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Videos - 17.09.2025 - 14:00 

How Swiss prosperity is linked to copper mining in Zambia

What connects the prosperous, orderly and peaceful canton of Zug in Switzerland with the dusty, chaotic and poverty-stricken mining town of Solwezi in Zambia? In this video, Prof. Dr. Rita Kesselring from the University of St. Gallen highlights the mutual economic and social dependencies and parallels between these two very different places.
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Prof. Dr. Rita Kesselring received the Walter Enggist Research Award by the Canton of Thurgau for her book, which was written after a two-year research stay in Zambia.

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