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    Across the Copperbelt : Urban & Social Change in Central Africa's Borderland Communities (2021)
    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Boydell & Brewer
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    ISBN: 9781800101487
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Keywords: African history ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Politics & government
    Abstract: 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. MILES LARMER is Professor of African History, University of Oxford; ENID GUENE is Research Associate in Cultural History, University of Oxford; BENOÎT HENRIET is Assistant Professor in History, Vrije Universiteit Brussels; IVA PESA is Assistant Professor in History, University of Groningen ; RACHEL TAYLOR is Research Associate in the History of Haut Katanga (DRC), African Studies Centre, University of Oxford. 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'
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    Colonial Impotence : Virtue and Violence in a Congolese Concession (1911-1940) (2021)
    Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter
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    ISBN: 9783110652734 , 9783110648782
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (202 p.)
    Series Statement: Africa in Global History 3
    Keywords: African history ; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
    Abstract: This book offers a historical anthropology of the Leverville concession, the largest palm oil exploitation in Belgian Congo, and one of Unilever's main plants outside of Europe, between 1911 and 1940. It provides new understandings of the joint experience of colonialism and capitalism. As a focused case study this book offers a unique take on the global history of the early 20th century
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    Across the Copperbelt : Urban & Social Change in Central Africa's Borderland Communities (2021)
    Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer
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    ISBN: 9781800101487
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (380 p.)
    Keywords: African history ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Development studies
    Abstract: 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'
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    Across the Copperbelt : urban & social change in Central Africa's borderland communities (2021)
    Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey
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    ISBN: 9781800101487 , 1800101481
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , illustrations (black and white)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Across the copperbelt
    DDC: 968.94
    Keywords: Labor ; Social change ; Urbanization ; Labor ; Social change ; Urbanization ; History ; Copperbelt Province (Zambia) History ; Zambia ; Copperbelt Province
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Beyond paternalism : pluralising Copperbelt histories (2021)
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    In:  Across the copperbelt (2021), Seite 27-51 | year:2021 | pages:27-51
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    ISBN: 9781847012661
    Language: English
    Titel der Quelle: Across the copperbelt
    Publ. der Quelle: Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey, 2021
    Angaben zur Quelle: (2021), Seite 27-51
    Angaben zur Quelle: year:2021
    Angaben zur Quelle: pages:27-51
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    Across the copperbelt : urban & social change in Central Africa's borderland communities (2021)
    Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey
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    ISBN: 9781847012661
    Language: English
    Pages: xxi, 414 Seiten , Diagramme, Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Larmer, Miles Across the Copperbelt
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Across the Copperbelt
    Keywords: Labor ; Social change ; Urbanization ; Regionale Wirtschaftsstruktur ; Wirtschaftsraum ; Region ; Rohstoffgewinnung ; Kupfer ; Sozialer Wandel ; Copperbelt Province (Zambia) History ; Zentralafrika ; Demokratische Republik Kongo ; Sambia ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 373-401
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    Facing the talking snake : Witchcraft, anxiety, and sense-making in interwar Belgian Congo (2018)
    In:  The _International Journal of African Historical Studies 51/2, 2018, S. 219-241
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    Language: English
    Titel der Quelle: The _International Journal of African Historical Studies
    Angaben zur Quelle: 51/2, 2018, S. 219-241
    Note: Benoît Henriet
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    "Elusive natives" : Escaping colonial control in the Leverville oil palm concession, Belgian Congo, 1923 - 1941 (2015)
    In:  Canadian Journal of African Studies 49/2, 2015, S. 339-361
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    Language: English
    Titel der Quelle: Canadian Journal of African Studies
    Angaben zur Quelle: 49/2, 2015, S. 339-361
    Note: Benoît Henriet
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    Colonial impotence : virtue and violence in a Congolese concession (1911-1940) (2021)
    Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg
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    ISBN: 978-3-11-065273-4 , 978-3-11-064909-3 , 978-3-11-064878-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 191 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Africa in Global History volume 3
    Keywords: Kongo-Becken Demokratische Republik Kongo ; Kolonie, belgisch ; Geschichte ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Korruption ; Landwirtschaft ; Nutzpflanze ; Unilever-Konzern
    Abstract: In Colonial Impotence, Benoît Henriet studies the violent contradictions of colonial rule from the standpoint of the Leverville concession, Belgian Congo's largest palm oil exploitation. Leverville was imagined as a benevolent tropical utopia, whose Congolese workers would be "civilized" through a paternalist machinery. However, the concession was marred by inefficiency, endemic corruption and intrinsic brutality. Colonial agents in the field could be seen as impotent, for they were both unable and unwilling to perform as expected. This book offers a new take on the joint experience of colonialism and capitalism in Southwest Congo, and sheds light on their impact on local environments, bodies, societies and cosmogonies. (Verlagsangabe)
    Description / Table of Contents: Table of figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: "Congo Atrocities!!!" -- Chapter 1: The virtuous enclave -- Chapter 2: Impotent agents -- Chapter 3: Ordering and evading -- Chapter 4: An indescribable ugliness -- Chapter 5: The concession embodied -- Chapter 6: A war against nature -- Conclusion: The concession experience -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 178-188
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