Rainforest Capitalism

Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession

Thomas Hendriks (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2022
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1784-4 (ISBN)

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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.

Thomas Hendriks is FWO Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa at KU Leuven and coeditor of Readings in Sexualities from Africa.

Note on Anonymity ix
Note on Photography xi
Prologue xv
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction. Thinking with Loggers 1
1. Awkward Beginnings 29
2. Forest Work 48
3. Remembering Labor 75
4. Sharing the Company 98
5. Out of Here 120
6. A Darker Shade of White 143
7. Cannibals and Corned Beef 161
8. Men and Trees 187
9. Women and Chainsaws 207
Conclusion. Capitalism and Ecstasis 230
Epilogue 249
Notes 253
References 263
Index 285

Erscheinungsdatum	11.01.2022
Zusatzinfo	15 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-4780-1784-8 / 1478017848
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-1784-4 / 9781478017844
Zustand	Neuware