New Book Published by Meredith McKittrick
14.01.2025
Former Carson Fellow Prof. Dr. Meredith McKittrick has recently published her new book Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid with the University of Chicago Press.
The book is centered on the question how an audacious environmental enginieering plan fanned white settlers' visions for South Africa, stoked mistrust in scientific experts, and gave rise to the Apartheid state. With a detailed look at the intersection of a settler society, climate change, white nationalism, and expert credibility, Green Lands for White Men examines the reverberations of a scheme that ultimately failed but influenced ideas about race and the environment in South Africa for decades to come. (The paragraph is adapted from the University of Chicago Press.)
Our Environment & Society Portal features an excerpt of the first 22 pages of the book in the Books & Profiles section. Feel free to go over to the book profile to have a read. Additionally, the monograph's topic also connects to her former research at the RCC, which she presented at a Lunchtime Colloquium in 2019.
The RCC community would like to warmly congratulate Meredith on her book publication!