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In Colonial Impotence, Benoît Henriet studies the violent contradictions of colonial rule from the standpoint of the Leverville concession, Belgian Congo’s largest palm oil exploitation. Leverville was imagined as a benevolent tropical utopia, whose Congolese workers would be "civilized" through a paternalist machinery. However, the concession was marred by inefficiency, endemic corruption and intrinsic brutality. Colonial agents in the field could be seen as impotent, for they were both unable and unwilling to perform as expected. This book offers a new take on the joint experience of colonialism and capitalism in Southwest Congo, and sheds light on their impact on local environments, bodies, societies and cosmogonies. (Provided by publisher)

HISTORY / Africa / General. --- Capitalism. --- Colonialism. --- Palm oil. --- Unilever. --- Logging --- History --- Congo (Democratic Republic) --- Forest harvesting --- Pulpwood --- Timber --- Trees --- Harvesting --- Lumbering --- Forestry engineering --- Forests and forestry --- Exploitation forestière --- Congo belge --- Pratique déloyale --- Huile de palme --- Commerce --- Industrie --- État indépendant du Congo --- Palm oil industry --- Corrupt practices --- Colonial influence. --- #SBIB:949.3H4 --- #SBIB:96G --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Vegetable oil industry --- Koloniale en diplomatieke geschiedenis van België (wereldoorlogen) --- Geschiedenis van Afrika --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Congo DR --- Congo (Kinshasa) --- Congo (Leopoldville) --- Democratic Republic of Congo --- Democratic Republic of the Congo --- Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika Kongo --- DR Congo --- DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo) --- DRK (Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika Kongo) --- Kongo --- R.D. Congo --- RD Congo --- RDC (République démocratique du Congo) --- Republic of Congo (Leopoldville) --- Republic of the Congo (Leopoldville) --- République démocratique du Congo --- République du Congo (Leopoldville) --- Belgian Congo --- Zaire --- Capitalism --- Colonialism --- Palm oil --- Unilever --- History of Congo --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1920-1929 --- anno 1930-1939 --- 1900-1999

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The first comparative historical analysis - local, national and transnational - of the cross-border Central African copperbelt; a key work in studies of labour, urbanisation and African studies.The Central African Copperbelt, encompassing the mining communities of Katanga (DR Congo) and Zambia, has been central to the study of modernisation and rapid social and political change in urban Africa. This volume expands upon earlier studies of industrial mining, male-dominated formal labour organisation and political change by examining both sides of the border from pre-colonial history to the present and encompassing a wide range of economic, social and cultural identities and activities. Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, the contributors explore copperbelt communities' sense of identity - expressed in comic strips and football matches, their precarious and inventive ways of living, their involvement in church and education, and the processes and impact of urbanisation and development, environmental degradation and changing gender relations. A major contribution to borderland studies, in showing how the meaning and relevance of the border to the copperbelt's mixed and mobile population has changed constantly over time, the book's engagement with communities at the nexus of social, economic and political change makes it a key study for those working in global urban development.

Labor --- Social change --- Urbanization --- Copperbelt Province (Zambia) --- History. --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Cities and towns --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social evolution --- Labor and laboring classes --- Manpower --- Work --- Working class --- Copperbelt Province, Zambia --- E-books --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A11 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Zambie --- Travail --- Changement social --- Urbanisation --- Histoire --- Ceinture cuprifère d'Afrique centrale

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