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

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

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.

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (437 pages)
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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.

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