Seeing the Copperbelt
Science, mining and colonial power in Northern Rhodesia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8942771 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tomas Frederiksen (0000-0002-6881-1411, University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Pages | 271-281 |
| Publication date | 2012-11-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geoforum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7185 • E-ISSN: 1872-9398 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.08.007 |
| OpenAlex | W2053778693 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 40 |
Colonialism · Empire · Mining engineering · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Prospecting · Sociology · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Geology · Law · Mining and Resource Management
Forging cartels. A transatlantic perspective on business collusion and the interwar copper industry (1918–1940)
Corporate Responses to Community Grievance
The Global Mining Cluster and Decoding Sustainable Mining
From Dearth to El Dorado
The Africa Mining Vision
Contested wealth
Between waste and profit
Genealogy of mining territories in the Atacama Desert
Large-scale mining, territories, and development
Extracting at the borders
Mining, Waste and Environmental Thought on the Central African Copperbelt, 1950-2000
Permanent precarity
Why do countries invest in geological investigations for minerals? A comparative analysis of contrasting outcomes in Ghana and Rwanda
Voluminous territorialisation
Whose underground? Entangled territorialization and mining cooperatives in eastern Congo’s gold frontier
Authorizing the “Natives”
Production of subterranean resources in the Atacama Desert
The future lies beneath
Territory, now in 3D
Contested subterranean territory
Toward Expanding Links Between Political Geography and African Studies
Destabilizing the science of soils
Pledging the future
A Volcanic Incident
Nature's government
Science and Empire
Neoliberal Environments
Lost Geographies of Power
Black Mineworkers in Central Africa
Labor and Capital on the African Copperbelt
Bursting the Limits of Time
Economic Independence and Zambian Copper. A Case Study of Foreign Investment
Black Mineworkers in Central Africa
Gentlemen and Geology
Introduction
The discovery of a vocation
Ordering the World for Europe
Producing vertical territory
Commercial Concessions and Politics During the Colonial Period the Role of the British South Africa Company in Northern Rhodesia 1890–1964
Experts and Expertise in Colonial Africa Reconsidered
Commodifying what nature
Geographies of science
Placing the View from Nowhere
Northern Visions
The Colonial World as Geological Metaphor
Exploration, cartography and the modernization of state power
Scientific Forest Conservation and the Statistical Picturing of Nature's Limits in the Progressive-Era United States
Foreign Devils, Finance and Informal Empire
Seeing Like a State
Expectations of Modernity
Seeing Like a StateHow Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Inside the Economy of Appearances
Everyday metaphors of power
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,85 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |