Expectations of Modernity, 1st Edition
Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt
$48.79
- Paperback
343 pages
- Release Date
30 September 1999
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780520217027 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0520217020 |
| Author: | James Ferguson |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 343 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 30 September 1999 |
| Weight: | 544g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Perspectives on Southern Africa |
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Critics Review
“Ferguson is an astute analyst of ideologies of development and the misunderstandings they can generate.”
“Ferguson is an astute analyst of ideologies of development and the misunderstandings they can generate.” * Foreign Affairs *“Ferguson presents a set of stimulating and important theoretical ideas.” * American Ethnologust *”[A] remarkable, deeply satisfying book.” * Journal of Asian and African Studies *”[Ferguson] has … exposed the need for a fresh set of intellectual resources to protect new generations from another set of false promises of development.” * Canadian Journal of Sociology *“Ferguson stands as a strong voice against the modernization paradigm.” * On Politics: Journal of the University of Victoria Undergraduates of Political Science *
About The Author
James Ferguson
James Ferguson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.
He is 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 (1997) and Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology (1997).
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