A darker shade of white: expat self-making in a Congolese rainforest enclave
This article offers a new perspective on contemporary ‘whiteness’ in Africa by looking at the ambiguous ways in which it affects everyday life in and around the labour compounds of a multinational timber firm in the Congolese rainforest. As a foreign investment enclave, the logging concession is hom...
Hovedforfatter: | Hendricks, T |
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Format: | Journal article |
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Cambridge University Press
2017
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