Ebook: The Work of Repair: Capacity after Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa

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.

Engages critical debates about plantations, labor, and the end of employment through a detailed ethnographic and historiographical account.