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"Thomas Hendriks examines the rowdy environment of industrial timber production in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to theorize the social, racial, and gender power dynamics of capitalist extraction."--

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"Congolese logging camps are places where mud, rain, fuel smugglers, and village roadblocks slow down multinational timber firms; where workers wage wars against trees while evading company surveillance deep in the forest; where labor compounds trigger disturbing colonial memories; and where blunt racism, logger machismo, and homoerotic desires reproduce violence. In Rainforest Capitalism Thomas Hendriks examines the rowdy world of industrial timber production in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to theorize racialized and gendered power dynamics in capitalist extraction. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese workers and European company managers as well as traders, farmers, smugglers, and barkeepers, Hendriks shows how logging is deeply tied to feelings of existential vulnerability in the face of larger forces, structures, and histories. These feelings, Hendriks contends, reveal a precarious side of power in an environment where companies, workers, and local residents frequently find themselves out of control. An ethnography of complicity, ecstasis, and paranoia, Rainforest Capitalism queers assumptions of corporate strength and opens up new means of understanding the complexities and contradictions of capitalist extraction"--

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The present dissertation is the product of an ethnography of everyday life in and around the labour camps of a multinational logging company operating in the Congolese rainforest. It offers a first detailed account of the actual workings of a logging company and, thus, contributes to an ethnographic understanding of the realities of globalised capitalism and its particular manifestation as investments and activities in out-of-the-way places. The case of the CTI logging concession illustrates how multinational companies, as agents of globalisation, are not always the strong and powerful actors moulding their own contexts of intervention, largely disconnected from their immediate surroundings. On the contrary, the successive chapters reveal that the company?s strategies were often failing and its activities marked by doubts and uncertainties. These more vulnerable, insecure and fragile aspects of multinational corporations in action often get side-lined in a globalisation discourse built upon their supposed control. This is not to deny the real power and influence

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In this thesis I focus on the day-to-day experiences of those doing aid work. The basic unit of my research entails company backed Western expatriate aid professionals. Throughout this research I examine how the motives to migrate and their cultural background shape their experience of home in Kampala, Uganda. The main focus is on their home creation and its relationship with lifestyle migration. I begin with an explanation of what drives expatriates, which lifestyle they strive for, and which suppositions are at the basis of their migration. Then I go into detail in the factors that make them feel 'at home in the world'. This evokes an explanation of the peculiar spaces that they establish and inhabit during their stay abroad, referred to as 'bubble' or 'cocoon'. More specifically, I explore how they form a social home, organized in a lifestyle enclave and how this relates to lifestyle migration. Subsequently, I reflect upon the challenges, unexpected realities, and feelings of connection and disconnection. Despite their privileged travel, I question whether their life is as good, easy, and worthwhile as they hoped for.