Theodore Trefon
Biographic Data
| ID | 324332 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Theodore Trefon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Theodore |
| FAMILY NAME | Trefon |
| SIGNATURE | TREFON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Museum for Central Africa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Bushmeat
Meat for Some, Wildlife for Others
The introduction describes and analyzes the reliance on bushmeat in Central Africa, cultural attachment to and economic reliance on bushmeat, why there is a rapidly growing bushmeat crisis, local perceptions of wildlife management and international responses to it, and discusses wildlife sustainability and major threats.
Game Over?
The conclusion ties together the three main messages of the book: bushmeat is economically and culturally important throughout Central Africa; wildlife is under threat; and sustainable wildlife management policies are inefficient. It summarizes the book’s main focus: bushmeat is food for the heart, mind, and soul just as much as it is money and food for the stomach.
Conservation, Development and Wildlife
Chapter 3 offers an historic analysis of conservation efforts in Africa with a focus on protected areas. These spaces have become highly politicized arenas in which actors with different visions and agendas compete over access and resource rights.
Goma
A city of over one million people caught between volcanic eruptions and armed conflict, Goma has come to embody the ‘tragedy’ that is the Democratic Republic of Congo. Often portrayed by outsiders as a living hell, Goma is nevertheless a city of opportunity for others. Drawing on a rich tapestry of personal narratives, from taxi driver to market trader, doctor to local humanitarian worker, Goma: Stories of Strength and Sorrow from Eastern Congo p…
Uncertainty and powerlessness in Congo 2012
Conflict, state failure and urban transformation in the Eastern Congolese periphery. The case of Goma
Investigating the urban impact of local conflict dynamics 1.1.2.'Non-state' urban development?1.1.3.Informality 1.2.Politico-geographic location: the central role of the periphery 1.2.1.Centrality of the margins: a changing urban order?1.2.2.The urban borderland-angle 1.3.Urban processes of transformation: a conceptual framework 1.3.1.Governance 1.3.2.Navigation 1.3.3.Identity 1.3.4.Landscape 1.4.Outline of the thesis 2. Methodology 2.1.Choice of…
Conflict, state failure and urban transformation in the Eastern Congolese periphery. The case of Goma
Urban-Rural Straddling Conceptualizing the Peri-urban in Central Africa
African urban hinterlands are fascinating spaces of imbalance where ordinary people have imagined new constructions of space and time. On the basis of interdisciplinary field research in central Africa, this article analyzes how power over nature is structured in peri-urban areas. It defines the concept of peri-urban space and identifies the stakeholders working, living, exploiting, and imagining this hybrid form of social space. It addresses the…
Administrative obstacles to reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Emerging from two major wars (1996—97 and 1998—2002), the Democratic Republic of Congo is one of Africa’s most notoriously failed states. Since President Joseph Kabila came to power in 2001, the international community has invested significantly in efforts to rebuild the Congo. State-building efforts, however, have not achieved the expected results. International partners and the Congolese authorities share responsibility for failing to bring abo…
Hinges and Fringes
This chapter presents the concept of peri-urbanity in the dynamic processes of social change taking place throughout central Africa. Peri-urban areas in central Africa are characterised by proximity to a densely populated urban settlement, rapid population growth, severe environmental degradation, hybrid governance structures that juxtapose state agencies and traditional authorities, extractive and productive economic activities for subsistence a…
Public Service Provision in a Failed State
‘The state is dying but not yet dead’ and ‘the state is so present, but so useless’ are also commonly heard refrains. These popular sentiments, inexorably expressed in all of the country's languages by the poor and the well-to-do, have been described by development experts and political scientists as state failure. But why is the state still so powerful and omnipresent in the daily lives of these people wronged by colonial oppression, dictatorshi…
La réforme du secteur forestier en République démocratique du Congo
