Across the Copperbelt : : Urban and Social Change in Central Africa's Borderland Communities.

• Author: Larmer, Miles.
• TeilnehmendeR: Guene, Enid.; Henriet, Benoît.; Pesa, Iva.; Taylor, Rachel.; Money, Duncan.; Chipande, Hikabwa D.; Kesselring, Rita.; Gordon, David M.; Straube, Christian.
• Place / Publishing House: Woodbridge : : Boydell & Brewer, Limited,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (437 pages)

The first comparative historical analysis - local, national and transnational - of the cross-border Central African copperbelt; a key work in studies of labour, urbanisation and African studies.

Table of Contents

Front cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1: Micro-Studies of Urban Life -- 1. Beyond Paternalism: Pluralising Copperbelt Histories -- 2. Being a Child of the Mines: Youth Magazines and Comics in the Copperbelt -- 3. Divergence and Convergence on the Copperbelt: White Mineworkers in Comparative Perspective, 1911-1963 -- 4. Football on the Zambian and Katangese Copperbelts: Leisure and Fan Culture from the 1930s to the Present -- 5. Beware the Mineral Narrative: The Histories of Solwezi Town and Kansanshi Mine, North-Western Zambia, c.1899-2020 -- Part 2: The Local Copperbelt and the Global Economy -- 6. Kingdoms and Associations: Copper's Changing Political Economy during the Nineteenth Century -- 7. Of Corporate Welfare Buildings and Private Initiative: Post-Paternalist Ruination and Renovation in a Former Zambian Mine Township -- 8. From a Colonial to a Mineral Flow Regime: The Mineral Trade and the Inertia of Global Infrastructures in the Copperbelt -- 9. Houses Built on Copper:The Environmental Impact of Current Mining Activities on 'Old' and 'New'Zambian Copperbelt Communities -- Part 3. Producing and Contesting Knowledge of Urban Societies -- 10. 'The British, the French and even the Russians use these methods': Psychology, Mental Testing and (Trans)Imperial Dynamics of Expertise Production in Late-Colonial Congo -- 11. The Production of Historical Knowledge at the University of Lubumbashi (1956-2018) -- 12. The Decolonisation of Community Development in Haut-Katanga and the Zambian Copperbelt, 1945-1990 -- 13. Reimagining the Copperbelt as a Religious Space -- Select Bibliography -- Index.