@article{446886,
      recid = {446886},
      author = {Ferguson, James,},
      title = {Expectations of modernity myths and meanings of urban life  on the Zambian Copperbelt / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {University of California Press,},
      address = {Berkeley, Calif. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xvii, 326 p.) :},
      year = {1999},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/446886},
}