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Record Nr.

UNINA9910545200703321

Autore

Straube Christian

Titolo

After Corporate Paternalism : Material Renovation and Social Change in Times of Ruination

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

9781800731349

1800731345

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (167 pages)

Collana

Integration and Conflict Studies ; ; v.24

Disciplina

303.4

Soggetti

Community centers - Social aspects - Zambia - Mpatamatu

Copper industry and trade - Privatization - Social aspects - Zambia - Mpatamatu

Copper miners - Zambia - Mpatamatu - Social conditions

Downsizing of organizations - Social aspects - Zambia - Mpatamatu

Social change - Zambia - Mpatamatu

Social responsibility of business - Zambia - Mpatamatu

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social

Mpatamatu (Zambia) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction. Things Fall Apart -- Chapter 1. Of Company and Government -- Chapter 2. Of Men and Women -- Chapter 3. Of Miners and Teachers -- Chapter 4. Of Miners and Preachers -- Conclusion. Things Reassembled -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this ethnographic study of post-paternalist ruination and renovation, Christian Straube explores social change at the intersection of material decay and social disconnection in the former mine township Mpatamatu of Luanshya, one of the oldest mining towns on the Zambian Copperbelt. Touching on topics including industrial history, colonial town planning, social control and materiality, gender relations and neoliberal structural change, After Corporate Paternalism offers unique insights into how people reappropriate former corporate spaces and



transform them into personal projects of renovation, fundamentally changing the characteristics of their community.