The Work of Repair : : Capacity after Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa / / Thomas Cousins.
In the timber plantations in northeastern South Africa, laborers work long hours among tall, swaying lines of eucalypts, on land once theirs. In 2008, at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis, timber corporations distributed hot cooked meals as a nutrition intervention to bolster falling productivity an...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Thinking from Elsewhere
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 11 b/w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Repair and the Question of Capacity
- 1 Labor Power and Amandla
- 2 The Plantation and the Making of a Labor Regime
- 3 The Game of Marriage
- 4 Repair and the Substance of Others
- 5 In the Vicinity of the Social
- Conclusion: The Work of Repair
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index