« C’était bien à l’époque mais l’avenir iko sombre »

Why do former mineworkers in Lubumbashi (DRC) remember exploitative working conditions and measures to control their private lives with nostalgia? Building on their 'objects of loss', this book answers this question, foregrounding the voice of so-called 'Départs Volontaires’. The study combines ling...

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Main Author: Waldburger, Daniela
Format: Online
Language:English
Swahili
Published: Brill 2025
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1587692025-04-26T08:57:43Z « C’était bien à l’époque mais l’avenir iko sombre » Waldburger, Daniela Départs Volontaires Union Miniière du Haut-Katanga World Bank reforms barazaweb knowledge production loss memories mine workers nostalgia participative research methods reflexivity shared authority social history Why do former mineworkers in Lubumbashi (DRC) remember exploitative working conditions and measures to control their private lives with nostalgia? Building on their 'objects of loss', this book answers this question, foregrounding the voice of so-called 'Départs Volontaires’. The study combines linguistics, anthropology, and archives research to explore what ex-mineworkers regard as material and emotional 'objects of loss'. The book advocates for a participatory research framework called ‘the baraza web’ which merges the researcher’s perspective with the standpoint of the ex-miners to create an alternative archive and to show that power relations within a research setting need constant questioning. 2025-04-23T07:09:38Z 2025-04-23T07:09:38Z 2025-04-22T15:19:18Z 2025 book ONIX_20250422_9789004724907_19a 2772-7157 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101073 9789004724907 9789004724891 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/158769 eng swa Africa Multiple open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/101073/1/9789004724907_webready_content_text.pdf Brill 10.1163/9789004724907 10.1163/9789004724907 33fecb33-e7c4-4fc8-96b0-7ba2fccafba9 Austrian Science Fund (FWF) 0bdd30b8-28cc-4e2d-bd69-6cabb77b36d4 9789004724907 9789004724891 Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [...] open access
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reflexivity
shared authority
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« C’était bien à l’époque mais l’avenir iko sombre »
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Union Miniière du Haut-Katanga
World Bank reforms
barazaweb
knowledge production
loss
memories
mine workers
nostalgia
participative research methods
reflexivity
shared authority
social history
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World Bank reforms
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memories
mine workers
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participative research methods
reflexivity
shared authority
social history
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