Disrupted development in the Congo : the fragile foundations of the African Mining Consensus / Ben Radley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Radley, Ben, author.

Series:

Critical frontiers of theory, research, and policy in international development studies.

Oxford scholarship online.

Critical frontiers of theory, research, and policy in international development studies

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mineral industries--Africa.

Mineral industries.

Mineral industries--Africa--Foreign ownership.

Mineral industries--Social aspects--Africa.

Economic development--Africa.

Economic development.

International business enterprises--Africa.

International business enterprises.

Mineral industries--Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Through a detailed case study of gold mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 'Disrupted Development in the Congo' reveals the fragile foundations on which the African Mining Consensus rests. It documents how foreign mining corporations in the Congo have been prone to mismanagement and implicated in fuelling conflict and violence.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright Page

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of acronyms

Note to the reader

Epigraph

1 Disrupted development in the Congo

1.1 Aims and contributions

1.2 The African Mining Consensus

1.3 Recentring the periphery

1.4 The argument

1.5 Outline of the book and methods

2 The return and spread of the transnational mining corporation in the African periphery

2.1 Stage one: Blame the African state

2.2 Stage two: Roll out the corporation

2.3 Stage three: Displace African miners

3 Foreign mining corporations on trial

3.1 SOMINKI (1976-1997)

3.2 Banro (1995-2019)

3.3 Enrich the centre, impoverish the periphery

4 Disarticulation and alienation

4.1 Assimilation to enclavity

4.2 Stimulus to Northern economies

4.3 Foreign firm expansion

5 Wage polarization and labour fragmentation

5.1 Low worker wages, high foreign capture

5.2 Externally oriented wage expenditure

5.3 Weakening of worker power

6 Dynamic domestic accumulation

6.1 A locally led alternative

6.2 Internally oriented value capture

6.3 Productive reinvestment and industrialization

7 Marginalization and conflict

7.1 Displacement, subversion, and suppression

7.2 From peaceful protest to violence

8 The fragile foundations of the African Mining Consensus

Appendix 1: Banro's financing history, 1996-2018

Appendix 2: Twangiza Mining suppliers by firm and nationality, 2010-2013

Appendix 3: Labour productivity of mining in South Kivu

Appendix 4: Worker wages and trader-manager profits at Kadumwa

Appendix 5: Twangiza wage distribution, 2017

Appendix 6: Estimating the buying price at Luhwindja, 2017

Bibliography

Publishers' acknowledgements

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 6, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Radley, Ben Disrupted Development in the Congo

ISBN:

0-19-194432-7

0-19-266555-3

0-19-266556-1

OCLC:

1409032516