Zambia, Mining, and Neoliberalism [electronic resource] : Boom and Bust on the Globalized Copperbelt /
Fraser, A.editor.
Larmer, M.editor.
This book paints a vivid picture of Zambia's experience riding the copper price rollercoaster. It brings together the best of recent research on Zambia's mining industry from eminent scholars in history, geography, anthropology, politics, sociology and economics. The authors discuss how aid donors pressed Zambia to privatize its key industry and how multinational mining houses took advantage of tax-breaks and lax regulation. It considers the opportunities and dangers presented by Chinese investment, how both companies and the Zambian state responded to dramatic instabilities in global commodity markets since 2004, and how frustration with the courting of mining multinationals has led to the rise of populist opposition. This detailed study of a key industry in a poor Central African state tells us a great deal about the unstable nature and uneven impacts of the whole global economic system.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Map of Zambia; International Copper Prices-Figures; Contributors; 1 Introduction: Boom and Bust on the Zambian Copperbelt; 2 Historical Perspectives on Zambia's Mining Booms and Busts; 3 The Economics of the Copper Price Boom in Zambia; 4 From Boom to Bust: Diversity and Regulation in Zambia's Privatized Copper Sector; 5 Raw Encounters: Chinese Managers, African Workers, and the Politics of Casualization in Africa's Chinese Enclaves; 6 African Miners and Shape-Shifting Capital Flight: The Case of Luanshya/Baluba
7 Contesting Illegality: Women in the Informal Copper Business8 The Mining Boom, Capital, and Chiefs in the ""New Copperbelt""; 9 Conclusion: Mining, Dispossession, and Transformation in Africa; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book paints a vivid picture of Zambia's experience riding the copper price rollercoaster. It brings together the best of recent research on Zambia's mining industry from eminent scholars in history, geography, anthropology, politics, sociology and economics. The authors discuss how aid donors pressed Zambia to privatize its key industry and how multinational mining houses took advantage of tax-breaks and lax regulation. It considers the opportunities and dangers presented by Chinese investment, how both companies and the Zambian state responded to dramatic instabilities in global commodity markets since 2004, and how frustration with the courting of mining multinationals has led to the rise of populist opposition. This detailed study of a key industry in a poor Central African state tells us a great deal about the unstable nature and uneven impacts of the whole global economic system.
Ethnology-Africa.
Business.
Management science.
Anthropology.
Sociology.
Economic development.
Cultural studies.
African Culture.
Business and Management, general.
Anthropology.
Sociology, general.
Development Studies.
Cultural Studies.