Chapter 1 Prologue: The Miner's World of Work Chapter 2 Chapter One: Stories We Tell Ourselves Chapter 3 Chapter Two: Research Methods Chapter 4 Chapter Three: Public Stories of Zambia's Mining History Chapter 5 Chapter Four: Private Stories of Zambia's Mining History Chapter 6 Chapter Five: "The Spirits are Not Happy:" How Zambians Knew Things Were Not Well Chapter 7 Chapter Six: "Jealousy is There:" Accounting for Disparity, Ensuring Success Chapter 8 Chapter Seven: "We are not Slaves:" The Pain and Power of Zambian Identity Chapter 9 Chapter Eight: "They are Always Suspecting Us:" Expatriate Experiences of the Copperbelt Chapter 10 Chapter Nine: Conclusion
Elizabeth C. Parsons is lecturer and co-director of contextual education at Boston University School of Theology.
It takes a patient listener to write these stories on how local
people experience development beyond its material properties.
Beautifully written, Parsons' book will surely help development
planners to reflect on the cultural dimensions of their work.
*Dorothea Hilhorst, Wageningen University*
This book tells a compelling story of an encounter, or rather a
missed encounter, between two cosmologies: that of Western views of
development and progress and of the Zambians and their
understanding and sense of the world in which they live. The
author's detailed fieldwork provides overwhelming evidence that
'development' can only start with acknowledging one's own
worldviews and that of others. Development is not making the other
in one's own image. I hope that the development establishment will
listen.
*Séverine Deneulin, author of Religion in Development: Rewriting
the Secular Script*
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