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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‘Comparaison de le ‘copperbelt’’ conference, July 2019

10th September 2019 Claire Phillips 0

On 23-24 July 2019, the Comparing the Copperbelt project co-organised a major conference with our partners at University of Lubumbashi (UNILU). The conference, held at […]

Call for Contributions: Extractive Industries and the Environment: Production, Pollution and Protest from a Global and Historical Perspective, December 2019 (Oxford)

3rd July 2019 Claire Phillips 0

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 […]

Seminar: ‘Cultural Production in Africa’s Extractive Communities’, 16 May 2019

11th April 2019 Claire Phillips 0

‘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 […]

Call for Papers: Comparing the Copperbelt: Society, Ecology and Culture in Central Africa’s mining communities – University of Lubumbashi, DRC, 23-24 July 2019

17th December 2018 Claire Phillips 0

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 […]

Call for Contributions: edited book ‘Comparing the Copperbelts’

21st November 2018 Claire Phillips 0

We invite expressions of interest in an edited volume provisionally titled ‘Comparing the Copperbelts’ and scheduled to be published in late 2020/early 2021, as an […]

Seminar: Knowledge Production in Colonial and Post-colonial History, 2 November 2018 (Oxford)

11th October 2018 Claire Phillips 0

The production of knowledge about colonised peoples was, it is now recognised, at the heart of imperial rule. European colonisation of the non-western world drew […]

Comparing the Central African Copperbelt: Kitwe conference, July 2018

13th September 2018 Claire Phillips 0

A landmark event for the ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ project took place in the Zambian copperbelt city of Kitwe on 23-24 July 2018, when a two-day […]

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Job vacancy: Research Associate in the History of Haut Katanga, DRC (Comparing the Copperbelt project)

23rd July 2018 Claire Phillips 0

School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Oxford Grade 7: £31,604 p.a. The African Studies Centre in the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies seeks applications from candidates […]

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Kitwe workshop 23-24 July programme/abstracts

17th July 2018 Claire Phillips 0

These are now available to download – click here to go to the event page.

Congo Research Network conference, April 2018

28th June 2018 Claire Phillips 0

Conference report by Miles Larmer and Benoit Henriet of the ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ project. On 26-27 April 2018, the University of Oxford played host to […]

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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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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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