction, Abandonment and Care.

• Superior document: Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society Series
• Author: Gupta, Pamila.
• TeilnehmendeR: Nuttall, Sarah.; Peeren, Esther.; Stuit, Hanneke.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (342 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgment -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Part I: Materialities: Extraction, Logistics -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Conceptualizing Hinterlands -- Defining the Hinterland -- Colonial and Postcolonial Hinterlands -- Contemporary Hinterlands -- Looking from the Hinterland -- Part I-Materialities: Extraction, Logistics -- Part II-Affectivities: Abandonment, Dreaming -- Part III-Ecologies: Care, Transformation -- References -- Chapter 2: Belly of the World: Toxicity, Innocence, and Indigestibility in Plastic China -- Eating Time: Plastics Between Post/socialism and Global Capitalism -- The Ends of Life: Toxicity and Inertia -- Innocence and the Toxic Sublime -- Waste: Between Consubstantiation and Localization -- Closing -- References -- Chapter 3: Cultivating Hinterland: What Lies Behind Agnes Denes' Wheatfield? -- Planting Ideas -- Unearthing Extractivism -- Growing Complications -- Harvesting Complexity -- References -- Chapter 4: Dividing, Connecting, and Complicating the Hinterland: The Lower !Garib/Orange River -- Understanding Hinterlands from a Hinterland -- Shifting Hinterlands and Colonial Borders -- Farming and Agriculture: A Rural Economy or a Colonial Hinterland? -- Spaces of Inclusion and Exclusion: A Mining Hinterland? -- New Dynamics Along the Lower !Garib -- References -- Chapter 5: The Coast Bouleverses at Kolkata -- Seeing Kolkata's Hinterland -- The Old Hinterland -- British Port-Hinterland Axis: First Moment -- British Port-Hinterland Axis: Second Moment -- From Port to Railways -- From Space to Place: Ecology, Religion, and Politics in the Hinterland -- The Flailing Far-Hinterland -- References -- Chapter 6: Reclaiming the (Hinter)land: Lake Texcoco and the Airport That Never Was -- Machetes Against Airplanes -- The Tezontle Land Reclamation -- Ecological Speculations -- Conclusions.

References -- Chapter 7: Hinterlands of Extraction, Climate Change, and South African Energy Companies -- Introduction: Cecil John Rhodes in the Company Gardens -- The Hinterland of COP26 -- The Relationship Between Imperialism and Climate Change: A Hermeneutic Injustice? -- South African Corporations in the Hinterland -- Powerplays in Climate Action -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Affectivities: Abandonment, Dreaming -- Chapter 8: "Washed with Sun": Landscaping South Africa's Hinterlands -- Prelude -- Part I: Introduction -- Part II: Landscaping South Africa-of farm towns and townships -- Rob Nixon: of prickly pears and aloes, feathers and fantasies -- Jacob Dlamini: of fragments and flowers, rats and radio waves -- Part III: Entangled Hinterscapes -- Part IV: By way of Conclusion, photographing an upside-down mannequin -- References -- Chapter 9: Swamp Things: The Wetland Roots of American Authoritarianism -- The Politics of Hinterland Extraction -- Oiling the Jim Crow Machine, Mainstreaming the Hinterland -- The Hinterland as Harbinger -- References -- Chapter 10: Ambivalence and Resistance in Contemporary Imaginations of US Capitalist Hinterlands -- Vacating the Far Hinterland of Political Potential -- Nomadland: Resistance, Ambivalence, and Settler Colonial Desire -- References -- Chapter 11: An Arc Beyond Stasis: Activism in the Hinterland-facing Fictions of Alex La Guma and Zoë Wicomb -- References -- Chapter 12: "Reservoirs of the Subconscious of a People": The Local, National, and Global Resonances of a Lost Hinterland -- Wales as a Geographic Hinterland -- Capel Celyn as Drowned Postcolonial Haunted Hinterland -- The Wales / Patagonia Exiled Hinterland -- References -- Chapter 13: Biophilia in the Hinterland: Symbiotic Affects in Robinson in Ruins -- Introduction: Nonhumans in the Hinterland.

Marginal in Plain Sight: Lichens at the Edge -- Biophilia in the Far Hinterland: Flowers and GPSS Markers -- Enclosures and Land Affects -- Conclusion: Staying with the Far Hinterland -- References -- Part III: Ecologies: Care, Transformation -- Chapter 14: The Hinterland at Sea -- References -- Chapter 15: Wet and Dry Hinterlands: Pluviality and Drought in J. M. Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- References -- Chapter 16: The Animal Hinterland in Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's My Heavenly Favorite -- Introduction -- Becoming Animal on the Farm -- Becoming Nocturnal, Playing Death -- The Animals of the Hinterland -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 17: Compound Focalization in the Literary Hinterlands -- References -- Chapter 18: Behind Johannesburg: Plants and Possible Futures in an Industrialized Hinterland -- Cultivation -- Global Hinterland -- Invasive Species: Blackjack -- Pioneer's Plants: Maize -- Future Nature -- References -- Chapter 19: Hinterland, Underground -- Underground Frontiers -- Mining the Soil -- Matter Out of Place -- References -- Index.