Extraction, Global Commodity Trade, and Urban Development in Zambia's Northwestern Province: An Ethnography of Inequality and Interdependence

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Title:	Extraction, Global Commodity Trade, and Urban Development in Zambia's Northwestern Province: An Ethnography of Inequality and Interdependence
Author:	Kesselring, Rita
Year:	2025
Pages:	208
Language:	English
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:	9781350454309; 9781350454323
Geographic terms:	Zambia Switzerland
Subjects:	copper mining capitalism North-South relations international relations urban development
External link:	https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350454323
Abstract:	The author provides a deep, open access ethnographic account of wildly uneven, deeply interconnected development trajectories of Solwezi, a rapidly growing copper mining town in Zambia, and Zug, an increasingly important urban hub for metal trading firms in Switzerland. In so doing, she provides a valuable and compelling case study of the unequal interdependencies, both financial and personal, that global capitalism creates between towns and cities in the Global North and Global South, all of which suggests new ways of fighting for more equitable relationships.