La République démocratique du Congo a entrepris une ambitieuse réforme du secteur forestier, qui a pour but de contribuer au développement macro-économique, à la conservation de la nature, et d’améliorer le niveau de vie de la population. La nécessité de trouver un équilibre entre les besoins des compagnies forestières privées, les besoins du gouvernement ainsi que ceux des populations locales est à la base du Code forestier de 2002, élaboré sous…
Industrial logging in the Congo
The rehabilitation of the DRC's economy in general, and logging in particular, will require the full collaboration of the state, the private sector and the people. But is this possible, given the significant challenges that pose a threat to such collaboration? The article looks at the issues with regard to the forestry sector
Remote Control Research in Central Africa
This article explains how a project being implemented in peri-urban central Africa is coordinated from an office in Brussels. After an overview that addresses the conceptual challenges of defining 'peri-urban' and the question of why these social spaces are important from a development perspective, the article outlines 'remote control research' step-by-step: (i) conceptualisation, (ii) identification and recruitment of local experts, (iii) select…
Acting on Behalf (and in Spite) of the State
SCOPUS: ch.b
Reinventing Order in the Congo
Kinshasa is sub-Saharan Africa’s second largest city. The seven million Congolese who live there have a rich reputation for the courageous and innovative ways in which they survive in a harsh urban environment. They have created new social institutions, practices, networks and ways of living to deal with the collapse of public provision and a malfunctioning political system. This book describes how ordinary people, in the absence of formal sector…
Peace agenda 2002
4-18 February: Third informal consultation in Geneva after those in New York (November 2001) and Abuja, Nigeria (December 2001).The meeting brings together representatives of the DRC government and the rebels in preparation of the official summit between Joseph Kabila, Jean-Pierra Bembe and Adolphe Onusumba.The summit, however, did not take place.25 February-19 April: The Inter-Congolese Dialogue (ICD) takes place in Sun City, South Africa.Partia…
The political economy of sacrifice
With approximately 6 million inhabitants, Kinshasa is the second largest city in sub‐Saharan Africa ‐ and one of the poorest. The residents of the Congolese capital (the Kinois), like people throughout the country, have been struggling through a multi‐dimensional crisis for over forty years. Security, political and economic problems are dramatic, largely because the post‐colonial state abdicated from its role as provider of social and administrat…
Changing Patterns of Solidarity in Kinshasa
Les socits africaines ont ignor longtemps l'individualisme et continuent assez largement le faire en dpit de trs fortes pousses des processus d'individuation. (S. Latouche, 1998, p. 38) La solidarit africaine est un mythe absurde. (V. Y. Mudimbe, 1974, p.70) When you are rock bottom, you can still dig deeper 1
Reinventing Order in the Congo
Kinshasa is sub-Saharan Africa's second largest city. The seven million Congolese who live there have a rich reputation for the courageous and innovative ways in which they survive in a harsh urban environment. They have created new social institutions, practices, networks and ways of living to deal with the collapse of public provision and a malfunctioning political system. This book describes how ordinary people, in the absence of formal sector…
Public Service Provision in a Failed State
‘The state is dying but not yet dead’ and ‘the state is so present, but so useless’ are also commonly heard refrains. These popular sentiments, inexorably expressed in all of the country's languages by the poor and the well-to-do, have been described by development experts and political scientists as state failure. But why is the state still so powerful and omnipresent in the daily lives of these people wronged by colonial oppression, dictatorshi…
Administrative obstacles to reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Emerging from two major wars (1996—97 and 1998—2002), the Democratic Republic of Congo is one of Africa’s most notoriously failed states. Since President Joseph Kabila came to power in 2001, the international community has invested significantly in efforts to rebuild the Congo. State-building efforts, however, have not achieved the expected results. International partners and the Congolese authorities share responsibility for failing to bring abo…
The political economy of sacrifice
With approximately 6 million inhabitants, Kinshasa is the second largest city in sub‐Saharan Africa ‐ and one of the poorest. The residents of the Congolese capital (the Kinois), like people throughout the country, have been struggling through a multi‐dimensional crisis for over forty years. Security, political and economic problems are dramatic, largely because the post‐colonial state abdicated from its role as provider of social and administrat…
