| Titre |
Living for the City : Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt |
| Type de publication |
Livre |
| Langue principale de la publication |
anglais |
| Année de publication |
2021
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| Auteur |
Miles LARMER
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| Éditeur |
Cambridge university press
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| Genre |
essai - étude
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| Pays d'édition |
Royaume-Uni
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| ISBN (Forme EAN-13) |
9781108973120
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| DOI |
ttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781108973120
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| URL |
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/living-for-the-city/29E9C8673D3BC6498AEFA2F297EF0AE5
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| Résumé/Présentation |
"a social history of the Central African Copperbelt, considered as a single region encompassing the neighbouring mining regions of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Haut Katanga and Zambian Copperbelt mine towns have been understood as the vanguard of urban 'modernity' in Africa. Observers found in these towns new African communities that were experiencing what they wrongly understood as a transition from rural 'traditional' society – stable, superstitious and agricultural – to an urban existence characterised by industrial work discipline, the money economy and conspicuous consumption, Christianity, and nuclear families headed by male breadwinners supported by domesticated housewives. [...]"
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| Référence complète |
Larmer, Miles. Living for the City : Social Change and Knowledge Production in the Central African Copperbelt. Cambridge University Press, 2021
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