Expectations of modernity : myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian Copperbelt
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Expectations of modernity : myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian Copperbelt
(Perspectives on Southern Africa, 57)
University of California Press, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-320) and index
内容説明・目次
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ISBN 9780520217010
内容説明
Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s, however, the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated, leaving workers scrambling to get by. "Expectations of Modernity" explores the social and cultural responses to this prolonged period of sharp economic decline. Focusing on the experiences of mineworkers in the Copperbelt region, James Ferguson traces the failure of standard narratives of urbanization and social change to make sense of the Copperbelt's recent history. He instead develops alternative analytic tools appropriate for an "ethnography of decline."Ferguson shows how the Zambian copper workers understand their own experience of social, cultural, and economic "advance" and "decline." Ferguson's ethnographic study transports us into their lives - the dynamics of their relations with family and friends, as well as copper companies and government agencies.
Theoretically sophisticated and vividly written, "Expectations of Modernity" will appeal not only to those interested in Africa today, but to anyone contemplating the illusory successes of today's globalizing economy.
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: pbk ISBN 9780520217027
内容説明
Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s, however, the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated, leaving workers scrambling to get by. "Expectations of Modernity" explores the social and cultural responses to this prolonged period of sharp economic decline. Focusing on the experiences of mineworkers in the Copperbelt region, James Ferguson traces the failure of standard narratives of urbanization and social change to make sense of the Copperbelt's recent history. He instead develops alternative analytic tools appropriate for an 'ethnography of decline'. Ferguson shows how the Zambian copper workers understand their own experience of social, cultural, and economic 'advance' and 'decline'. Ferguson's ethnographic study transports us into their lives - the dynamics of their relations with family and friends, as well as copper companies and government agencies.
Theoretically sophisticated and vividly written, "Expectations of Modernity" will appeal not only to those interested in Africa today, but to anyone contemplating the illusory successes of today's globalizing economy.
目次
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
List of Cases
Acknowledgments
I. The Copperbelt in Theory
From "Emerging Africa" to the Ethnography of Decline
2. Expectations of Permanence
Mobile Workers, Modernist Narratives, and the "Full
House" of Urban-Rural Residential Strategies
3. Rural Connections, Urban Styles
Theorizing Cultural Dualism
4* "Back to the Land"?
The Micropolitical Economy of "Return" Migration
5. Expectations of Domesticity
Men, Women, and "the Modern Family"
6. Asia in Miniature
Signification, Noise, and Cosmopolitan Style
7. Global Disconnect
Abjection and the Aftermath of Modernism
Postscript: December 1998
Appendix: Mineworkers' Letters
Notes
References
Index
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