Across the Copperbelt – Urban & Social Change in Central Africa`s Borderland Communities

Introduction - Enid Guene and Benoît Henriet and Miles Larmer and Iva Pesa and Rachel Taylor PART 1: MICRO-STUDIES OF URBAN LIFE Beyond Paternalism: Pluralising Copperbelt Histories - Iva Pesa and Benoît Henriet Being a Child of the Mines: Youth Magazines and Comics in the Copperbelt - Enid Guene Divergence and Convergence on the Copperbelt: White Mineworkers in Comparative Perspective, 1911 - 63 - Duncan Money Football on the Zambian and Katangese Copperbelts: Leisure and Fan Culture from the 1930s to the Present - Hikabwa D. Chipande Beware the Mineral Narrative: The Histories of Solwezi Town and Kansanshi Mine, Northwestern Zambia - Rita Kesselring PART 2: THE LOCAL COPPERBELT AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Kingdoms and Associations: Copper's Changing Political Economy during the Nineteenth Century - David M. Gordon Of Corporate Welfare Buildings and Private Initiative: Post-Paternalist Ruination and Renovation in a Former Zambian Mine Township - Christian Straube From a Colonial to a Mineral Flow Regime: The Mineral Trade and the Inertia of Global Infrastructures in the Copperbelt - Hélène Blaszkiewicz Houses Built on Copper: The Environmental Impact of Current Mining Activities on "Old" and "New" Zambian Copperbelt Communities - Jennifer Chibamba Chansa PART 3: PRODUCING AND CONTESTING KNOWLEDGE OF URBAN SOCIETIES "The British, The French and even the Russians use these Methods": Psychology, Mental Testing and (Trans)Imperial Dynamics of Expertise Production in Late Colonial Congo - Amandine Lauro Historical Knowledge Production at the University of Lubumbashi (1956 - 2018) - Donatien Dibwe dia Mwembu The Decolonisation of Community Development in Haut Katanga and the Zambian Copperbelt, 1945 - 1990 - Miles Larmer and Rachel Taylor Reimagining the Copperbelt as a Religious Space - Stephanie Lämmert