Rainforest Capitalism : Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession

Hendriks, Thomas

doi:10.1215/9781478022473

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Hendriks, Thomas

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English

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Résumé

Thomas Hendriks examines the rowdy environment of industrial timber production in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to theorize the social, racial, and gender power dynamics of capitalist extraction.

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https://doab-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12854/148327

Keywords

Capitalism; Logging; Power; Corporations; Postcritical ethnography; Johannes Fabian; Democratic Republic of Congo; tree felling; Feminism; Postcritique; Ecstasis; Extraction; Timber; fieldwork; reparative writing; timber sector; racialized pay gaps; daywork; selective felling; cartography; industrial logging; rubber; palm oil; cotton; coercive labor recruitment; compulsory cultivation; Corporate Social Responsibility; Development; Smuggling; James Ferguson; 2002 Forest Code; labor compounds; logging concession; critical whiteness studies; capitalist extraction; occult economy; masculinity; misogyny; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history; thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1H Africa::1HF Sub-Saharan Africa::1HFJ Central Africa