Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt

From: Journal of Third World Studies | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: Murdoch, Norman H | Copyright information

Ferguson, James. Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. 330pp.

James Ferguson investigates the problem of what happens when an economic downturn withdraws the expectation of urban life and all that is entailed in the idea of "modernity" in a developing country such as Zambia was in the 1960s and 1970s? His answer is that there are major social and personal dislocations that occur in a mo...

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