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.
This book is available under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC. It is based on research that is part of a project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement no: 681657): 'Comparing the Copperbelt: Political Culture and Knowledge Production in Central Africa'.
Introduction - Enid Guene and Benoīt Henriet and Miles Larmer and Iva
Pesa and Rachel Taylor
PART 1: MICRO-STUDIES OF URBAN LIFE
Beyond Paternalism: Pluralising Copperbelt Histories - Iva Pesa and Benoīt
Henriet
Being a Child of the Mines: Youth Magazines and Comics in the Copperbelt -
Enid Guene
Divergence and Convergence on the Copperbelt: White Mineworkers in
Comparative Perspective, 1911 - 63 - Duncan Money
Football on the Zambian and Katangese Copperbelts: Leisure and Fan Culture
from the 1930s to the Present - Hikabwa D. Chipande
Beware the Mineral Narrative: The Histories of Solwezi Town and Kansanshi
Mine, Northwestern Zambia - Rita Kesselring
PART 2: THE LOCAL COPPERBELT AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
Kingdoms and Associations: Copper's Changing Political Economy during the
Nineteenth Century - David M. Gordon
Of Corporate Welfare Buildings and Private Initiative: Post-Paternalist
Ruination and Renovation in a Former Zambian Mine Township - Christian
Straube
From a Colonial to a Mineral Flow Regime: The Mineral Trade and the Inertia
of Global Infrastructures in the Copperbelt - Hélčne Blaszkiewicz
Houses Built on Copper: The Environmental Impact of Current Mining Activities
on "Old" and "New" Zambian Copperbelt Communities - Jennifer Chibamba Chansa
PART 3: PRODUCING AND CONTESTING KNOWLEDGE OF URBAN SOCIETIES
"The British, The French and even the Russians use these Methods":
Psychology, Mental Testing and (Trans)Imperial Dynamics of Expertise
Production in Late Colonial Congo - Amandine Lauro
Historical Knowledge Production at the University of Lubumbashi (1956 - 2018)
- Donatien Dibwe dia Mwembu
The Decolonisation of Community Development in Haut Katanga and the Zambian
Copperbelt, 1945 - 1990 - Miles Larmer and Rachel Taylor
Reimagining the Copperbelt as a Religious Space - Stephanie Lämmert
MILES LARMER is Professor of African History, University of Oxford. ENID GUENE is Research Associate in Cultural History, University of Oxford. BENOĪT HENRIET is Assistant Professor in History, Vrije Universiteit Brussels. IVA PESA is Assistant Professor in History, University of Groningen. ENID GUENE is Research Associate in Cultural History, University of Oxford. RACHEL TAYLOR is Research Associate in the History of Haut Katanga (DRC), African Studies Centre, University of Oxford. BENOĪT HENRIET is Assistant Professor in History, Vrije Universiteit Brussels. MILES LARMER is Professor of African History, University of Oxford.
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