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Rainforest Capitalism - Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession (Hardcover)
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Rainforest Capitalism - Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession (Hardcover)
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Congolese logging camps are places where mud, rain, fuel smugglers,
and village roadblocks slow down multinational timber firms; where
workers wage wars against trees while evading company surveillance
deep in the forest; where labor compounds trigger disturbing
colonial memories; and where blunt racism, logger machismo, and
homoerotic desires reproduce violence. In Rainforest Capitalism
Thomas Hendriks examines the rowdy world of industrial timber
production in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to theorize
racialized and gendered power dynamics in capitalist extraction.
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese workers and
European company managers as well as traders, farmers, smugglers,
and barkeepers, Hendriks shows how logging is deeply tied to
feelings of existential vulnerability in the face of larger forces,
structures, and histories. These feelings, Hendriks contends,
reveal a precarious side of power in an environment where
companies, workers, and local residents frequently find themselves
out of control. An ethnography of complicity, ecstasis, and
paranoia, Rainforest Capitalism queers assumptions of corporate
strength and opens up new ways to understand the complexities and
contradictions of capitalist extraction.
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