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Rainforest Capitalism

Thomas Hendriks examines the rowdy environment of industrial timber production in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to theorize the social, racial, and gender power dynamics of capitalist extraction.

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Main Author: Hendriks, Thomas
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Duke University Press 2025
Subjects:
Capitalism; Logging; Power; Corporations; Postcritical ethnography; Johannes Fabian; Democratic Republic of Congo; tree felling; Feminism; Postcritique; Ecstasis; Extraction; Timber; fieldwork; reparative writing; timber sector; racialized pay gaps; daywork; selective felling; cartography; industrial logging; rubber; palm oil; cotton; coercive labor recruitment; compulsory cultivation; Corporate Social Responsibility; Development; Smuggling; James Ferguson; 2002 Forest Code; labor compounds; logging concession; critical whiteness studies; capitalist extraction; occult economy; masculinity; misogyny
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history
thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1H Africa::1HF Sub-Saharan Africa::1HFJ Central Africa
Online Access:https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/96925
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