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At the Crossroads: Mining and Political Change on the Katangese-Zambian Copperbelt
- Abstract:
- The Copperbelt region of Central Africa sits at the crossroads of political borders, trade corridors, migratory flows, and identity formations. The division of the region by a colonial/national border shaped not only its differential political economy, but also how this was perceived and represented. At the heart of all such representations was the relationship between minerals and their supposed capacity to effect economic, political, and social transformation. This article analyzes how this relationship has been understood and articulated from the precolonial period until today, and the ways that actual and potential mineral wealth have underwritten successive, often contested, political projects and aspirations. In identifying changes and enduring patterns in miningbased political representation, it suggests an alternative history of the Copperbelt region rooted in the political imaginaries surrounding mining and its potential for transformation.
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- Published
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- 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935369.013.20
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- Oxford University Press
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- Publication date:
- 2016-07-01
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- 2015-09-02
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- © Oxford University Press, 2018. This is the Accepted Manuscript version of the chapter. The final version is available online from Oxford University Press at: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935369.013.20
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