Mobilizing the Day Zero Drought in Cape Town
Crises and Climate Possibilities from Post-Apartheid South Africa
Mobilizing the Day Zero Drought in Cape Town
Crises and Climate Possibilities from Post-Apartheid South Africa
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Description
Drawing on three years of interviews and work with a small-scale farming-activist group in Cape Town, South Africa, this book provides a close look at how working-class activism affected equality of water access during the 2017 – 2019 drought, and in turn sheds new light on efforts across the Global South to advance food sovereignty through agroecology.
This side of the story is completely lacking from other accounts of the drought, which rely too heavily on an administrative or technical perspective. Here Matthew Wingfield shows how a group of environmental activists used the drought to highlight their concerns over unequal access to water and the misuses of water for large companies and commercial farms. In so doing, he provides new, granular insights into the intersecting issues of land access, water access, and other kinds of natural resource use, and thus suggests some new directions applicable throughout the Global South for how working-class activism and small-scale farming can reorganize the connection between water and land in a country characterised by historical dispossession.
Table of Contents
2. The Politics of Evidence in Environmental Activism
3: “Slow Violence” and the Leveraging of the Spectacle
4: Mobilising the Day Zero Crisis and “The Voice of the Aquifer”
5: Activist Alternatives
6: Navigating Space and Place in the PHA
7: The PHA Campaign and Activism in the Climate Crisis
8: Mapping Environmental Activism and its Futures
Product details
| Published | 15 Oct 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 208 |
| ISBN | 9781350576919 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Series | New Writing in Critical Development Studies |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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