Description: 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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EAN: 9781108972772
UPC: 9781108972772
ISBN: 9781108972772
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Format: Paperback, 396 pages
Author: Miles (University of Oxford) Larmer
Book Title: Living for the City: Social Change and Knowledge P
Item Height: 2.1 cm
Item Length: 22.9 cm
Item Weight: 0.53 kg
Item Width: 15.2 cm
Language: Eng
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
