Gabrielle Hecht ponders waste, world-ending, and toxic things. Her new book, Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures (Duke, 2023), examines the twinned residues of mining and racial capitalism in South Africa’s largest metropolis. The book’s title phrase references a deadly trifecta: the (under)regulation of wastes and discards; governance that is purposefully minimalist and […]