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Living for the City - Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt (Hardcover)
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Living for the City - Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt (Hardcover)
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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 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.
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