The Global History of Mine Subsidence: from Butte to Kitwe – Brian J. Leech
Brian J. Leech is an Associate Professor of History at Augustana College. His book, The City that Ate Itself: Butte, Montana and Its Expanding Berkeley […]
Articles by Claire Phillips
Call for Contributions: Extractive Industries and the Environment: Production, Pollution and Protest from a Global and Historical Perspective, December 2019 (Oxford)
Paper proposals are invited for a 2-day workshop in Oxford on 6-7 December 2019 on ‘Extractive Industries and the Environment’. Contemporary societies are built around […]
Museum Cultures in the Copperbelt: The Yabili Family Museum in Lubumbashi – Sarah Van Beurden
Sarah Van Beurden is an Associate Professor of History at the Ohio State University and a visiting scholar in the Department of African Studies at […]
Historicising Cross-Border Copperbelt Relations through Football, 1900-1960s – Hikabwa Chipande
Hikabwa Chipande is a Lecturer & Researcher in Sports at the University of Zambia School of Education. Missionaries, industrialists and colonialists introduced team sports such […]
Seminar: ‘Cultural Production in Africa’s Extractive Communities’, 16 May 2019
‘Cultural Production in Africa’s Extractive Communities’ is the sixth research seminar of the ERC project ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ based at the University of Oxford. It […]
Beyond the Male Gaze: Images of Katangese Women – Rachel Taylor
Rachel Taylor is Research Associate in the History of Haut Katanga on the ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ project. When I started work on the Comparing the […]
Using oral history in the research of mining communities – Iva Peša
Iva Peša is Research Associate in Environmental History on the ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ project. Many researchers have attempted to record processes of social change among […]
Solwezi will be the “new copperbelt”: dashed expectations, collective grievances, and ethnic tensions in North-Western Zambia – Robby Kapesa
Robby Kapesa is a PhD student at the Copperbelt University under the Dag Hammarskjöld Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies in Zambia. Following the privatization […]
Call for Papers: Comparing the Copperbelt: Society, Ecology and Culture in Central Africa’s mining communities – University of Lubumbashi, DRC, 23-24 July 2019
Workshop held in association with the University of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo This workshop, building on a successful event held in Zambia in July […]
Oldies but Goodies: The Phenomenon of Artistic Revival in the Copperbelt – Enid Guene
Enid Guene is Research Associate in Cultural History on the ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ project. Contemporary African art is on the rise, or at least, that […]