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Anthropogenic soils --- Copper --- toxicity --- Bioaccumulation --- vegetation. --- Botanical composition --- Indicator plants --- Detoxification --- Copperbelt --- Zambia
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Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960's and early 1970's was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970's, however, the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated, leaving workers scrambling to get by. Expectations of Modernity explores the social and cultural responses to this prolonged period of sharp economic decline. Focusing on the experiences of mineworkers in the Copperbelt region, James Ferguson traces the failure of standard narratives of urbanization and social change to make sense of the Copperbelt's recent history. He instead develops alternative analytic tools appropriate for an "ethnography of decline. "Ferguson shows how the Zambian copper workers understand their own experience of social, cultural, and economic "advance" and "decline." Ferguson's ethnographic study transports us into their lives-the dynamics of their relations with family and friends, as well as copper companies and government agencies. Theoretically sophisticated and vividly written, Expectations of Modernity will appeal not only to those interested in Africa today, but to anyone contemplating the illusory successes of today's globalizing economy.
Urban anthropology --- Urbanization --- Industrialization --- Copper industry and trade --- Copper mines and mining --- Mines and mineral resources --- Metal trade --- Industrial development --- Economic development --- Economic policy --- Deindustrialization --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Cities and towns --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- Anthropology, Urban --- Ethnology --- Zambia --- Social conditions --- Economic conditions --- Politics and government. --- Urban anthropology - Zambia - Copperbelt Province --- Urbanization - Zambia - Copperbelt province --- Industrialization - Zambia - Copperbelt Province --- Copper industry and trade - Zambia - Copperbelt Province --- Copper mines and mining - Zambia - Copperbelt Province --- Zambia - Social conditions - 1964 --- -Zambia - Economic conditions - 1964 --- -Zambia - Politics and government --- 1960s. --- 1970s. --- academic. --- africa. --- african culture. --- african history. --- african studies. --- analysis. --- copper. --- copperbelt. --- cultural history. --- cultural studies. --- economic boom. --- economics. --- economy. --- ethnography. --- exports. --- finance. --- global economy. --- global. --- international. --- labor. --- modernity. --- money. --- precious metals. --- scholarly. --- social studies. --- urban economy. --- urban. --- zambia. --- zambian culture.
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Urban anthropology --- Urbanization --- Industrialization --- Copper industry and trade --- Copper mines and mining --- Zambia --- Social conditions --- Economic conditions --- Politics and government --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:39A4 --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Anthropologie urbaine --- Urbanisation --- Industrialisation --- Cuivre --- Industrie --- Mines et extraction --- Zambie --- Politics and government. --- Conditions sociales --- Conditions économiques --- Politique et gouvernement --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Anthropology, Urban --- Industrial development --- Cities and towns --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- Ethnology --- Economic development --- Economic policy --- Deindustrialization --- Mines and mineral resources --- Metal trade --- Urban anthropology - Zambia - Copperbelt Province --- Urbanization - Zambia - Copperbelt province --- Industrialization - Zambia - Copperbelt Province --- Copper industry and trade - Zambia - Copperbelt Province --- Copper mines and mining - Zambia - Copperbelt Province --- Zambia - Social conditions - 1964 --- -Zambia - Economic conditions - 1964 --- -Zambia - Politics and government
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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.
Labor. --- Labor and laboring classes --- Manpower --- Work --- Working class --- Copperbelt Province (Zambia) --- Zambia --- History. --- Labor --- Social change --- Urbanization --- Zambie --- Travail --- Changement social --- Urbanisation --- Histoire --- Ceinture cuprifère d'Afrique centrale
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Drawing on two years of ethnographic research, Naomi Haynes explores Pentecostal Christianity in the kind of community where it often flourishes: a densely populated neighborhood in the heart of an extraction economy. On the Zambian Copperbelt, Pentecostal adherence embeds believers in relationships that help them to "move" and progress in life. These efforts give Copperbelt Pentecostalism its particular local character, shaping ritual practice, gender dynamics, and church economics. Focusing on the promises and problems that Pentecostalism presents, Moving by the Spirit highlights this religion's role in making life possible in structurally adjusted Africa.
Pentecostals --- Pentecostalism --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Charismatic Movement --- Charismatic Renewal Movement --- Latter Rain movement --- Neo-Pentecostalism --- Pentecostal movement --- Christianity --- Gifts, Spiritual --- Glossolalia --- Pentecostalists --- Pentecostal churches --- Social life and customs --- Social aspects --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Social life and customs. --- academic. --- africa. --- belief. --- believers. --- christian living. --- christian. --- christianity. --- church history. --- church. --- community. --- copperbelt pentecostalism. --- economics. --- ethnographic research. --- ethnography. --- faith. --- gender dynamics. --- gender issues. --- gender studies. --- local. --- neighborhood. --- pentecostal. --- regional. --- relationships. --- research. --- scholarly. --- spirituality. --- zambian copperbelt.
