期刊
ANTIPODE
卷 48, 期 4, 页码 1102-1121出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/anti.12236
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territory; frontier; Democratic Republic of the Congo; conflict; governance; natural resources
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资金
- Swiss National Science Fund (SNF/FNS)
This article traces the geography of the conflict minerals campaign and its impact on artisanal mining in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a region that currently emerges as a pioneer case of traceability and due diligence efforts with regard to the exploitation and trade in tantalum, tungsten and tin. We subsequently analyse the opening and attempted closure of the Congolese resource frontier in the context of recent market reform, and we describe how this process has accompanied a transnational corporate-government nexus bent on monopolising Congo's artisanal 3T resources. Specifically, we argue how the conflict minerals campaign and its implementation on the ground has brought about a harmful, disruptive logic for an artisanal mining sector that is notoriously categorised as unruly, illegal, and informal, but of which upstream stakeholders have in practice been jeopardised by transnational reform. We thus shift the attention from questions on the political economy of resource wars towards a deeper understanding of the intersecting spaces of production and regulation that underpin formalisation and traceability of conflict minerals in this protracted conflict environment.
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