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A formative meeting ground of Khoikhoi herders, Xhosa pastoralists, Dutch trekboers and British settlers, whose descendants continue to live in the area and shape the history and natural world, the Kowie River (Eastern Cape, South Africa) is key to linking the colonial past with current ecological and political reality.

For many people 'nature' means wilderness and wild animals. It is experienced indirectly through magazines and television programmes or through visiting the highly managed environments of national parks. Nature, however, is not external, separate from the world of people - we live in nature and interact with it daily. In this book, Jacklyn Cock describes how these intricate and complex interconnections, seen and unseen, are often ignored. Each of the ten chapters examines an aspect of our relationship with nature: ignoring, understanding, enjoying, imitating, privatising, polluting, abusing, protecting as well as organising for nature. The concluding chapter deals with the growing inequality between the North and the South. The War Against Ourselves compels us to reexamine our relationship with nature, to change our practices and dissolve present binary divisions such as people vs. animals, economic growth vs. environmental protection, 'nature' vs. 'culture'. It demonstrates the need for an inclusive politics which brings together peace, social and environmental justice activists who believe that another world is both possible and necessary.

Beschreibung der Arbeitssituation für Dienstmädchen anhand einer Befragung von 225 Dienstmädchen in der Region Eastern Cape. Historische Entwicklung des Dienstbotenverhältnisses und Analyse der Strukturen, die zu der extremen Ausbeutung von Hauspersonal und der zusätzlichen Diskriminierung des weiblichen (afrikanischen) Hauspersonals geführt haben