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Rainforest Capitalism
Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession
Taschenbuch von Thomas Hendriks
Sprache: Englisch

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Congolese logging camps are places where mud, rain, fuel smugglers, and village roadblocks slow down multinational timber firms; where workers wage wars against trees while evading company surveillance deep in the forest; where labor compounds trigger disturbing colonial memories; and where blunt racism, logger machismo, and homoerotic desires reproduce violence. In Rainforest Capitalism Thomas Hendriks examines the rowdy world of industrial timber production in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to theorize racialized and gendered power dynamics in capitalist extraction. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese workers and European company managers as well as traders, farmers, smugglers, and barkeepers, Hendriks shows how logging is deeply tied to feelings of existential vulnerability in the face of larger forces, structures, and histories. These feelings, Hendriks contends, reveal a precarious side of power in an environment where companies, workers, and local residents frequently find themselves out of control. An ethnography of complicity, ecstasis, and paranoia, Rainforest Capitalism queers assumptions of corporate strength and opens up new ways to understand the complexities and contradictions of capitalist extraction.
Congolese logging camps are places where mud, rain, fuel smugglers, and village roadblocks slow down multinational timber firms; where workers wage wars against trees while evading company surveillance deep in the forest; where labor compounds trigger disturbing colonial memories; and where blunt racism, logger machismo, and homoerotic desires reproduce violence. In Rainforest Capitalism Thomas Hendriks examines the rowdy world of industrial timber production in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to theorize racialized and gendered power dynamics in capitalist extraction. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese workers and European company managers as well as traders, farmers, smugglers, and barkeepers, Hendriks shows how logging is deeply tied to feelings of existential vulnerability in the face of larger forces, structures, and histories. These feelings, Hendriks contends, reveal a precarious side of power in an environment where companies, workers, and local residents frequently find themselves out of control. An ethnography of complicity, ecstasis, and paranoia, Rainforest Capitalism queers assumptions of corporate strength and opens up new ways to understand the complexities and contradictions of capitalist extraction.
Über den Autor
Thomas Hendriks
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Note on Anonymity ix
Note on Photography xi
Prologue xv
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction. Thinking with Loggers 1
1. Awkward Beginnings 29
2. Forest Work 48
3. Remembering Labor 75
4. Sharing the Company 98
5. Out of Here 120
6. A Darker Shade of White 143
7. Cannibals and Corned Beef 161
8. Men and Trees 187
9. Women and Chainsaws 207
Conclusion. Capitalism and Ecstasis 230
Epilogue 249
Notes 253
References 263
Index 285
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 322
ISBN-13: 9781478017844
ISBN-10: 1478017848
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hendriks, Thomas
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Thomas Hendriks
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.01.2022
Gewicht: 0,469 kg
preigu-id: 119731882
Über den Autor
Thomas Hendriks
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Note on Anonymity ix
Note on Photography xi
Prologue xv
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction. Thinking with Loggers 1
1. Awkward Beginnings 29
2. Forest Work 48
3. Remembering Labor 75
4. Sharing the Company 98
5. Out of Here 120
6. A Darker Shade of White 143
7. Cannibals and Corned Beef 161
8. Men and Trees 187
9. Women and Chainsaws 207
Conclusion. Capitalism and Ecstasis 230
Epilogue 249
Notes 253
References 263
Index 285
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 322
ISBN-13: 9781478017844
ISBN-10: 1478017848
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hendriks, Thomas
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Thomas Hendriks
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.01.2022
Gewicht: 0,469 kg
preigu-id: 119731882
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