Topping Up
Life Amidst Hardship and Death on the Copperbelt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2137695 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patience Mususa (0000-0002-8416-2642, University of Cape Town, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 304-322 |
| Publication date | 2012-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-0184 • E-ISSN: 1469-2872 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00020184.2012.702971 |
| OpenAlex | W1977325843 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 38 |
Residents of the Zambian Copperbelt town Luanshya have experienced great hardship since the widespread implementation of structural adjustment policies in the mid-1990s, which saw the privatisation of the state mining conglomerate the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines (ZCCM) that was the mainstay of the region's economy. Life, as portrayed in contemporary Zambian popular music, has become a precarious and continuous practice of trying to live and make a living. The past is a nostalgic experience that underlies the present and the future is too frightening to contemplate. Implicated in the uncertainty of the future, that is, the possibility of living a long and full life is the body. The body is perceived through the sensorial aspects of living within a difficult environment as letting one down and at the same time offering an inalienable corporeal tool through which one can continue the activity of living. Some make it, others do not, what is valorised is the ability to pick up and go on trying
Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Sociology · Standard of living · State (computer science · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · History · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |