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Practice/Metis/Labour: Knowledge at Work?
This week, I was at the International Congress for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. It was colossal, and has had plenty of coverage in social media, so I won’t try and summarise the...
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Arriving in Zambia. Or, the Past of Another Country, Where They do Some...
It is a strange experience to have read so much about a place in its historical condition before seeing that place with your own eyes. You begin recognising its ghosts before you have encountered the...
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The material “Memory of the Nation”
This is where I sit while researching in Zambia, spending most of each day investigating the “memory of the nation”. At the end of those days, my hands are filthy from old ink and carbon paper, and...
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Scissors, Paper, Stone
This is the Geological Map of Northern Rhodesia the Republic of Zambia, from a collection in the National Archives of Zambia, Lusaka. It was compiled in 1959-60 in the Geological Survey, and then...
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Maps, boxes, and reels in the Copperbelt
The Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines archive is a private archive containing records relating to just about 100 years of copper mining in Zambia. I’ve been here this week in Ndola, in the Copperbelt,...
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“It seems like I disappeared because I became too still”
In an earlier blog post I suggested that paper itself has a different cultural and economic value in today’s Zambia than in the UK. A snapshot from another moment in my stay there has come to...
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Chiefs demand Boundary Maps
New historical loops and reorganising of thoughts as I discovered this newspaper article during my last week in Zambia. In a plea for means to avoid violence over rights to increasingly valuable...
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