Living for the city : social change and knowledge production in the Central African Copperbelt / Miles Larmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Larmer, Miles, author.

Series:

Social Sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Central African Copperbelt (Congo and Zambia)--History.

Women.

Central African Copperbelt (Congo and Zambia)--History.

Central African Copperbelt (Congo and Zambia).

Central African Copperbelt (Congo and Zambia)--Politics and government.

Central African Copperbelt (Congo and Zambia)--Ethnic relations.

Central African Copperbelt (Congo and Zambia)--Economic conditions.

Central African Copperbelt (Congo and Zambia)--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 380 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 'modernity' in Africa. Observers found in these towns new African communities that were experiencing what they wrongly understood as a transition from rural 'traditional' society - stable, superstitious and agricultural - to an urban existence characterised by industrial work discipline, the money economy and conspicuous consumption, Christianity, and nuclear families headed by male breadwinners supported by domesticated housewives. Miles Larmer challenges this representation of Copperbelt society, presenting an original analysis which integrates the region's social history with the production of knowledge about it, shaped by both changing political and intellectual contexts and by Copperbelt communities themselves.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Aug 2021).

ISBN:

1-108-96820-1

1-108-96800-7

1-108-97312-4