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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.The Central African Copperbelt, encompassing the mining communities of Katanga (DR Congo) and Zambia, has been central to the study of modernisation and rapid social and political change in urban Africa. This volume expands upon earlier studies of industrial mining, male-dominated formal labour organisation and political change by examining both sides of the border from pre-colonial history to the present and encompassing a wide range of economic, social and cultural identities and activities. Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, the contributors explore copperbelt communities' sense of identity - expressed in comic strips and football matches, their precarious and inventive ways of living, their involvement in church and education, and the processes and impact of urbanisation and development, environmental degradation and changing gender relations. A major contribution to borderland studies, in showing how the meaning and relevance of the border to the copperbelt's mixed and mobile population has changed constantly over time, the book's engagement with communities at the nexus of social, economic and political change makes it a key study for those working in global urban development.
Labor --- Social change --- Urbanization --- Copperbelt Province (Zambia) --- History. --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Cities and towns --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social evolution --- Labor and laboring classes --- Manpower --- Work --- Working class --- Copperbelt Province, Zambia --- E-books --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A11 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Zambie --- Travail --- Changement social --- Urbanisation --- Histoire --- Ceinture cuprifère d'Afrique centrale
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Urbanization --- Africa, East. --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Cities and towns --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- Borderland Communities. --- Central Africa. --- Community Dynamics. --- Copperbelt. --- Cultural Identities. --- Economic Identities. --- Historical Analysis. --- Industrial Mining. --- Political Change. --- Social Change. --- Social Identities. --- Urban Change.
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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 that 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. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
Women --- History. --- Central African Copperbelt (Congo and Zambia) --- Politics and government. --- Ethnic relations. --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Femme --- Condition sociale --- Condition économique --- Relation ethnique --- Politique et gouvernement --- Ceinture cuprifère d'Afrique centrale --- République démocratique du Congo --- Zambie --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- History --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Afrika --- African history --- labor history --- social history
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Reassessing the developing world through the lens of Europe's pastToday's developing nations emerged from the rubble of the Second World War. Only a handful of these countries have subsequently attained a level of prosperity and security comparable to that of the advanced industrial world. The implication is clear: those who study the developing world in order to learn how development can be achieved lack the data to do so.In The Development Dilemma, Robert Bates responds to this challenge by turning to history, focusing on England and France. By the end of the eighteenth century, England stood poised to enter "the great transformation." France by contrast verged on state failure, and life and property were insecure. Probing the histories of these countries, Bates uncovers a powerful tension between prosperity and security: both may be necessary for development, he argues, but efforts to achieve the one threaten the achievement of the other. A fundamental tension pervades the political economy of development.Bates also argues that while the creation of a central hierarchy-a state-may be necessary to the achievement of development, it is not sufficient. What matters is how the power of the state is used. France and England teach us that in some settings the seizure and redistribution of wealth-not its safeguarding and fostering-is a winning political strategy. These countries also suggest the features that mark those settings-features that appear in nations throughout the developing world.Returning to the present, Bates applies these insights to the world today. Drawing on fieldwork in Zambia and Kenya, and data from around the globe, he demonstrates how the past can help us to understand the performance of nations in today's developing world.
Activism. --- Africa. --- African National Congress. --- Agrarian society. --- Agriculture. --- Authoritarianism. --- Cambridge University Press. --- Central Africa. --- Central Authority. --- Central Committee. --- Central government. --- Chivalry. --- Colonial Service. --- Colonialism. --- Comparative advantage. --- Copperbelt. --- Cultural heritage. --- Cut-point. --- Data set. --- Debt. --- Defection. --- Demesne. --- Developed country. --- Early modern period. --- East Africa. --- Economic development. --- Economic growth. --- Economic history. --- Economy. --- Employment. --- Ethnic group. --- Europe. --- Failed state. --- Imperialism. --- Income. --- Industrial society. --- Institution. --- Insurgency. --- Intendant. --- Interquartile range. --- James Fearon. --- Jomo Kenyatta. --- Kenya African Union. --- Kenya People's Union. --- Kenya. --- Kiambu. --- Kitwe. --- Lusaka. --- Michela Wrong. --- Middle Ages. --- Military occupation. --- Mining. --- Moise Tshombe. --- Msiri. --- Mufulira. --- Mwai Kibaki. --- Northern Rhodesia. --- Nyasaland. --- Oxford University Press. --- Palgrave Macmillan. --- Percentage point. --- Political geography. --- Political party. --- Political science. --- Political violence. --- Politician. --- Politics. --- Poverty. --- Predation. --- Proconsul. --- Regime. --- Regional assembly (England). --- Reprisal. --- Research institute. --- Result. --- Rift valley. --- Right to property. --- Ruler. --- Shortage. --- Southern Rhodesia. --- Suger. --- Tax. --- Textile industry. --- The Great Transformation (book). --- Time series. --- Trade union. --- Uganda. --- Underdevelopment. --- Underpinning. --- United National Independence Party. --- University of California Press. --- Uppsala Conflict Data Program. --- Urbanization. --- Vassal. --- Wealth. --- William Nordhaus. --- World War I. --- Yale University Press. --- Year. --- Zambia.
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