ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates in a more detailed review of the literature, environmental justice scholarship tends to begin with environmental justice theory and show the ways in which the South African cases exemplify or are exception to established explanations. The work has encouraged productive reframings to make environmental justice more relevant to South Africa, and suggests that environmental justice as an analytical frame has relevance. The chapter focuses on articulating the process of juxtaposition, unease, unlearning and learning anew as well as the components of critique and line of argument developed in each case. It discusses specific arguments about what might beneficially travel and what might be provincialized, and how this enables new insights into what cities are, how they operate and what residents aspire for them to become. Intersections with “robots” in South African cities, as in many other parts of the world, are often busy places where people seek donations from those in the cars passing by.
