After Corporate Paternalism

Material Renovation and Social Change in Times of Ruination
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-133-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 403 g

Reihe: Integration and Conflict Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Straube, Christian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Agrarsoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

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

Über Autor(innen)

Straube, Christian
Christian Straube is Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany. From 2014 to 2018, he was a researcher in the Department of Integration and Conflict. Since 2019, he is managing the China Programme at Stiftung Asienhaus in Cologne, Germany.