Ben Radley

Disrupted Development in the Congo

The Fragile Foundations of the African Mining Consensus

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Produktbeschreibung

Through a detailed case study of gold mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Disrupted Development in the Congo reveals the fragile foundations on which the African Mining Consensus rests. It documents how foreign mining corporations in the Congo have been prone to mismanagement and implicated in fuelling conflict and violence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780192849052
• ISBN-10: 0192849050
• Artikelnr.: 68473777

Autorenporträt

Ben Radley is a Lecturer in International Development at the University of Bath. He earned a PhD (cum laude) in Development Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague. His research centres on processes of economic transformation in Central Africa, with a focus on labour dynamics and the role played by Northern corporations. He is an affiliated member of Centre d'Expertise en Gestion Minière at the Catholic University of Bukavu, and sits on the editorial board of Review of African Political Economy.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Disrupted development in the Congo
2: The return and spread of the transnational mining corporation in the African periphery
3: Foreign mining corporations on trial
4: Disarticulation and alienation
5: Wage polarization and labour fragmentation
6: Dynamic domestic accumulation
7: Marginalization and conflict
8: The fragile foundations of the African Mining Consensus