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Disrupted development in the Congo : the fragile foundations of the African Mining Consensus / Ben Radley

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  • Disrupted development in the Congo : the fragile foundations of the African Mining Consensus / Ben Radley
  • Oxford New York (N.Y.) : Oxford University press
  • C 2023
  • 1 vol. (XIV-194 p.) : ill., graph., tabl. ; 24 cm
  • Critical frontiers of theory, research, and policy in international development studies
  • 0-19-284905-0
  • 978-0-1928-4905-2
  • 9780192849052 rel.
  • Critical frontiers of theory, research, and policy in international development studies Andrew Fischer, Uma Kothari, and Giles Mohan Oxford Oxford University Press 2017 25cm
  • 338.209 6
  • Bibliogr. p. [177]-189. Index
  • Acknowledgements Contents List of figures List of tables List of acronyms Note to the reader Epigraph 1 Disrupted development in the Congo 1.1 Aims and contributions 1.2 The African Mining Consensus 1.3 Recentring the periphery 1.4 The argument 1.5 Outline of the book and methods 2 The return and spread of the transnational mining corporation in the African periphery 2.1 Stage one: Blame the African state 2.2 Stage two: Roll out the corporation 2.3 Stage three: Displace African miners 3 Foreign mining corporations on trial 3.1 SOMINKI (1976-1997) 3.2 Banro (1995-2019) 3.3 Enrich the centre, impoverish the periphery 4 Disarticulation and alienation 4.1 Assimilation to enclavity 4.2 Stimulus to Northern economies 4.3 Foreign firm expansion 5 Wage polarization and labour fragmentation 5.1 Low worker wages, high foreign capture 5.2 Externally oriented wage expenditure 5.3 Weakening of worker power 6 Dynamic domestic accumulation 6.1 A locally led alternative 6.2 Internally oriented value capture 6.3 Productive reinvestment and industrialization 7 Marginalization and conflict 7.1 Displacement, subversion, and suppression 7.2 From peaceful protest to violence 8 The fragile foundations of the African Mining Consensus Appendix 1: Banro's financing history, 1996-2018 Appendix 2: Twangiza Mining suppliers by firm and nationality, 2010-2013 Appendix 3: Labour productivity of mining in South Kivu Appendix 4: Worker wages and trader-manager profits at Kadumwa Appendix 5: Twangiza wage distribution, 2017 Appendix 6: Estimating the buying price at Luhwindja, 2017 Bibliography Publishers' acknowledgements Index
  • 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.
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