ABSTRACT
The effects of socioecological disasters influenced by climate change have differentially impacted the Majority World, most especially within disaffected populations who have borne the brunt of these impacts. Such oppressions are exemplified most forcefully in marginalized populations of Cape Town in the Western Cape of South Africa. Cape Town acts as an important case whereby the social, political, ecological, and economic are seen to be complexly intertwined, and where legacies and spatialities of apartheid and settler politics have had an indelible effect on the conditions that have led to increased socioecological disasters and human and environmental suffering. Political ecology offers some important tropes in coming to understand such entanglements, and invasive ecology provides a further entry point to drawing parallels, metaphorically, between ecological devastation and the kinds of devastation borne from violences of apartheid, Euromodernism, colonialism, and their effects.
