Political Cultures in the Central African Copperbelt (ECAS Panel Report)
Iva Peša reports on the ‘Political Cultures in the Central African Copperbelt’ panel at the recent ECAS conference in Basel From 29 June until 1 […]
Report on ‘Urban Spirituality’ seminar
Stephanie Lämmert reports on the ‘Urban Spirituality’ seminar held on 8 June at St Antony’s College, Oxford The historiography of the Zambian Copperbelt is very […]
Territoriality, borders and spatial practices in the Copperbelt and beyond – Miles Larmer
Post by Miles Larmer, PI, ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ project One of the great myths of African history is that the 1884-85 Berlin conference divided the […]
CfP: Conference: ‘Congolese Studies: Past, Present, Future’, 26-27 April 2018
The ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ project is one of the main organising partners of the Congo Research Network’s fourth international conference ‘Congolese Studies: Past, Present, Future’, […]
Making the environment visible – Iva Peša
Post by Iva Peša, Research Associate in Environmental History Large-scale copper mining has undoubtedly resulted in pervasive and enduring environmental impacts. Timothy LeCain has even […]
Somewhere Under the Rainbow: Doing Research on the Zambian Copperbelt – Duncan Money
Duncan Money is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the International Studies Group, University of the Free State. He is primarily interested in connections between the […]
Book review: ‘A Casualty of Power’ Mukuka Chipanta
Read Stephanie Lämmert’s review of the Zambian writer Mukuka Chipanta’s recently published debut novel A Casualty of Power, a story about the Chinese-Zambian relations in […]
Research seminar: ‘Urban spirituality in Central and Southern Africa’, 8 June 2017 (Oxford)
This event, ‘Urban spirituality in Central and Southern Africa’, is the second research seminar of the ERC project ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ based at the University […]
Fieldwork methodology among a multiplicity of unions – a report by Kristien Geenen
Kristien Geenen is an anthropologist affiliated to the University of Liège and a member of the WORKinMINING project, a collective and comparative research project on […]
Miles Larmer on a forthcoming special issue of the Extractive Industries and Society journal on ‘extractive communities’
Read here about a forthcoming special issue of the journal Extractive Industries and Society on extractive communities that is co-edited by project PI Miles Larmer and […]