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OverviewLiving 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. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Miles Larmer (University of Oxford)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.696kg ISBN: 9781108833158ISBN 10: 1108833152 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 12 August 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction; 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.Reviews'This is a superb book, a model for combining social history with the history of knowledge production. It not only offers fresh perspectives on the Central African Copperbelt, but sets an example for a better understanding and a nuanced interpretation of broader transformations in Africa since the 1950s.' Andreas Eckert, Humboldt University Berlin 'This book helps us see the central African Copperbelt in a new light. Company towns were fulcrums for new forms of thought, engines for the creation of new kinds of culture, incubators for new literary projects, forcing-houses for new kinds of politics. Grounded on research in a wide range of archives, and drawing from oral interviews in Zambia and the Congo, Miles Larmer's impressive book gives labor history new dimensions, helping us glimpse the intellectual worlds where miners lived.' Derek Peterson, University of Michigan Author InformationMiles 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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