Expectations of modernity [electronic resource] : myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian Copperbelt / James Ferguson.
1999
GN657.R4 F47 1999eb
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Expectations of modernity [electronic resource] : myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian Copperbelt / James Ferguson.
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9780520922280 (electronic bk.)
0520217012
0520217020
9780520217010
0520217012
0520217020
9780520217010
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Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c1999.
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English
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1 online resource (xvii, 326 p.) : ill., maps.
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GN657.R4 F47 1999eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
306/.096894
Summary
Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s, however, the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated, leaving workers scrambling to get by. Expectations of Modernity explores the social and cultural responses to this prolonged period of sharp economic decline. Focusing on the experiences of mineworkers in the Copperbelt region, James Ferguson traces the failure of standard narratives of urbanization and social change to make sense of the Copperbelt's recent history.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-320) and index.
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Perspectives on Southern Africa ; 57.
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Table of Contents
The Copperbelt in theory: from "emerging Africa" to the ethnography of decline
Expectations of permanence: mobile workers, modernist narratives, and the "full house" of urban-rural residential strategies
Rural connections, urban styles: theorizing cultural dualism
"Back to the land"?: the micropolitical economy of "return" migration
Expectations of domesticity: men, women, and "the modern family"
Asia in miniature: signification, noise, and cosmopolitan style
Global disconnect: abjection and the aftermath of modernism.
Expectations of permanence: mobile workers, modernist narratives, and the "full house" of urban-rural residential strategies
Rural connections, urban styles: theorizing cultural dualism
"Back to the land"?: the micropolitical economy of "return" migration
Expectations of domesticity: men, women, and "the modern family"
Asia in miniature: signification, noise, and cosmopolitan style
Global disconnect: abjection and the aftermath of modernism.