Comparing the Copperbelt

Comparing the Copperbelt

Political Culture and Knowledge Production in Central Africa

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      • Conference: Comparing the Copperbelt: Social history and knowledge production in Central Africa, 18-19 June 2021
      • Extractive Industries and the Environment: Production, Pollution and Protest from a Global and Historical Perspective, 6-7 December 2019 (Oxford)
      • Workshop: Comparaison de la ‘copperbelt’: société, écologie et culture dans les communautés minières d’Afrique centrale, 23-24 July 2019 (Université de Lubumbashi)
      • Seminar: ‘Cultural Production in Africa’s Extractive Communities’, 16 May 2019
      • Seminar: ‘Knowledge production in colonial and post-colonial history’, 2 Nov 2018
      • Workshop: Comparing the Copperbelt: Political culture and knowledge production in Central Africa, 23-24 July 2018 (Kitwe, Zambia)
      • Conference: ‘Congolese Studies: Past, Present, Future’, 26-27 April 2018
      • Seminar: ‘Mining and Environmental Change in African History’, 3 November 2017
      • Seminar: ‘Urban spirituality in Central and Southern Africa’, 8 June 2017
        • Report: ‘Urban Spirituality in Central and Southern Africa’, 8 June 2017
      • Seminar: ‘Comparing Africa’s Copperbelt’, 5-6 December 2016
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Article in Oxford ASC Annual Newsletter

14th September 2021 Claire Phillips News 0

The project recently featured in host department Oxford African Studies Centre’s Annual Newsletter 2020-21. As well as an overview of the project’s recent achievements, the article features insights by project researchers Enid Guene and Rachel Taylor.

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To see the full ASC Annual Newsletter visit https://www.africanstudies.ox.ac.uk/article/asc-2019-newsletter

Recent blog posts

  • Comparing the Copperbelt: Final Thoughts and Future Directions – Miles Larmer

    19th October 2021 0
  • Mineworkers Union of Zambia (MUZ) main chamber at the mine’s headquarters, Katilungu House, Kitwe, Copperbelt. Photo, Robby Kapesa (2020)

    ‘We are not just a union, we are a family’ – Robby Kapesa and Thomas McNamara

    2nd June 2020 0
  • Why language matters – on ex-mineworkers’ nostalgia in Lubumbashi (DR Congo) – Daniela Waldburger

    1st April 2020 0

News

  • Article in Oxford ASC Annual Newsletter

    14th September 2021 0
  • Published online (Open Access): Miles Larmer, ‘Living for the City: Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt’

    2nd September 2021 0
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This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No. 681657).

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