Disrupted Development in the Congo: The Fragile Foundations of the African Mining Consensus (Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies)

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Title
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of acronyms
Note to the reader
Epigraph
1 Disrupted development in the Congo
	1.1 Aims and contributions
	1.2 The African Mining Consensus
	1.3 Recentring the periphery
	1.4 The argument
	1.5 Outline of the book and methods
2 The return and spread of the transnational mining corporation in the African periphery
	2.1 Stage one: Blame the African state
	2.2 Stage two: Roll out the corporation
	2.3 Stage three: Displace African miners
3 Foreign mining corporations on trial
	3.1 SOMINKI (1976–1997)
	3.2 Banro (1995–2019)
	3.3 Enrich the centre, impoverish the periphery
4 Disarticulation and alienation
	4.1 Assimilation to enclavity
	4.2 Stimulus to Northern economies
	4.3 Foreign firm expansion
5 Wage polarization and labour fragmentation
	5.1 Low worker wages, high foreign capture
	5.2 Externally oriented wage expenditure
	5.3 Weakening of worker power
6 Dynamic domestic accumulation
	6.1 A locally led alternative
	6.2 Internally oriented value capture
	6.3 Productive reinvestment and industrialization
7 Marginalization and conflict
	7.1 Displacement, subversion, and suppression
	7.2 From peaceful protest to violence
8 The fragile foundations of the African Mining Consensus
Appendix 1: Banro\'s financing history, 1996–2018
Appendix 2: Twangiza Mining suppliers by firm and nationality, 2010–2013
Appendix 3: Labour productivity of mining in South Kivu
Appendix 4: Worker wages and trader–manager profits at Kadumwa
Appendix 5: Twangiza wage distribution, 2017
Appendix 6: Estimating the buying price at Luhwindja, 2017
Bibliography
Publishers\' acknowledgements
Index