C Vogel
Biographic Data
| ID | 18285 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Vogel |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Vogel |
| SIGNATURE | VOGEL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1176-376X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Kivu’s Intractable Security Conundrum, Redux
In January 2025, the March 23 movement (M23) captured the city of Goma for a second time, marking a deeply symbolic moment in the decades-long conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). North Kivu’s capital, home to 1.5 million people and hundreds of thousands of displaced persons who have fled surrounding areas amidst fighting since late 2021, had previously fallen to rebels on four occasions since 1996. In this latest itera…
Nonconventional Logistics: Rebellion, Resources and Rationalities in eastern Congo
Xerox soldiers, YouTube commanders and Twitter brigades: Information warfare in eastern Congo
Researching contemporary warfare requires attention to digital connectivity in contexts of crisis and conflict. This article traces the evolution of information warfare with a focus on the digitization, democratization and polarization of conflict-related communication and discourse. We argue that information warfare amplifies with the advent of social media—multiplying the scales for the conduct of hostilities, reducing distance and duration, an…
Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique. Corinna Jentzsch
Journal Article Violent Resistance. Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique. Corinna Jentzsch Get access Corinna Jentzsch, Violent Resistance. Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ISBN 9781108837453, 300pp, £75, available as e-book. Conflict Research Group Conflict Research Group Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, adae008, https://doi.org/10.1…
Raids and Routes: The Intractable Fluidity of Conflict in the Postcolony
Towards a politics of collaborative worldmaking: Ethics, Epistemologies and Mutual Positionalities in Conflict Research
Scholarly engagement with ethics, epistemologies and positionalities dilemmas in conflict research is marked by a disconnect between self-referential debates in the Ivory Tower and the very places research takes place. If there is reflection on foreign researchers, research brokers or research participants, accounts of genuinely collaborative work are rare. Drawing from a decade of collaborative research in eastern Congo, our essay targets this g…
The politics of incontournables: Entrenching patronage networks in eastern Congo’s mineral markets
Years after the formal end of two devastating wars, the Congo’s eastern Kivu provinces meander in a limbo of contested politics, deep-seated insecurity and armed mobilisation. Through the prism of the artisanal mining sector, which is currently undergoing significant regulatory transformation, this article studies the convoluted networks of political and economic order that underpin (in)security. Investigating the links between violence, reform a…
Brokering between (not so) overt and (not so) covert networks in conflict zones
There is a tendency to consider covert networks as separate from overt networks. Drawing on data from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, we demonstrate that this is not the case and identify how covert and overt networks are mutually constitutive. While most studies of African brokers have relied on network metaphors like 'Big Men' and 'social membranes', we consider the embeddedness of 'covert' networks in 'overt' networks explicitly. We perf…
Kivu’s intractable security conundrum, revisited
‘The Security Problems of the Democratic Republic of Congo continue to puzzle international peace and policy makers’.1 This is how, in 2009, Koen Vlassenroot and Timothy Raeymaekers set out to explain conflict dynamics in the Kivu in this journal. They argued that while the peace process successfully unified the Congo and produced new, democratic institutions, it also led to the privatization of governance and the entrenching of conflicts. Within…
Between Tags & Guns: Fragmentations of public authority around eastern Congo's artisanal 3T mines
A miner’s canary in eastern Congo: Formalisation of artisanal 3T mining and precarious livelihoods in South Kivu
Histoire du politique au Congo-Kinshasa by Gauthier de Villers Louvain-la-Neuve: Academia L'Harmattan, 2016. Pp. 333. €36 (pbk)
reality that compels the post-colonial subject to endless impoverishing.To the author, humour points to the diversity, wildness and spontaneity of social life outside formal associations, the unmapped spaces where the governor and the governed blend into a spectrum of possibilities.In Chapter , 'Siddon Look' (titled after a phrase in Nigerian parlance which means sitting and watching but not participating nor interested in the event going on), th…
Brokers of crisis: The everyday uncertainty of Eastern Congo's mineral négociants
Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) artisanal mining sector is often linked to the violent conflicts that have beset Central Africa for over two decades. While many analyses emphasise its 'criminal' and 'illegal' nature, less attention has been paid to the ambiguity of this economy, most prominently incarnated by the intermediate mineral traders callednégociants. Focusing on their entrepreneurship, networks and everyday activities, t…
