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What Price for Privatization?: Cultural Encounter with Development
Policy on the Zambian Copperbelt considers how one African
community experienced the sale to foreign investors of its main
industry, a group of state-owned copper mines. Everyday Zambians
saw a series of uncertain, shifting interactions among individuals,
corporations, immaterial forces, and material interests as running
counter to hard facts about the state of the mines and the
country's overall economy. Supernatural or spiritual forces played
a powerful, negative role in what Zambians understood to be
happening as a result of privatization. But there was no place
within dominant development policy talk to account for this sort of
knowledge. Indeed, many of the disappointments and failures that
have long characterized development activities can be traced to
profound discrepancies existing when local knowledge infused with a
particular worldview is overlooked by policymakers. The types of
policies that have undergirded development interventions for almost
sixty years have elevated economic, political, and operational
interests over all others. But such ways of thinking about the
world leave huge gaps in comprehension. This is particularly true
in regard to the cultural and religious experiences of both the
people who devise policies and those who live with the policy
consequences. What Price for Privatization? documents such an
instance and suggests some intellectual and practical means by
which things might change on behalf of the global common welfare.
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