Rachel StrohmMore from #ASA2022 yesterday: very interesting #research from Dr Patience Mususa about how communities coped with the privatization of copper mines during structural adjustment in #Zambia. Mines had previously provided a parallel welfare state for workers with clinics and other social support, but this ended during the height of the HIV pandemic in the 1990s
Communities coped to some degree by switching to self-help models, especially unpaid community healthcare workers, but huge limits on what can be done when both private + state welfare collapse at the same time #ASA2022 #research #Zambia #socialpolicy
Here's Dr Mususa's book (https://nai.uu.se/news-and-events/news/2021-12-01-there-used-to-be-order-life-on-the-copperbelt-after-the-privatisation-of-the-zambia-consolidated-copper-mines.html) and an open access version of the thesis on which the book is based (https://open.uct.ac.za/bitstream/handle/11427/9291/thesis_hum_2014_mususa_pn.pdf?sequence=1) #ASA2022 #research #Zambia #socialpolicy
There Used to be Order: Life on the Copperbelt after the Privatisation of the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines - The Nordic Africa Institute
In this book, Patience Mususa considers social change in the Copperbelt region of Zambia following the privatization of the large state mining conglomerate, the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines (ZCCM), in the mid-1990s.
Mahriana Rofheart@rachelstrohm thanks for posting #ASA2022 stuff! Conference tweets were my favorite part of twitter, also I’m sad to not be at the conference, so thanks for assuaging my digital and in-person FOMO
@mrofheart Thanks for the kind words!