African Miners and Shape-Shifting Capital Flight: The Case of Luanshya/Baluba

Gewald, Jan–Bart; Soeters, Sebastiaan

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“…This was not a transparent process, and was dogged with allegations of corruption, which, in the end, besieged Chiluba's administration (Van Donge 2008). In the case of the sale of the Luanshya mines, these dodgy dealings in subsequent years served to obscure ownership of the mines and had a devastating and destabilising effect on the residents of the town (Gewald and Soeters 2010).…”

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Mining, welfare and urbanisation: the wavering urban character of Zambia's Copperbelt

Mususa

2012

Journal of Contemporary African Studies

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Section: Privatisation Policy á 1995 Onwardsmentioning

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Mining, welfare and urbanisation: the wavering urban character of Zambia's Copperbelt

Mususa

2012

Journal of Contemporary African Studies

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“…On the other side of the border, copper deposits were discovered at an early stage, but the copper content of the oxide ore on the surface was low in comparison to that found in Congolese mines. Although a few companies developed mines in Northern Rhodesia before the 1920s, production was fitful due to technical challenges and high costs (Bancroft 1961;Gann 1969;Henderson 1972;Cunningham 1981;Frederiksen 2010). It was not until the 1920s when substantial exploration took place and sulphide reserves were discovered in Northern Rhodesia, attracting South African, American and, to a lesser extent, British capital and expertise.…”

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Inside mining capitalism: The micropolitics of work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts

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2022

African Affairs

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The project received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement n° 646802). The ideas developed in this work reflect the authors' views alone. The ERC is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it containsA catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library ISBN 978-1-84701-286-9 (James Currey paperback) ISBN 978-1-80010-318-4 (James Currey ePDF)The publisher has no responsibility for the continued existence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate Cover image: Workers washing copper plates in a solvent extraction and electrowinning plant (photograph © Héritier Amonda

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“…The mining boom since the mid-2000s has brought new forms of 'shape-shifting' capital to the Central African Copperbelt (Gewald & Soeters, 2010). Whilst these certainly take a neo-liberal form, this is arguably reflective of the same economic considerations that influenced the shift to stabilisation in the mid-twentieth century: contemporary mining companies, able to sustain operations with a far smaller workforce than their predecessors, calculate that they can shift the cost of reproduction onto their workers and the state, but still find themselves resisting demands by copperbelt communities, expressed in various ways, to take responsibility for the social and, increasingly, the environmental effects of their operations (Fraser & Larmer, 2010;Rubbers, 2010Rubbers, , 2013.…”

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Permanent precarity: capital and labour in the Central African copperbelt

Larmer

2017

Labor History

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This article provides a new history of mine capital and labour in the 'Central African Copperbelt'-the cross-border mining region of the Zambian copperbelt and Haut Katanga in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It doing so, it seeks to overcome the limitations of earlier structurally minded analysis rooted in modernist notions regarding the transformative capacity of mining capital and a 'new' African working class. Building on post-structuralist challenges to such assumptions, the article demonstrates the precarity, unevenness and uncertainty of the actually existing copperbelt economy and society. The comparison of the two copperbelt regions enables consideration of differential outcomes as a way of rethinking apparent inevitabilities. Analysis of how ideas about these mining societies were generated and circulated helps explain how dominant ways of understanding copperbelt capital and labour relations became established and continue to inform nostalgia for a 'golden age' of mining-fuelled prosperity at odds with historical reality.

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African Miners and Shape-Shifting Capital Flight: The Case of Luanshya/Baluba

Cited by 7 publications

References 6 publications

Mining, welfare and urbanisation: the wavering urban character of Zambia's Copperbelt

Mining, welfare and urbanisation: the wavering urban character of Zambia's Copperbelt

Inside mining capitalism: The micropolitics of work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts

Permanent precarity: capital and labour in the Central African copperbelt

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