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Living for the city : social change and knowledge production in the central African Copperbelt /

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Living for the City is a social history of the central African Copperbelt, considered as a single region encompassing the neighboring 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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Larmer, Miles (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Central African Copperbelt (Congo and Zambia) > History.
Central African Copperbelt (Congo and Zambia) > Social conditions.
Central African Copperbelt (Congo and Zambia) > Economic conditions.
Central African Copperbelt (Congo and Zambia) > Ethnic relations.
Central African Copperbelt (Congo and Zambia) > Politics and government.
Women > Central African Copperbelt (Congo and Zambia) > History.
HISTORY / Africa / General.
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.