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SUMMARY:Comparing the Central African Copperbelts: social history and know
 ledge production in the Zambian copperbelt and Haut Katanga - Dr Miles Lar
 mer (Associate Professor of African History\, University of Oxford) 
DTSTART:20160201T170000Z
DTEND:20160201T183000Z
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CONTACT:Victoria Jones
DESCRIPTION:The Central African Copperbelt provides a classic case study o
 f urban African society. The findings of social science research which hel
 ped create the ideal of Copperbelt urbanity have been successfully challen
 ged by Ferguson's critique of its modernist assumptions\; and by the diver
 gence of actually existing Copperbelt society from the Eurocentric norms u
 nderwriting this analysis. Yet idealised notions of copperbelt urbanism co
 ntinue to be identified by later researchers and appear to influence polit
 ical discourse and action. \nThis paper analyses the intersection between 
 the social history of the two copperbelt regions and its representation  b
 y both academic and non-academic actors. It compares the construction of t
 he quintessential 'modern urban African' in the Zambian copperbelt - polit
 ically militant\, cosmpolitan and consumerist - with his counterpart in Ha
 ut Katanga - politically quiescent\, domesticated and clientelist - and se
 eks to explain the ways in which these different identities reflect the in
 teraction of material realities and knowledge production processes. 
LOCATION:Seminar Room S1 Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge
  CB3 9DT
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