Jackie Dugard, Xolobeni’s Struggle Against Patriracial-Colonocapitalist Mining in South Africa: A Counterpoint to Climate Catastrophe?, 41 Wis. Int'l L.J. 551 (2024).
In this Article, I pursue the notion of South Africa as an avatar for the intensification of the global economic, social, and environmental (dis)order—which I refer to here as “patriracial-colonocapitalism” (to capture the linked systems of gender, racial, economic, and environmental oppression)—in the context of climate change. I do so by focusing on the Xolobeni Indigenous struggle (including successful litigation) against mining, which is the historical core of South Africa’s system of patriracialcolonocapitalism. Through this analysis, I examine the potential for such resistance to offer a transformative counterpoint to the contemporary climate emergency that involves both destruction of the current unsustainable system and creation of an alternative socially and regenerative order that has the potential to prevent climate extinction.
