Rainforest Capitalism

Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession

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Author(s)
Hendriks, Thomas
Language
English
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Abstract
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.
URI
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/96925
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
DOI
10.1215/9781478022473
ISBN
9781478017844, 9781478015239, 9781478092483
Publisher
Duke University Press
Publisher website
https://www.dukeupress.edu/
Publication date and place
Durham, 2022
Imprint
Duke University Press Books
Classification
Social and cultural anthropology
African history
Central Africa
Pages
321
Public remark
Funder name: De Gruyter eBound Foundation
Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/