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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Blog posts

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

19th October 2021 Claire Phillips 0

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 […]

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 Claire Phillips 0

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

1st April 2020 Claire Phillips 0

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)

3rd March 2020 Claire Phillips 0

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

28th January 2020 Claire Phillips 0

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

18th December 2019 Claire Phillips 0

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

19th November 2019 Claire Phillips 0

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

21st October 2019 Claire Phillips 0

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

26th September 2019 Claire Phillips 0

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 […]

Subsidence in Central Butte (2018) - photo by the author.

The Global History of Mine Subsidence: from Butte to Kitwe – Brian J. Leech

8th July 2019 Claire Phillips 0

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 […]

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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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