Extraction, Global Commodity Trade, and Urban Development in Zambia's Northwestern Province: An Ethnography of Inequality and Interdependence

by Rita Kesselring

Rita Kesselring provides a deep, open access ethnographic account of wildly uneven, deeply interconnected development trajectories of Solwezi, a rapidly growing copper mining town in Zambia, and Zug, an increasingly important urban hub for metal trading firms in Switzerland. In so doing, she provides a valuable and compelling case study of the unequal interdependencies, both financial and personal, that global capitalism creates between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350454303
• ISBN13: 9781350454309
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"