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Congo Inc
Author | : In Koli Jean Bofane |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2018-01-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780253031914 |
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To the sound of machine gun fire and the smell of burning flesh, award-winning author In Koli Jean Bofane leads readers on a perilous, satirical journey through the civil conflict and political instability that have been the logical outcome of generations of rapacious multinational corporate activity, corrupt governance, widespread civil conflict, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation in Africa. Isookanga, a Congolese Pygmy, grows up in a small village with big dreams of becoming rich. His vision of the world is shaped by his exploits in Raging Trade, an online game where he seizes control of the world's natural resources by any means possible: high-tech weaponry, slavery, and even genocide. Isookanga leaves his sleepy village to make his fortune in the pulsating capital Kinshasa, where he joins forces with street children, warlords, and a Chinese victim of globalization in this blistering novel about capitalism, colonialism, and the world haunted by the ghosts of Bismarck and Leopold II. Told with just enough levity to make it truly heartbreaking, Congo Inc. is a searing tale about ecological, political, and economic failure.
Belgian Congo American Survey 1954
Author | : Belgian Chamber of Commerce in the United States of America |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Congo (Democratic Republic) |
ISBN | : MINN:319510022982235 |
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Memories of Violence in Peru and the Congo
Author | : Gilbert Shang Ndi |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2021-12-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781000465075 |
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The book presents an intertextual and comparative analysis of memories of violence in Peruvian and Congolese Literature. Examining a variety of novels that offer insightful representations of violence in their respective historical settings, the author argues that similar historical experiences between Latin America and Africa engender ethical/aesthetic responses and enhance trans-continental critical dialogues in comparative literary studies. In the same way that the drama of the Congo has become the symbolic open wound of (post)colonial dispensation in Africa, Spanish conquest in Latin America also produced spaces where the legacy of colonialism is strongly visible and memorable, providing fertile ground for the reproduction of violence. This book explores the concept and reality of violence beyond its most obvious manifestations, demonstrating how in the colonial contexts of Peru and the Congo, violence was a function of (post)colonial power dynamics and deeply engrained socio-political, economic and cultural ordering and othering. From this perspective, the work considers and re-examines theoretical contributions from authors such as John Galtung, Michel Foucault, Immanuel Wallerstein, Anibal Quijano, Frantz Fanon, Achille Mbembe, Eboussi Boulaga, Pierre Nora, Susan Sontag, Stevan Weine, Cathy Caruth and Nelson Maldonado-Torres. This book will be of interest for scholars working on how violence is explored and represented in literature and other art forms.
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author | : Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1118 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Copyright |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105119498520 |
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Port Series
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Harbors |
ISBN | : PURD:32754072458726 |
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The Port of Huntington WV and Ports on Ohio River Miles 40 to 317 and Kanawha River WV
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Harbors |
ISBN | : UCSD:31822020636361 |
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Opposing Colonialism Antisemitism and Turbo Nationalism
Author | : Marina Gržinić |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2019-11-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781527543928 |
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This volume gathers together reflections on racism and nationalism, empowerment and futurity. It focuses on collective amnesia in regards to traumatic events of the European past and the ways in which memory and history are presented for the future. The essays cover and oppose the seemingly disparate genocides committed during Belgian colonialism, Austrian antisemitism and turbo-nationalism in “Republika Srpska” (Bosnia and Herzegovina), implying by no means a homogenization of the experiences. What connects these historical situations is the fact that, despite available documents, to this very day, nation-states are built on practices of oblivion regarding their past. This volume is indispensable for theoreticians, philosophers, and historians, as well as the general public. It expresses the demand to critically question our inherited knowledge and to rethink the past for a new future of conviviality.
Conflict Minerals Inc
Author | : Christoph N. Vogel |
Publsiher | : Hurst Publishers |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2022-07-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781787388802 |
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In the twenty-first century, the relationship between violent conflict and natural resources has become a matter of intense public and academic debate. As a result of fervent activism and international campaigning, the flagship case of ‘conflict minerals’ has captured global attention. This term groups together the artisanal tin, tantalum (coltan), tungsten and gold originating from war zones in Central Africa. Known as ‘digital minerals’ for their use in high-end technology, their exploitation and trade has been singled out in numerous media and United Nations reports as a key driver of violence, provoking an unprecedented popular outcry and prompting transnational efforts to promote ‘conflict-free’, ethical mining. Focusing on the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Conflict Minerals, Inc. is the first comprehensive analysis of this phenomenon. Based on meticulous investigation and long-term fieldwork, this book analyses why the campaign against ‘unethical’ mining went awry, and radically disrupted eastern Congo’s political economy. It dissects the evolution of the conflict minerals paradigm, the policy responses it triggered and their impact on artisanal miners. Vogel demonstrates how Western advocacy and policy have relied on colonial frames to drive change, and how White Saviourism perpetuates structural violence and inequality across global supply and value chains.