Planetary Hinterlands: Extraction, Abandonment and Care (Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society)

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
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		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