Living for the City - Social Change Knowledge Production in Central African Copperbelt

A history of the cross-border Central African copperbelt, integrating the region's social history with knowledge production about it.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Imagining the Copperbelts; 2. Boom Time - Revisiting Capital and Labour in the Copperbelt; 3. Space, Segregation and Socialisation; 4. Political Activism, Organisation and Change in the Late Colonial Copperbelt; 5. Gendering the Copperbelt; 6. Nationalism and Nationalisation; 7. Copperbelt cultures from the Kalela Dance to the Beautiful Time; 8. Decline and Fall: Crisis and the Copperbelt, 1975-2000; 9. Remaking the Land: Environmental Change in the Copperbelt's history, present and future; Conclusion.

About the author

Miles Larmer is Professor of African History in the Faculty of History and African Studies Centre, St Antony's College, University of Oxford, and Research Fellow in the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he is the author of The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central-Southern Africa, 1960-1999, with Erik Kennes (2016), Rethinking African Politics: A History of Opposition in Zambia (2011) and Mineworkers in Zambia: Labour and Political Change in Post-Colonial Africa, 1964 – 1991 (2007).

Summary

A holistic understanding of the diverse history of the cross-border Central African Copperbelt, considered here as a single region, this study integrates neglected aspects of Copperbelt history including women, non-mining communities, informal settlements and urban agriculture into the region's history.

Product details

• Authors: Miles Larmer, Miles (University of Oxford) Larmer, Larmer Miles
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9781108972772
• ISBN: 978-1-108-97277-2
• No. of pages: 396
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Africa / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Economic history, Social and cultural history, African History