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Mining and African Urbanisation Population, Settlement and Welfare Trajectories
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 a distinct subset of industrial activity, involving artisanal and large-scale mining.
Case studies of a wide variety of countries with long historical experience of large-scale mining (South Africa, Ghana, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia and Botswana), as opposed to more recent experiences of artisanal mining (Mozambique, Tanzania, and Sierra Leone), reveal that the mining surge in some countries and the slow-down in others where mining was formerly dominant encompasses a wide range of urban outcomes. In view of the cyclical boom-and-bust nature of mining activity and the sector’s dependence upon finite resources and exposure to world market fluctuations, this book probes settlement patterns and welfare dimensions of urban change associated with African mining amidst an unprecedented spiral in global mineral prices.
This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.
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.
