Across the Copperbelt

MILES LARMER is Professor of African History, University of Oxford. ENID GUENE is a postdoctoral research fellow in African history at the University of Ghent, Belgium. BENOÎT HENRIET is Assistant Professor in History, Vrije Universiteit Brussels. IVA PESA is Assistant Professor in History, University of Groningen. ENID GUENE is a postdoctoral research fellow in African history at the University of Ghent, Belgium. RACHEL TAYLOR is Research Associate in the History of Haut Katanga (DRC), African Studies Centre, University of Oxford. BENOÎT HENRIET is Assistant Professor in History, Vrije Universiteit Brussels. MILES LARMER is Professor of African History, University of Oxford.

• Introduction - Enid Guene and Benoît Henriet and Miles Larmer and Iva Pesa and Rachel TaylorPART 1: MICRO-STUDIES OF URBAN LIFEBeyond Paternalism: Pluralising Copperbelt Histories - Iva Pesa and Benoît HenrietBeing a Child of the Mines: Youth Magazines and Comics in the Copperbelt - Enid GueneDivergence and Convergence on the Copperbelt: White Mineworkers in Comparative Perspective, 1911 - 63 - Duncan MoneyFootball on the Zambian and Katangese Copperbelts: Leisure and Fan Culture from the 1930s to the Present - Hikabwa D. ChipandeBeware the Mineral Narrative: The Histories of Solwezi Town and Kansanshi Mine, Northwestern Zambia - Rita KesselringPART 2: THE LOCAL COPPERBELT AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMYKingdoms and Associations: Copper's Changing Political Economy during the Nineteenth Century - David M. GordonOf Corporate Welfare Buildings and Private Initiative: Post-Paternalist Ruination and Renovation in a Former Zambian Mine Township - Christian StraubeFrom a Colonial to a Mineral Flow Regime: The Mineral Trade and the Inertia of Global Infrastructures in the Copperbelt - Hélène BlaszkiewiczHouses Built on Copper: The Environmental Impact of Current Mining Activities on "Old" and "New" Zambian Copperbelt Communities - Jennifer Chibamba ChansaPART 3: PRODUCING AND CONTESTING KNOWLEDGE OF URBAN SOCIETIES"The British, The French and even the Russians use these Methods": Psychology, Mental Testing and (Trans)Imperial Dynamics of Expertise Production in Late Colonial Congo - Amandine LauroHistorical Knowledge Production at the University of Lubumbashi (1956 - 2018) - Donatien Dibwe dia MwembuThe Decolonisation of Community Development in Haut Katanga and the Zambian Copperbelt, 1945 - 1990 - Miles Larmer and Rachel TaylorReimagining the Copperbelt as a Religious Space - Stephanie Lämmert