{"product_id":"expectations-of-modernity-9780520217027","title":"Expectations of Modernity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated. This title explores the social and cultural responses to this prolonged period of sharp economic decline.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ferguson is an astute analyst of ideologies of development and the misunderstandings they can generate.\" * Foreign Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\"Ferguson presents a set of stimulating and important theoretical ideas.\" * American Ethnologust *\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] remarkable, deeply satisfying book.\" * Journal of Asian and African Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"[Ferguson] has . . . exposed the need for a fresh set of intellectual resources to protect new generations from another set of false promises of development.\" * Canadian Journal of Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\"Ferguson stands as a strong voice against the modernization paradigm.\" * On Politics: Journal of the University of Victoria Undergraduates of Political Science *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of Tables\u003cbr\u003e List of Cases\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I. The Copperbelt in Theory\u003cbr\u003e From \"Emerging Africa\" to the Ethnography of Decline\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Expectations of Permanence\u003cbr\u003e Mobile Workers, Modernist Narratives, and the \"Full\u003cbr\u003e House\" of Urban-Rural Residential Strategies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Rural Connections, Urban Styles\u003cbr\u003e Theorizing Cultural Dualism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4· \"Back to the Land\"?\u003cbr\u003e The Micropolitical Economy of \"Return\" Migration\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Expectations of Domesticity\u003cbr\u003e Men, Women, and \"the Modern Family\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Asia in Miniature\u003cbr\u003e Signification, Noise, and Cosmopolitan Style\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Global Disconnect\u003cbr\u003e Abjection and the Aftermath of Modernism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Postscript: December 1998\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Mineworkers' Letters\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402808566103,"sku":"9780520217027","price":24.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520217027.jpg?v=1730481566","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/expectations-of-modernity-9780520217027","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}