Rita Kesselring is Associate Professor of Urban Studies at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Her academic work focuses on the intersections of political, economic, legal and urban anthropology. She is the author of Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa (2017).

Meticulously researched, Kesselring’s book maps the copper production network, connecting people, resources, and places. Her rich ethnography takes us from pits in one of Zambia’s copper mining towns to the heart and forces of extractive global capitalism in the global north. She tells a compelling story of relationships and structures of mutual but asymmetrical interdependence that sustain this global extractive industry and its profits. She makes visible the often invisible “Swiss connection”, the other end of global extractivism. Her message, while Zambian and Zug residents may not share a class position, they are tied together by, and embedded in the unsustainable and exploitative global extractives economic order. Acknowledging this interdependence can be the foundation of solidarity, and transnational joint action between the polity in Zambia and Zug.

• IntroductionChapter 1. Copper’s Promise from Solwezi to ZugChapter 2. The CouncilChapter 3. The HouseChapter 4. The Golf EstateChapter 5. Power and InfrastructureChapter 6. Trading InequalityConclusion: On Being ConcernedNotesReferencesIndex

Rita Kesselring is Associate Professor of Urban Studies at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Her academic work focuses on the intersections of political, economic, legal and urban anthropology. She is the author of Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa (2017).

Meticulously researched, Kesselring’s book maps the copper production network, connecting people, resources, and places. Her rich ethnography takes us from pits in one of Zambia’s copper mining towns to the heart and forces of extractive global capitalism in the global north. She tells a compelling story of relationships and structures of mutual but asymmetrical interdependence that sustain this global extractive industry and its profits. She makes visible the often invisible “Swiss connection”, the other end of global extractivism. Her message, while Zambian and Zug residents may not share a class position, they are tied together by, and embedded in the unsustainable and exploitative global extractives economic order. Acknowledging this interdependence can be the foundation of solidarity, and transnational joint action between the polity in Zambia and Zug.

• IntroductionChapter 1. Copper’s Promise from Solwezi to ZugChapter 2. The CouncilChapter 3. The HouseChapter 4. The Golf EstateChapter 5. Power and InfrastructureChapter 6. Trading InequalityConclusion: On Being ConcernedNotesReferencesIndex

Rita Kesselring is Associate Professor of Urban Studies at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Her academic work focuses on the intersections of political, economic, legal and urban anthropology. She is the author of Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa (2017).

Meticulously researched, Kesselring’s book maps the copper production network, connecting people, resources, and places. Her rich ethnography takes us from pits in one of Zambia’s copper mining towns to the heart and forces of extractive global capitalism in the global north. She tells a compelling story of relationships and structures of mutual but asymmetrical interdependence that sustain this global extractive industry and its profits. She makes visible the often invisible “Swiss connection”, the other end of global extractivism. Her message, while Zambian and Zug residents may not share a class position, they are tied together by, and embedded in the unsustainable and exploitative global extractives economic order. Acknowledging this interdependence can be the foundation of solidarity, and transnational joint action between the polity in Zambia and Zug.

• IntroductionChapter 1. Copper’s Promise from Solwezi to ZugChapter 2. The CouncilChapter 3. The HouseChapter 4. The Golf EstateChapter 5. Power and InfrastructureChapter 6. Trading InequalityConclusion: On Being ConcernedNotesReferencesIndex