Expectations of Modernity

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Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt

By James Ferguson

Series: Perspectives on Southern Africa

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Expectations of Modernity examines the socio-economic decline in Zambia's Copperbelt region from the 1970s onward. James Ferguson focuses on the experiences of mineworkers to challenge typical narratives of urbanisation and development, proposing new analytic tools suited to understanding an "ethnography of decline."
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Suitable for readers interested in African studies, development theory, urban sociology, and ethnographic research.

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 the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated. This book explores the social and cultural responses to this prolonged period of sharp economic decline.

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Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fuelled 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 urbanisation and social change to make sense of the Copperbelt's recent history. He instead develops alternative analytic tools appropriate for an "ethnography of decline".

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Praised as "an astute analyst of ideologies of development" by Foreign Affairs, Ferguson presents "stimulating and important theoretical ideas" (American Ethnologist) and delivers a "remarkable, deeply satisfying book" (Journal of Asian and African Studies). Reviews highlight his challenge to the modernisation paradigm and call for fresh intellectual approaches to development (Canadian Journal of Sociology, On Politics).

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ISBN: 9780520217027

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 October 1999

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 7 figures, 7 tables, 3 maps.

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 544g

Pages: 343

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African History Education & Reference Finance & Investment History & Archaeology History & Military James Ferguson Non-Fiction Science & Nature Series: Perspectives on Southern Africa

About the Author

James Ferguson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho (1990). He is also coeditor, with Akhil Gupta, of Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science (California, 1997) and Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology (1997).

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