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Overview"Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s, 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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: James FergusonPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Volume: 57 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9780520217027ISBN 10: 0520217020 Pages: 343 Publication Date: 01 October 1999 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of Contents"List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Cases Acknowledgments I. The Copperbelt in Theory From ""Emerging Africa"" to the Ethnography of Decline 2. Expectations of Permanence Mobile Workers, Modernist Narratives, and the ""Full House"" of Urban-Rural Residential Strategies 3. Rural Connections, Urban Styles Theorizing Cultural Dualism 4· ""Back to the Land""? The Micropolitical Economy of ""Return"" Migration 5. Expectations of Domesticity Men, Women, and ""the Modern Family"" 6. Asia in Miniature Signification, Noise, and Cosmopolitan Style 7. Global Disconnect Abjection and the Aftermath of Modernism Postscript: December 1998 Appendix: Mineworkers' Letters Notes References Index"ReviewsFerguson is an astute analyst of ideologies of development and the misunderstandings they can generate. * Foreign Affairs * Ferguson presents a set of stimulating and important theoretical ideas. * American Ethnologust * [A] remarkable, deeply satisfying book. * Journal of Asian and African Studies * [Ferguson] has . . . exposed the need for a fresh set of intellectual resources to protect new generations from another set of false promises of development. * Canadian Journal of Sociology * Ferguson stands as a strong voice against the modernization paradigm. * On Politics: Journal of the University of Victoria Undergraduates of Political Science * Ferguson stands as a strong voice against the modernization paradigm. * On Politics: Journal of the University of Victoria Undergraduates of Political Science * [Ferguson] has . . . exposed the need for a fresh set of intellectual resources to protect new generations from another set of false promises of development. * Canadian Journal of Sociology * [A] remarkable, deeply satisfying book. * Journal of Asian and African Studies * Ferguson presents a set of stimulating and important theoretical ideas. * American Ethnologust * Ferguson is an astute analyst of ideologies of development and the misunderstandings they can generate. * Foreign Affairs * The development of urban anthropology as a distinctive subdiscipline owes much to the steady stream of research on Zambian cities since the early 1940s. . . . Zambianists have contributed significantly to our empirical and theoretical understnading of social processes in urban spaces. Ferguson's Expectations of Modernity is a marvelous contribution to this long-standing tradition. . . . This is a textually dense, data rich, and theoretically sophisticated work that merits inclusion among the classics of urban anthropology. -- International Journal of African Historical Studies Author Information"James Ferguson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of The Anti-Politics Machine: ""Development,"" Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho (1990). He is also coeditor, with Akhil Gupta, of Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science (California, 1997) and Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology (1997)." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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