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New article: Swallowed up by the earth
The global economy’s relentless hunger for coltan was always dangerous for Rubaya. The town was – and still is – a mining-governancevoid, before and after M23’s takeover.
Loose Futures: Deep History, Fluvial Geology and Economy of Sediments in the Himalayan Rivers
This project ethnographically examines the long history of sediments in the Himalayan rivers.
Mining ecology, early urbanism and environmental knowledge in Katanga: a deep-time interdisciplinary approach
Through an interdisciplinary approach involving political anthropology, oral history, environmental archaeology and historical linguistics, this project aspires to transform our understanding of the deep-time interactions between artisanal mining ecology, early urbanism, and indigenous ecological knowledge in the southeastern DRC.