Reinventing paternalism. The micropolitics of work in the mining companies of Central Africa

Project Information

WORKINMINING

Grant agreement ID: 646802

DOI

10.3030/646802

Project closed

EC signature date 10 November 2015

Start date 1 December 2015

End date 31 May 2021

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 650 165,00

EU contribution

€ 1 650 165,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE
Belgium

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (13)

The union has reoriented towards entrepreneurship: neoliberal solidarities on Zambia’s Copperbelt

Author(s): Thomas McNamara
Published in: Third World Quarterly, 2021, Page(s) 1-20, ISSN 0143-6597
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2021.1908827

A reasonable negotiation? Workplace‐based unionists’ subjectivities, wage negotiations, and the day‐to‐day life of an ethical‐political project

Author(s): Thomas McNamara
Published in: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2021, ISSN 1359-0987
Publisher: Royal Anthropological Institute
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.13420

Company brokers: Human resources managers in foreign mining projects in the Congolese Copperbelt

Author(s): Benjamin Rubbers
Published in: Ethnography, 2020, Page(s) 146613812094891, ISSN 1466-1381
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/1466138120948911

Gnawing Away at the City: Narratives of Domestic Precarity in a Congolese Mining Town

Author(s): Kristien Geenen
Published in: African Studies Review, 2020, Page(s) 1-22, ISSN 0002-0206
Publisher: African Studies Association
DOI: 10.1017/asr.2020.65

Patronage, social proximity, and instrumentality in the mining industry in the Democratic Republic of Congo: the union elections explored

Author(s): Kristien Geenen
Published in: Dialectical Anthropology, Issue 44/2, 2020, Page(s) 173-185, ISSN 0304-4092
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s10624-019-09575-0

Undermining gender: women mineworkers at the rock face in a Zambian underground mine

Author(s): James Musonda
Published in: Anthropology Southern Africa, Issue 43/1, 2020, Page(s) 32-42, ISSN 2332-3256
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2020.1736945

Introduction—trade unions in times of austerity and development

Author(s): Thomas McNamara, Manos Spyridakis
Published in: Dialectical Anthropology, Issue 44/2, 2020, Page(s) 109-119, ISSN 0304-4092
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s10624-020-09586-2

Mining Boom, Labour Market Segmentation and Social Inequality in the Congolese Copperbelt

Author(s): Benjamin Rubbers
Published in: Development and Change, 2019, ISSN 0012-155X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/dech.12531

Mining towns, enclaves and spaces: A genealogy of worker camps in the Congolese copperbelt

Author(s): Benjamin Rubbers
Published in: Geoforum, Issue 98, 2019, Page(s) 88-96, ISSN 0016-7185
Publisher: Pergamon Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.10.005

Governing new mining projects in D. R. Congo. A view from the HR department of a Chinese company

Author(s): Benjamin Rubbers
Published in: The Extractive Industries and Society, Issue 7/1, 2020, Page(s) 191-198, ISSN 2214-790X
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2019.12.006

‘We are not just a union, we are a family’ class, kinship and tribe in Zambia’s mining unions

Author(s): Robby Kapesea, Thomas McNamara
Published in: Dialectical Anthropology, Issue 44/2, 2020, Page(s) 153-172, ISSN 0304-4092
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s10624-019-09578-x

Modernity on Credit: The Experience of Underground Miners on the Zambian Copperbelt

Author(s): James Musonda
Published in: Journal of Southern African Studies, 2021, Page(s) 1-16, ISSN 0305-7070
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2020.1864921

Mining companies and gender(ed) policies: The women of the Congolese Copperbelt, past and present

Author(s): Francesca Pugliese
Published in: The Extractive Industries and Society, 2020, ISSN 2214-790X
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2020.08.006

Book chapters (2)

The Dynamics of Inequality in the Congolese Copperbelt: A Discussion of Bourdieu’s Theory of Social Space

Author(s): Benjamin Rubbers
Published in: Social Im/mobilities in Africa Ethnographic Approaches, 2020, Page(s) 132-154, ISBN 978-1-78920-485-8
Publisher: Berghahn Books

Introduction: Regimes of Responsibility in Africa: Genealogies, Rationalities and Conflicts

Author(s): Benjamin Rubbers and Alessandro Jedlowski
Published in: Regimes of Responsibility in Africa. Genealogies, Rationalities and Conflicts, 2020, Page(s) 1-19, ISBN 978-1-78920-359-2
Publisher: Berghahn books