Cousins The Work of Repair

Capacity after Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5315-0356-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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Reihe: Thinking from Elsewhere

The Work of Repair is an ethnographic examination of the intimate relationships between laborers in the timber plantations of postapartheid South Africa, in the wake of the HIV crisis and the contentious politics of nutrition. It explores how capacity is augmented as the wounds of history are embodied and modulated.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cousins, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Gewerkschaften, Industrielle Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Repair and the Question of Capacity 1

1 Labor Power and Amandla 37

2 The Plantation and the Making of a Labor Regime 58

3 The Game of Marriage 88

4 Repair and the Substance of Others 115

5 In the Vicinity of the Social 144

Conclusion: The Work of Repair 181

Acknowledgments 197

Notes 201

Bibliography 277

Index 319

Über Autor(innen)

Cousins Thomas:
Thomas Cousins is Clarendon-Lienhardt Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology of Africa at the University of Oxford, and Fellow, St Hugh’s College.Thomas Cousins is Clarendon-Lienhardt Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology of Africa at the University of Oxford, and Fellow, St Hugh’s College.