The agenda is posted below. Please do feel free to publicise this event to all of your networks and contacts. You can register to attend at:
http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/research/conferences/
Mine Watch Zambia Conference
Politics, economy, society, ecology and investment in Zambia
Fri 19 - Sat 20 September 2008
Seminar Room G - Department of Politics and International Relations, Manor Road, Oxford Convened by Alastair Fraser: alastair.fraser@politics.ox.ac.uk/ www.minewatchzambia.com
FRIDAY 19 SEPTEMBER
10:30am Registration
11:00am PANEL 1: INTRODUCTION – LOCAL IMPACTS, GLOBAL RELEVANCE
Professor John Lungu: Economics and Management, Copperbelt University: The politics of reforming Zambia’s mining tax regime
Chair: Alastair Fraser, Politics and International Relations, Oxford
12:30pm Lunch
13:30pm PANEL 2: THE MINING BOOM IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Dr Miles Larmer, History, University of Sheffield: The Political Economy of Two Copperbelt Mining Booms
Tomas Frederiksen, Environment and Development, University of Manchester:The Spatial Politics of Mining on the Zambian Copperbelt 1900-2008
Chair: Dr Jan-Bart Gewald, History, Africa Studies Centre, University of Leiden
15:00pm Coffee
15:15pm PANEL 3: THE MINING BOOM IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT
Dr Marja Hinfelaar, National Archives of Zambia: “Where Mammon Reigns": The Roman Catholic Church's response to industrialization in Northern Rhodesia's Copperbelt, 1930s-1960s
Rohit Negi, Geography, Ohio State University: ‘We are the implementers of development’: Chiefs, Capital, and Politics in Solwezi
Chair: Dr Tom Young, African Politics, SOAS
16:45pm- 18:15pm PANEL 4: INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGNS AND GRASSROOTS RESISTANCE
Abi Dymond, Policy Officer, SCIAF: The impact of local and global NGO campaigns on Zambian Government mining policy
Simon Chase, Policy Officer, ACTSA: Vedanta/KCM: The responses of a multinational to popular and international campaigns
Rozemarijn Apotheker, International Development, University of Amsterdam: Mineworker perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility and the tax debate
Leonie Ratty, Development Studies, SOAS: Mineworkers, Democracy and the rise of populism in Zambia
Chair: Professor James Scarritt, Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
18:30pm Conference Dinner , The High Table, Eastgate Hotel, High Street
SATURDAY 20 SEPTEMBER
9:15am CHINA IN ZAMBIA 1: ATTRACTING AND REGULATING INVESTMENT
Professor Ching Kwan Lee, Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles: Out of Precariousness: Politics of Casualization in Chinese Enclaves in Zambia and Tanzania
Dan Haglund, Economics and International Development, University of Bath: Regulating FDI in weak African states: a case study of Chinese copper mining in Zambia
Dr Peter Kragelund, Trade and Development, Danish Institute for International Studies Knocking on a wide open door. Chinese investment in Zambia, and responses to it
Chair: Dr Lyn Shumaker, History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester
11:00am Coffee
11:15am CHINA IN ZAMBIA 2: LABOUR AND CASUALISATION
Jonathan Elliot, Independent Filmmaker, Elliot Productions: A short video on conditions inside Chambishi plant and the mining tax debate
Janie Whitlock, African Studies, University of Oxford:Digging for Prosperity: Mining and Labour practices in Chambishi, Zambia
Andrew Brooks, Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London: Chinese Capital Investment, Labour Relations and the Production of Meaning at Zambia-China Mulungushi Textiles
Chair: Dr Adrienne LeBas, Politics, University of Oxford
12:45am Lunch
13:45pm CHINA IN ZAMBIA 3: MANAGING TRADE
Jacqeline Musiitwa, Central Michigan University: An evaluation of the China-Zambia economic and trade cooperation zone
Colin Groshong, Comparative Government, University of Oxford: The local politics of the new trade co-operation zone
Hugo Knoppert, Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, University of Leiden: From ‘Made in China’ to Sold in Zambia: The influx of Chinese products in Zambia
Chair: Dr Nic Cheeseman, Politics, University of Oxford
15:15pm Coffee
15:30pm CONCLUSION: AFTER LEVY - MINING IN ZAMBIA’S POLITICAL ECONOMY
Alastair Fraser, Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford Back to the future? Mining, planning, populism and development strategy
Professor Oliver Saasa, International Economic Relations, Premier Consult Ltd Managing the boom: impacts on state and national developmental strategy
Chair: Professor Jeremy Gould, Development Studies, University of Helsinki 17:00 Ends
REGISTRATION: Participants will be asked to contribute £25 to cover catering costs. (students/unwaged £15) Register online at: http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/research/conferences. Unfortunately no support is available for travel or accommodation costs of participants. More information on both is overleaf.
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