Welcome to greater Edendale : histories of environment, health, and gender in an African city / Marc Epprecht.

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Epprecht, Marc [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016.
Description
xii, 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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    • "In the coming decades, the bulk of Africa's anticipated urban population growth will take place in smaller cities. Failure to manage environmental and public health problems in one such aspiring city, Edendale, has fostered severe pollution, seemingly intractable poverty, and gender inequalities that directly fuel one of the worst HIV/AIDS pandemics in the world. A nuanced and timely presentation of South African responses to changing times, conditions, opportunities, and state interventions, Welcome to Greater Edendale reconstructs nearly two centuries of contestation over land, governance, human rights, identity, housing, sanitation, public health, and the meaning of development. Bringing gender and health issues to the foreground, Epprecht reveals many unexpected or forgotten triumphs against environmental injustice, but also unsettling continuities between colonial, apartheid, and post-apartheid policies to spur economic growth. Sheltered from the glare of national media and often overlooked by scholars, smaller cities like Edendale attract political patronage, corruption, and violent protests, while rapid climate change promises to further strain their infrastructure, social services, and public health."-- Provided by publisher.
    • "A challenging, innovative, and thoughtful examination of the history and politics of South Africa, Welcome to Greater Edendale questions the common assumptions embedded in environmental policy, gender relations, democracy, and the neoliberal model of development in which so many African cities are ensnared."-- Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-315) and index.
    Contents
    • Setting the scene
    • Colonial tropes and traps
    • Sketching the environmental history of Msunduzi to 1939
    • The native village debate in Pietermaritzburg, 1848-1925
    • "Hide as much as you can for the sake of good government" : women's health, gender, and local authority in Edendale, 1930-1958
    • KwaPoyinandi and the racialization of space to the 1980s
    • From "demented" to "democracy" : continuities and conflict in the growth model of development from the 1970s to the present.
    Other format(s)
    Issued also in electronic format.
    ISBN
    • 9780773547735 ((cloth))
    • 0773547738 ((cloth))
    • 9780773547742 ((paper))
    • 0773547746 ((paper))
    LCCN
    2016497367
    OCLC
    948339806
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