Zambia, Mining, and Neoliberalism: Boom and Bust on the Globalized Copperbelt (Africa Connects)

This Book Aims To Understand Zambia's Renowned Copperbelt Region Within A Broad Historical Context And Revive The Tradition Of Scholarship That Places Zambian Experiences Within A Global Perspective--provided By Publisher. 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--provided By Publisher. Boom And Bust On The Zambian Copperbelt / Alastair Fraser -- Historical Perspectives On Zambia's Mining Booms And Busts / Miles Larmer -- The Economics Of The Copper Price Boom In Zambia / Christopher S. Adam And Anthony M. Simpasa -- From Boom To Bust: Diversity And Regulation In Zambia's Privatised Copper Sector / Dan Haglund -- Raw Encounters: Chinese Managers, African Workers And The Politics Of Casualization In Africa's Chinese Enclaves / Ching Kwan Lee -- African Miners And Shape Shifting Flight Capital: The Case Of Baluba Luanshya / Jan/bart Gewald And Sebastiaan Soeters -- Contesting Illegality: Women In The Informal Copper Business / Patience Mususa -- The Mining Boom, Capital And Chiefs In The 'new Copperbelt' / Rohit Negi -- Mining, Dispossession And Transformation In Africa / Ray Bush. Edited By Alastair Fraser And Miles Larmer. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Abbreviations......Page 14 Map of Zambia......Page 17 International Copper Prices—Figures......Page 18 Contributors......Page 20 1 Introduction: Boom and Bust on the Zambian Copperbelt......Page 24 2 Historical Perspectives on Zambia's Mining Booms and Busts......Page 54 3 The Economics of the Copper Price Boom in Zambia......Page 82 4 From Boom to Bust: Diversity and Regulation in Zambia's Privatized Copper Sector......Page 114 5 Raw Encounters: Chinese Managers, African Workers, and the Politics of Casualization in Africa's Chinese Enclaves......Page 150 6 African Miners and Shape-Shifting Capital Flight: The Case of Luanshya/Baluba......Page 178 7 Contesting Illegality: Women in the Informal Copper Business......Page 208 8 The Mining Boom, Capital, and Chiefs in the "New Copperbelt"......Page 232 9 Conclusion: Mining, Dispossession, and Transformation in Africa......Page 260 Bibliography......Page 292 Index......Page 310