1st Edition

Mining and African Urbanisation Population, Settlement and Welfare Trajectories

Edited By Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Daniel F MacKinnon Copyright 2013
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

Juxtaposing literatures on urbanisation and mining at a time when small-scale artisanal as well as large-scale mining operations are transforming many African economies, this book focuses on the interplay of Sub-Saharan Africa mining and urbanisation in the context of global shifts in capital and labour flows. Classically, urbanisation has been identified with industrial expansion, but mining is... Read more

1. Mining and Urbanisation: Development and Welfare Dynamics  Deborah Fahy Bryceson & Daniel MacKinnon, University of Glasgow

2. Debates about Mining, Migration, and Urbanisation in Southern Africa in the Twentieth Century  Hugh Macmillan, University of Oxford

3. Fortress of Gold: Johannesburg’s Urban Growth, Labour Control and Residential Exclusion  Sizwe Timothy Phakathi, Johannesburg, South Africa

4. Mining, Welfare and Urbanisation: Tracing the Changing Urban Character of Zambia’s Copperbelt  Patience Mususa, University of Cape Town

5. Of Prosperity, Ghost Towns and Havens: Mining and Urbanisation in Zimbabwe  Amin Y. Kamete, Bangor University

6. Dissecting Botswana’s Mining Path to Urbanisation and Poverty Elimination  Thando Gwebu, University of Botswana

7. From Colonialism to the New Mining Boom: Mining, Urbanisation and Development in Mozambique  Charlotte Allen & Vibe Johnsen, Maputo

8. Unearthing Treasure or Trouble? Mining as an Impetus to Urbanisation in Tanzania  Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Jesper Bosse Jønsson & Mike Shand, University of Glasgow & Crispin Kinabo, University of Dar es Salaam

9. Exploring the Connections: Mining and Urbanisation in Ghana  Katherine V. Gough, Loughborough University & Paul W.K. Yankson, University of Ghana

10. Tales of Two Cities: Urbanisation Processes in the Diamond and Gold Cities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo  Patience Kabamba, University of Notre Dame, USA

11. Diamond Mining Towns in Lunda: Angola’s Planned and Unplanned Urban Growth  Cristina U Rodrigues & Ana Paula Tavares, African Studies Centre, Lisbon

12. Diamond Mining, Urbanisation and Social Transformation in Sierra Leone  Roy Maconachie, University of Bath

Biography

Deborah Fahy Bryceson is a Reader in Urban Studies at the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK.

Daniel MacKinnon is a Senior Research Fellow in Urban Studies at the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK.