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Title: | New political topographies: mining companies and indirect discharge in Southern Katanga (DRC) |
Author: | Hönke, Jana |
Year: | 2010 |
Periodical: | Politique africaine (ISSN 0244-7827) |
Issue: | 120 |
Pages: | 105-127 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Congo (Democratic Republic of) Katanga |
Subjects: | national security multinational enterprises sovereignty governance 1890-1899 1900-1999 2000-2009 |
Abstract: | For analysing current reconfigurations of political order in Africa in a new way, this article suggests a focus on particular socio-economic spaces. It analyses how multinational companies govern security in the copper and cobalt mining region of Southern Katanga (DRC). The article argues that the extended role of companies in managing political order in Southern Katanga can be understood as a new form of indirect discharge by the host and the home states of multinational companies in such a way as to quasi-outsource local governance. It engenders political topographies for securing production and for discharging responsibility and control from the arrival of Western companies in the 1890s to the establishment of colonial order by the 1920s, and the period of state reconstruction from 2003 to 2008. Notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] |