Uncertainty and powerlessness in Congo 2012
Urban-Rural Straddling Conceptualizing the Peri-urban in Central Africa
African urban hinterlands are fascinating spaces of imbalance where ordinary people have imagined new constructions of space and time. On the basis of interdisciplinary field research in central Africa, this article analyzes how power over nature is structured in peri-urban areas. It defines the concept of peri-urban space and identifies the stakeholders working, living, exploiting, and imagining this hybrid form of social space. It addresses the…
La réforme du secteur forestier en République démocratique du Congo
La République démocratique du Congo a entrepris une ambitieuse réforme du secteur forestier, qui a pour but de contribuer au développement macro-économique, à la conservation de la nature, et d’améliorer le niveau de vie de la population. La nécessité de trouver un équilibre entre les besoins des compagnies forestières privées, les besoins du gouvernement ainsi que ceux des populations locales est à la base du Code forestier de 2002, élaboré sous…
Remote Control Research in Central Africa
This article explains how a project being implemented in peri-urban central Africa is coordinated from an office in Brussels. After an overview that addresses the conceptual challenges of defining 'peri-urban' and the question of why these social spaces are important from a development perspective, the article outlines 'remote control research' step-by-step: (i) conceptualisation, (ii) identification and recruitment of local experts, (iii) select…
Peace agenda 2002
4-18 February: Third informal consultation in Geneva after those in New York (November 2001) and Abuja, Nigeria (December 2001).The meeting brings together representatives of the DRC government and the rebels in preparation of the official summit between Joseph Kabila, Jean-Pierra Bembe and Adolphe Onusumba.The summit, however, did not take place.25 February-19 April: The Inter-Congolese Dialogue (ICD) takes place in Sun City, South Africa.Partia…
The political economy of sacrifice
With approximately 6 million inhabitants, Kinshasa is the second largest city in sub‐Saharan Africa ‐ and one of the poorest. The residents of the Congolese capital (the Kinois), like people throughout the country, have been struggling through a multi‐dimensional crisis for over forty years. Security, political and economic problems are dramatic, largely because the post‐colonial state abdicated from its role as provider of social and administrat…
Changing Patterns of Solidarity in Kinshasa
Les socits africaines ont ignor longtemps l'individualisme et continuent assez largement le faire en dpit de trs fortes pousses des processus d'individuation. (S. Latouche, 1998, p. 38) La solidarit africaine est un mythe absurde. (V. Y. Mudimbe, 1974, p.70) When you are rock bottom, you can still dig deeper 1
Acting on Behalf (and in Spite) of the State
SCOPUS: ch.b
Reinventing Order in the Congo
Kinshasa is sub-Saharan Africa’s second largest city. The seven million Congolese who live there have a rich reputation for the courageous and innovative ways in which they survive in a harsh urban environment. They have created new social institutions, practices, networks and ways of living to deal with the collapse of public provision and a malfunctioning political system. This book describes how ordinary people, in the absence of formal sector…
Industrial logging in the Congo
The rehabilitation of the DRC's economy in general, and logging in particular, will require the full collaboration of the state, the private sector and the people. But is this possible, given the significant challenges that pose a threat to such collaboration? The article looks at the issues with regard to the forestry sector
Remote Control Research in Central Africa
This article explains how a project being implemented in peri-urban central Africa is coordinated from an office in Brussels. After an overview that addresses the conceptual challenges of defining 'peri-urban' and the question of why these social spaces are important from a development perspective, the article outlines 'remote control research' step-by-step: (i) conceptualisation, (ii) identification and recruitment of local experts, (iii) select…
Hinges and Fringes
This chapter presents the concept of peri-urbanity in the dynamic processes of social change taking place throughout central Africa. Peri-urban areas in central Africa are characterised by proximity to a densely populated urban settlement, rapid population growth, severe environmental degradation, hybrid governance structures that juxtapose state agencies and traditional authorities, extractive and productive economic activities for subsistence a…
