| Titre : | The eyes of the world : Mining the digital age in the Eastern DR Congo |
| Auteurs : | James H. Smith, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Ouvrages |
| Editeur : | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2021 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-226-77435-0 |
| Format : | 354 p. / illustrations (black and white) / 23 cm |
| Index. décimale : | 338.2096751/5 |
| Catégories : |
[Eurovoc] ÉNERGIE > industries charbonnière et minière > industrie minière [Eurovoc] GÉOGRAPHIE > Afrique > Afrique subsaharienne > Afrique centrale > Congo |
| Résumé : | "The digital devices that, many would argue, define this era exist not only because of Silicon Valley innovations but also because of a burgeoning trade in dense, artisanally mined substances like tantalum, tin, and tungsten. In the tentatively postwar Eastern DR Congo, where many lives have been reoriented around artisanal mining, these minerals are socially dense, fueling movement and innovative collaborations that encompass diverse actors, geographies, temporalities, and dimensions. Focusing on the miners and traders of some of these “digital minerals,” The Eyes of the World examines how Eastern Congolese understand the work in which they are engaged, the forces pitted against them, and the complicated process through which substances in the earth and forest are converted into commodified resources. Smith shows how violent dispossession has fueled a bottom-up social theory that valorizes movement and collaboration—one that directly confronts both private mining companies and the tracking initiatives implemented by international companies aspiring to ensure that the minerals in digital devices are purified of blood." |
| Note de contenu : |
Part 1: Orientations
Prologue: An Introduction to the Personal, Methodological, and Spatiotemporal Scales of the Project 1. The Eyes of the World: Themes of Movement, Visualization, and (Dis)embodiment in Congolese Digital Minerals Extraction (an Introduction) Part 2: Mining Worlds 2. War Stories: Seeing the World through War 3. The Magic Chain: Interdimensional Movement in the Supply Chain for the “Black Minerals” 4. Mining Futures in the Ruins Part 3: The Eyes of the World on Bisie and the Game of Tags 5. Bisie during the Time of Movement 6. Insects of the Forest 7. The Battle of Bisie 8. Closure 9. Game of Tags: Supply Chain Auditing as Purification Project Conclusion: Chains, Holes, and Wormholes |
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| Code-barres | Cote | Support | Localisation | Section | Disponibilité |
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| 008985 | RAA 1165 | Livre | Centre de documentation du CERDI / Ecole d'Economie | Salle de lecture | Disponible |
