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

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.

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967 LAR l
Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.,
Collation
xiii, 380 p. : ill
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
9781108973120
Classification
967
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Social conditions
Economic history
Politics and government
Women
Ethnic relations
Africa--Central African Copperbelt
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