"Terr(it)or(ies) of Peace? The Congolese Mining Frontier and the Fight Against "Conflict Minerals: Terr(it)or(ies) of Peace
This article traces the geography of the "conflict minerals" campaign and its impact on artisanal mining in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a region that currently emerges as a pioneer case of traceability and due diligence efforts with regard to the exploitation and trade in tantalum, tungsten and tin. We subsequently analyse the opening and attempted closure of the Congolese resource frontier in the context of recent market reform…
Fighting windmills in Eastern Congo? The ambiguous impact of the ‘conflict minerals’ movement
Gerhard Heberer
"Terr(it)or(ies) of Peace? The Congolese Mining Frontier and the Fight Against "Conflict Minerals: Terr(it)or(ies) of Peace
This article traces the geography of the "conflict minerals" campaign and its impact on artisanal mining in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a region that currently emerges as a pioneer case of traceability and due diligence efforts with regard to the exploitation and trade in tantalum, tungsten and tin. We subsequently analyse the opening and attempted closure of the Congolese resource frontier in the context of recent market reform…
Fighting windmills in Eastern Congo? The ambiguous impact of the ‘conflict minerals’ movement
A miner’s canary in eastern Congo: Formalisation of artisanal 3T mining and precarious livelihoods in South Kivu
Brokers of crisis: The everyday uncertainty of Eastern Congo's mineral négociants
Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) artisanal mining sector is often linked to the violent conflicts that have beset Central Africa for over two decades. While many analyses emphasise its 'criminal' and 'illegal' nature, less attention has been paid to the ambiguity of this economy, most prominently incarnated by the intermediate mineral traders callednégociants. Focusing on their entrepreneurship, networks and everyday activities, t…
Kivu’s intractable security conundrum, revisited
‘The Security Problems of the Democratic Republic of Congo continue to puzzle international peace and policy makers’.1 This is how, in 2009, Koen Vlassenroot and Timothy Raeymaekers set out to explain conflict dynamics in the Kivu in this journal. They argued that while the peace process successfully unified the Congo and produced new, democratic institutions, it also led to the privatization of governance and the entrenching of conflicts. Within…
Towards a politics of collaborative worldmaking: Ethics, Epistemologies and Mutual Positionalities in Conflict Research
Scholarly engagement with ethics, epistemologies and positionalities dilemmas in conflict research is marked by a disconnect between self-referential debates in the Ivory Tower and the very places research takes place. If there is reflection on foreign researchers, research brokers or research participants, accounts of genuinely collaborative work are rare. Drawing from a decade of collaborative research in eastern Congo, our essay targets this g…
Brokering between (not so) overt and (not so) covert networks in conflict zones
There is a tendency to consider covert networks as separate from overt networks. Drawing on data from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, we demonstrate that this is not the case and identify how covert and overt networks are mutually constitutive. While most studies of African brokers have relied on network metaphors like 'Big Men' and 'social membranes', we consider the embeddedness of 'covert' networks in 'overt' networks explicitly. We perf…
Xerox soldiers, YouTube commanders and Twitter brigades: Information warfare in eastern Congo
Researching contemporary warfare requires attention to digital connectivity in contexts of crisis and conflict. This article traces the evolution of information warfare with a focus on the digitization, democratization and polarization of conflict-related communication and discourse. We argue that information warfare amplifies with the advent of social media—multiplying the scales for the conduct of hostilities, reducing distance and duration, an…
Between Tags & Guns: Fragmentations of public authority around eastern Congo's artisanal 3T mines
The politics of incontournables: Entrenching patronage networks in eastern Congo’s mineral markets
Years after the formal end of two devastating wars, the Congo’s eastern Kivu provinces meander in a limbo of contested politics, deep-seated insecurity and armed mobilisation. Through the prism of the artisanal mining sector, which is currently undergoing significant regulatory transformation, this article studies the convoluted networks of political and economic order that underpin (in)security. Investigating the links between violence, reform a…
Nonconventional Logistics: Rebellion, Resources and Rationalities in eastern Congo
Gerhard Heberer
Fighting windmills in Eastern Congo? The ambiguous impact of the ‘conflict minerals’ movement
"Terr(it)or(ies) of Peace? The Congolese Mining Frontier and the Fight Against "Conflict Minerals: Terr(it)or(ies) of Peace
