At an extractive pace: Conflicting temporalities in a resettlement process in Solwezi, Zambia

Adopting Gell, 1992Alfred Gell's (1992) epistemology of time, I show how the implementation of a temporal regime on the environment is one aspect of how mining companies try to disentangle themselves from the economy and politics of their host country. This implementation often has the opposite effect on the local population.