Living for the city : social change and knowledge production in the Central African Copperbelt /
Living for the City is a social history of the Central African Copperbelt, considered as a single region encompassing the neighbouring mining regions of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Haut Katanga and Zambian Copperbelt mine towns have been understood as the vanguard of urban '...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2021.
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108973120 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Imagining the Copperbelts
- Chapter Two: Boom time: revisiting capital and labour in the Copperbelt
- Chapter Three: Space, segregation and socialisation
- Chapter Four: Political activism, organisation and change in the late colonial Copperbelt
- Chapter Five: Gendering the Copperbelt
- Chapter Six: Nationalism and nationalisation
- Chapter Seven: Copperbelt cultures from the Kalela Dance to the Beautiful Time
- Chapter Eight: Decline and fall: crisis and the Copperbelt, 1975-2000
- Chapter Nine: Remaking the land: environmental change in the Copperbelt's history, present and future
- Conclusion.