Just sustainabilities: The case of eco-estates in South Africa

The enclaved body: Crises of personhood and the embodied geographies of urban gating

“…These estates assure freedom from both botanical and human ‘invasives’…[and] produce landscapes…that claim to protect two different sets of vulnerable assets,” native ecologies and the naturalness of whiteness within them. They at the same time deepen environmental damage for those left outside through their intense resource demands (Mistry and Procter, 2022).…”

“…Despite diverse sociological and cultural forms, the purified enclave represents one solution to the at-risk environmental subject, the organism adrift in the Anthropocene city characterized by penetrating airs, enervating heat, and generalized environmental risk. This is reflected in work exploring the beautified greenery, manicured gardens, and horticultural embellishments within luxury zones, as well as wider scholarship on “bourgeois environmental” anxieties and their advancement of privatized natures (Baviskar, 2020; Mistry and Spocter, 2022).…”