Public Service Provision in a Failed State
‘The state is dying but not yet dead’ and ‘the state is so present, but so useless’ are also commonly heard refrains. These popular sentiments, inexorably expressed in all of the country's languages by the poor and the well-to-do, have been described by development experts and political scientists as state failure. But why is the state still so powerful and omnipresent in the daily lives of these people wronged by colonial oppression, dictatorshi…
La réforme du secteur forestier en République démocratique du Congo
La République démocratique du Congo a entrepris une ambitieuse réforme du secteur forestier, qui a pour but de contribuer au développement macro-économique, à la conservation de la nature, et d’améliorer le niveau de vie de la population. La nécessité de trouver un équilibre entre les besoins des compagnies forestières privées, les besoins du gouvernement ainsi que ceux des populations locales est à la base du Code forestier de 2002, élaboré sous…
Administrative obstacles to reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Emerging from two major wars (1996—97 and 1998—2002), the Democratic Republic of Congo is one of Africa’s most notoriously failed states. Since President Joseph Kabila came to power in 2001, the international community has invested significantly in efforts to rebuild the Congo. State-building efforts, however, have not achieved the expected results. International partners and the Congolese authorities share responsibility for failing to bring abo…
Urban-Rural Straddling Conceptualizing the Peri-urban in Central Africa
African urban hinterlands are fascinating spaces of imbalance where ordinary people have imagined new constructions of space and time. On the basis of interdisciplinary field research in central Africa, this article analyzes how power over nature is structured in peri-urban areas. It defines the concept of peri-urban space and identifies the stakeholders working, living, exploiting, and imagining this hybrid form of social space. It addresses the…
Conflict, state failure and urban transformation in the Eastern Congolese periphery. The case of Goma
Investigating the urban impact of local conflict dynamics 1.1.2.'Non-state' urban development?1.1.3.Informality 1.2.Politico-geographic location: the central role of the periphery 1.2.1.Centrality of the margins: a changing urban order?1.2.2.The urban borderland-angle 1.3.Urban processes of transformation: a conceptual framework 1.3.1.Governance 1.3.2.Navigation 1.3.3.Identity 1.3.4.Landscape 1.4.Outline of the thesis 2. Methodology 2.1.Choice of…
Conflict, state failure and urban transformation in the Eastern Congolese periphery. The case of Goma
Uncertainty and powerlessness in Congo 2012
Goma
A city of over one million people caught between volcanic eruptions and armed conflict, Goma has come to embody the ‘tragedy’ that is the Democratic Republic of Congo. Often portrayed by outsiders as a living hell, Goma is nevertheless a city of opportunity for others. Drawing on a rich tapestry of personal narratives, from taxi driver to market trader, doctor to local humanitarian worker, Goma: Stories of Strength and Sorrow from Eastern Congo p…
Bushmeat
Meat for Some, Wildlife for Others
The introduction describes and analyzes the reliance on bushmeat in Central Africa, cultural attachment to and economic reliance on bushmeat, why there is a rapidly growing bushmeat crisis, local perceptions of wildlife management and international responses to it, and discusses wildlife sustainability and major threats.
Game Over?
The conclusion ties together the three main messages of the book: bushmeat is economically and culturally important throughout Central Africa; wildlife is under threat; and sustainable wildlife management policies are inefficient. It summarizes the book’s main focus: bushmeat is food for the heart, mind, and soul just as much as it is money and food for the stomach.
Conservation, Development and Wildlife
Chapter 3 offers an historic analysis of conservation efforts in Africa with a focus on protected areas. These spaces have become highly politicized arenas in which actors with different visions and agendas compete over access and resource rights.
Reinventing Order in the Congo
Kinshasa is sub-Saharan Africa's second largest city. The seven million Congolese who live there have a rich reputation for the courageous and innovative ways in which they survive in a harsh urban environment. They have created new social institutions, practices, networks and ways of living to deal with the collapse of public provision and a malfunctioning political system. This book describes how ordinary people, in the absence of formal sector…
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