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Expectations of Modernity

Paperback • 1999 • English

Expectations of Modernity

By James Ferguson

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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...Show more

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ISBN

9780520217027

Publisher

University of California Press

Published year

1999

Language

English

Original title

Expectations of Modernity

Format

Paperback

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