Welcome to Greater Edendale: Histories of Environment, Health, and Gender in an African City 9780773599659

A mid-sized South African city’s struggle against its legacies of environmental injustice. A mid-sized South African c

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Welcome to Greater Edendale: Histories of Environment, Health, and Gender in an African City
9780773599659

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Marc Epprecht

Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Illustrations
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
A Note on Terminology
1 Setting the Scene
2 Colonial Tropes and Traps
3 Sketching the Environmental History of Msunduzi to 1939
4 The Native Village Debate in Pietermaritzburg, 1848–1925
5 “Hide as Much as You Can for the Sake of Good Government”: Women’s Health, Gender, and Local Authority in Edendale, 1930–1958
6 KwaPoyinandi and the Racialization of Space to the 1980s
7 From “Demented” to “Democracy”: Continuities and Conflict in the Growth Model of Development from the 1970s to the Present
Notes
A Note on Sources
References
Index
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