Just out and open access: The wonderful volume on planetary hinterlands: Gupta, Pamila; Nuttall, Sarah; Peeren, Esther and Stuit, Hanneke (eds.). Planetary Hinterlands: Extraction, Abandonment and Care. Palgrave Macmillan. In our chapter Dividing, Connecting and Complicating the Hinterland. The Lower !Garib / Orange River Giorgio Miescher and I discuss the Lower Orange River/!Garib area’s history from the eighteenth century to the present as a region that has been variously experienced as central and peripheral in relation to multiple, shifting centers.