Democratic Republic of Congo

2009 Extractive Orders. Transnational Mining Companies in the Nineteenth and in the Twenty-First Century in the Central African Copperbelt, in: Southall, Roger/Melber, Henning (eds.): A New Scramble for Africa, Scottsville: KZN Press, pp. 274-298.

by Jana Hönke

2010 New political topographies. Mining companies and indirect discharge in Southern Katanga (DRC), Politique Africaine N° 120, December 2010.

by Jana Hönke

For analysing current reconfigurations of political order in Africa in a new way, this article suggests a focus on... more For analysing current reconfigurations of political order in Africa in a new way, this article suggests a focus on particular socio-economic spaces. It analyses how multinational companies govern security in the copper and cobalt mining region of Southern Katanga (DRC). The article argues that the extended role of companies in managing political order in Southern Katanga can be understood as a new form of indirect discharge by the host and the home states of multinational companies in such a way as to quasi-outsource local governance. It engenders political topographies different from those of corporate security governance in the XIXth-XXth centuries.

Escaping Statebuilding: Resistance and Civil Society in the Democratic Republic of Congo

by marta iniguez

Published in Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Vol. 6:1, 2012. Pp. 75 - 89

That statebuilding entails violence and dispossession, even in its contemporary form, is illustrated by the case of... more That statebuilding entails violence and dispossession, even in its contemporary form, is illustrated by the case of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The question this begs is not whether resistance exists but rather where and how it operates. Following James Scott, the article shows that resistance takes place as a quotidian strategy of mitigation, avoidance and escapism for which civil society acts as a platform. Highlighting civil society's ambiguity and heterogeneity, the article conceives of it as a site of resistance and analyses three strategies that are channelled through it: the deployment of counter-discourses, the use of violence and the production of the social fabric.

Pygmic tours

by Stan Frankland

A monolectal view of code-switching: Layered code-switching among Zairians in Belgium

by Jan Blommaert

Grassroots literacy: Writing, identity and voice in Central Africa

by Jan Blommaert

Economies of War: A New Framework for the Congolese Conflict

by John Porten

War economy literature suggests that valuable, portable resources have a tendency to drive conflict in territories of... more War economy literature suggests that valuable, portable resources have a tendency to drive conflict in territories of great state weakness. Yet the Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, rich in gold, has become much less violent than the Kivus, the Congolese states just to the south of Ituri, where mining of much less valuable columbite-tantalite ores are suspected to drive intense, brutal conflict.

This paper examines Congolese mining law and discovers that enforcement varies greatly between the Ituri and Kivu regions. As a result, small, artisanal miners dominate "coltan" mining in the Kivus, but multi-nationals operate large-scale gold mines in Ituri. Combining literature on resource conflict, the paper develops a hypothesis that differentiated enforcement of mining law allowed multi-national firms to shift the balance of militant interests away from capitalizing on chaotic economies of war and toward creating a more stable market for protection.

De Strijd Tegen de Straffeloosheid in Congo: een Samenspel van Nationale en International Factoren

by Peter Van der Auweraert

Published in "Humanitair Recht in de Kijker", 2005, 79-94

Brassage Congolais: the efforts to forge the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the wake of the Second Congo War

by Edward Lucas

MA Dissertation. Department of War Studies, King's College London. 2008

This dissertation examines the efforts to rebuild the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo following the... more This dissertation examines the efforts to rebuild the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo following the Second Congo War (1998-2004).

MÉMOIRE COLONIALE, PRODUCTION NARRATIVE ET INSTITUTION LITTÉRAIRE EN BELGIQUE FRANCOPHONE : UNE MISE EN PERSPECTIVE

by Pierre HALEN

Colloque Belgique-Congo. Enjeux d’histoire – enjeux de mémoire / Belgium-Congo. History vs. Memory / België-Congo. Tussen geschiedenis en herinnering, 31.01-01.02.2007 Bruxelles CEGES-SOMA. Texte à paraitre

Synthèse critique de ce qu'il en fut de la mémoire coloniale telle qu'elle s'est exprimée dans la littérature... more Synthèse critique de ce qu'il en fut de la mémoire coloniale telle qu'elle s'est exprimée dans la littérature francophone de Belgique, et surtout qu'elle que le champ, à différentes époques, a été plus ou moins disposé à la recevoir.

Ruined: From Spectacle to Action

by Rebecca Ashworth

Co-authored with Nalini Mohabir, Ex Plus Ultra, 2 (2010).

United Nations Peacekeeping Forces and the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict

by Nicolas Lamp

co-authored with Dana Trif (and in need of an update)

A Changing of the Guard: Great Power Conflict in Post-Independence Congo

by Graeme Douglas

A fourth year undergraduate paper I wrote about the transfer of influence over the Congo from Belgium and Britain to... more A fourth year undergraduate paper I wrote about the transfer of influence over the Congo from Belgium and Britain to the United States in the early 1960s.

O Messias Entretanto Já Chegou. Relendo Balandier e o Profetismo Africano na Pós-Colónia

by Ruy Llera Blanes

2009. Campos - Revista de Antropologia Social. Number 10, Volume 2, pp. 9-23.

And the Messiah Arrived. Re-reading Balandier and African Prophetism in the Postcolony

One of the most... more And the Messiah Arrived. Re-reading Balandier and African Prophetism in the Postcolony

One of the most impacting theories in the anthropology of Africa of the last decades has been Georges Balandier’s theorization of the “colonial situation”, and namely his portrait of the development of messianic and prophetic religious movements with a strong political accent in the Lower Congo region. In this article I propose to revisit Balandier’s main theories through the case study of two prophetic movements of this region – Kimbanguism and Tokoism – with which, together with my colleague Ramon Sarró, I have developed fieldwork in Portugal and Angola. This essay is also an appraisal of the current pertinence of Balandier’s proposals for the study of these movements in contemporary transnational and postcolonial times.

KEYWORDS: Georges Balandier; Religion; Prophetism; Congo; Angola.

Prospections et Fouilles archéologiques de la mission 'Boyekoli Ebale Congo 2010' (RDC)

by Alexandre Livingstone Smith

Cornelissen, E.
Hubau, W.
Ebosso, O.

Shades of grey: Post-conflict land policy reform in the Great Lakes Region

by Chris Huggins

Land, migration and conflict in eastern DRC

by Chris Huggins

Improvisational economies: Coltan production in the eastern Congo

by Jeffrey Mantz

Do Cellular Phones Dream of Civil War? The Mystification of Production and the Consequences of Technology Fetishism in the Eastern Congo

by Jeffrey Mantz

Brussels identities from A to Z: Congo

by Office for Urban Reporting OUR

(The Bulletin, October 2009)

Petronelle Mubande is one of the 7,000 people with Congolese nationality living in Brussels - the Congolese community,... more Petronelle Mubande is one of the 7,000 people with Congolese nationality living in Brussels - the Congolese community, including those naturalised and illegal, being significantly larger than that. Like many of her compatriots, Petronelle fled her native Kinshasa. Despite the terrors of the Belgian colonial reign in the Congo – which under Leopold II was particularly ruthless, even for its day – she came to Belgium filled with great expectations. “Like most Congolese, I thought that Belgium was a good country, filled with honourable people, and that Brussels would be a beautiful city.” But reality bit hard...