Comparing the Copperbelt: Final Thoughts and Future Directions – Miles Larmer
The ending of the ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ project at the end of September 2021 provides an opportunity to reflect on the project’s achievements as well […]
Blog posts
‘We are not just a union, we are a family’ – Robby Kapesa and Thomas McNamara
Thomas McNamara is a Lecturer in International Development at La Trobe University in Australia. Robby Kapesa is a research fellow at the Copperbelt University under […]
Why language matters – on ex-mineworkers’ nostalgia in Lubumbashi (DR Congo) – Daniela Waldburger
Daniela Waldburger is a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Department of African Studies, University of Vienna. Her research is part of a broader research project on […]
Globalising the environmental history of extraction (Extractive Industries & the Environment workshop report)
Report written by Iva Peša, Associate Member of History Faculty, Oxford and Research Associate in Environmental History, Comparing the Copperbelt project (Jan 17-Sep 19). What […]
“An Ecological Anomaly”: Wildlife policy on the Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt – Jeff Schauer
Jeff Schauer is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The Copperbelt region played a distinct role in […]
From ‘Senta’ to ‘Acid Fumes’: Mufulira, Mopani Copper Mines and Environmental Pollution – Chibamba Jennifer Chansa
Jennifer is a final-year PhD candidate in the International Studies Group (ISG) at the University of the Free State. Her current research examines environmental pollution […]
Remembering COLAGREL: Space, Memory, and Oral History – Nicole Eggers
Nicole Eggers is assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and is currently completing a book manuscript tentatively titled ‘Unruly Ideas: A History […]
Why Zambia’s North-Western Province is NOT the ‘new Copperbelt’ – Margaret O’Callaghan
Margaret O’Callaghan is the author of the forthcoming publication “Copperfields”, which describes the first decade of the North-Western province mining boom. She delivered a paper […]
Why the Copperbelt remains Zambia’s factory of political change – Sishuwa Sishuwa
Sishuwa Sishuwa is a Lecturer in African History at the University of Zambia and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cape Town. Since […]
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 […]