Zambia, Mining, and Neoliberalism: Boom and Bust on the Globalized Copperbelt [Hardcover]

This book paints a vivid picture of Zambia's experience riding the copper price rollercoaster. It brings together the best of recent research on Zambia's mining industry from eminent scholars in history, geography, anthropology, politics, sociology and economics. The authors discuss how aid donors pressed Zambia to privatize its key industry and how multinational mining houses took advantage of tax-breaks and lax regulation. It considers the opportunities and dangers presented by Chinese investment, how both companies and the Zambian state responded to dramatic instabilities in global commodity markets since 2004, and how frustration with the courting of mining multinationals has led to the rise of populist opposition. This detailed study of a key industry in a poor Central African state tells us a great deal about the unstable nature and uneven impacts of the whole global economic system.Boom and bust on the Zambian Copperbelt; A.Fraser Historical Perspectives on Zambia's Mining Booms and Busts; M.Larmer The Economics of the Copper Price Boom in Zambia; C.S.Adam ?& A.M.Simpasa From Boom to Bust: Diversity and Regulation in Zambia's Privatised Copper Sector; D.Haglund Raw Encounters: Chinese Managers, African Workers and the Politics of Casualization in Africa's Chinese Enclaves; C.Kwan Lee African Miners and Shape Shifting Flight Capital: The Case of Baluba Luanshya; J.Gewald? & S.Soeters Contesting Illegality: Women in the Informal Copper Business; P.Mususa The Mining Boom, Capital and Chiefs in the 'New Copperbelt'; R.Negi Mining, Dispossession and Transformation in Africa; R.Bush

'The value of this volume is that it goes beyond an analysis of the institutions and ideologies that de-industrialized the Zambian economy and begins to explore the possibilities of an alternative.' African Affairs

The scholarly research that has gone into this book shows the critical importance for Africa to secure control over both its natural resourls5