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Living for the City provides a comprehensive social history of the Central African Copperbelt, one of the world’s most important mining regions. Miles Larmer explores how urban communities in Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo developed distinctive forms of knowledge production, cultural expression, and political consciousness throughout the twentieth century.
The book examines the emergence of intellectual traditions, labor movements, and social change in mining cities, analyzing how workers, intellectuals, and ordinary citizens negotiated colonial rule, independence, and post-colonial challenges. Larmer demonstrates how the Copperbelt became a crucible of social innovation, where new forms of identity, education, and political thought developed alongside industrial transformation.
By centering the experiences and ideas of Copperbelt residents, this work challenges conventional narratives of African history and offers fresh perspectives on urbanization, class formation, and the production of knowledge in the Global South.
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