Planetary Hinterlands : : Extraction, Abandonment and Care.
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| Superior document: | Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society Series |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2024. ©2024. |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
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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.