This article traces the geography of the "conflict minerals" campaign and its impact on artisanal mining in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a region that currently emerges as a pioneer case of traceability and due diligence efforts with regard to the exploitation and trade in tantalum, tungsten and tin. We subsequently analyse the opening and attempted closure of the Congolese resource frontier in the context of recent market reform…
A miner’s canary in eastern Congo: Formalisation of artisanal 3T mining and precarious livelihoods in South Kivu
Histoire du politique au Congo-Kinshasa by Gauthier de Villers Louvain-la-Neuve: Academia L'Harmattan, 2016. Pp. 333. €36 (pbk)
reality that compels the post-colonial subject to endless impoverishing.To the author, humour points to the diversity, wildness and spontaneity of social life outside formal associations, the unmapped spaces where the governor and the governed blend into a spectrum of possibilities.In Chapter , 'Siddon Look' (titled after a phrase in Nigerian parlance which means sitting and watching but not participating nor interested in the event going on), th…
Brokers of crisis: The everyday uncertainty of Eastern Congo's mineral négociants
Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) artisanal mining sector is often linked to the violent conflicts that have beset Central Africa for over two decades. While many analyses emphasise its 'criminal' and 'illegal' nature, less attention has been paid to the ambiguity of this economy, most prominently incarnated by the intermediate mineral traders callednégociants. Focusing on their entrepreneurship, networks and everyday activities, t…
Kivu’s intractable security conundrum, revisited
‘The Security Problems of the Democratic Republic of Congo continue to puzzle international peace and policy makers’.1 This is how, in 2009, Koen Vlassenroot and Timothy Raeymaekers set out to explain conflict dynamics in the Kivu in this journal. They argued that while the peace process successfully unified the Congo and produced new, democratic institutions, it also led to the privatization of governance and the entrenching of conflicts. Within…
Between Tags & Guns: Fragmentations of public authority around eastern Congo's artisanal 3T mines
Brokering between (not so) overt and (not so) covert networks in conflict zones
There is a tendency to consider covert networks as separate from overt networks. Drawing on data from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, we demonstrate that this is not the case and identify how covert and overt networks are mutually constitutive. While most studies of African brokers have relied on network metaphors like 'Big Men' and 'social membranes', we consider the embeddedness of 'covert' networks in 'overt' networks explicitly. We perf…
The politics of incontournables: Entrenching patronage networks in eastern Congo’s mineral markets
Years after the formal end of two devastating wars, the Congo’s eastern Kivu provinces meander in a limbo of contested politics, deep-seated insecurity and armed mobilisation. Through the prism of the artisanal mining sector, which is currently undergoing significant regulatory transformation, this article studies the convoluted networks of political and economic order that underpin (in)security. Investigating the links between violence, reform a…
Towards a politics of collaborative worldmaking: Ethics, Epistemologies and Mutual Positionalities in Conflict Research
Scholarly engagement with ethics, epistemologies and positionalities dilemmas in conflict research is marked by a disconnect between self-referential debates in the Ivory Tower and the very places research takes place. If there is reflection on foreign researchers, research brokers or research participants, accounts of genuinely collaborative work are rare. Drawing from a decade of collaborative research in eastern Congo, our essay targets this g…
Xerox soldiers, YouTube commanders and Twitter brigades: Information warfare in eastern Congo
Researching contemporary warfare requires attention to digital connectivity in contexts of crisis and conflict. This article traces the evolution of information warfare with a focus on the digitization, democratization and polarization of conflict-related communication and discourse. We argue that information warfare amplifies with the advent of social media—multiplying the scales for the conduct of hostilities, reducing distance and duration, an…
Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique. Corinna Jentzsch
Journal Article Violent Resistance. Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique. Corinna Jentzsch Get access Corinna Jentzsch, Violent Resistance. Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ISBN 9781108837453, 300pp, £75, available as e-book. Conflict Research Group Conflict Research Group Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, adae008, https://doi.org/10.1…
Raids and Routes: The Intractable Fluidity of Conflict in the Postcolony
Kivu’s Intractable Security Conundrum, Redux
In January 2025, the March 23 movement (M23) captured the city of Goma for a second time, marking a deeply symbolic moment in the decades-long conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). North Kivu’s capital, home to 1.5 million people and hundreds of thousands of displaced persons who have fled surrounding areas amidst fighting since late 2021, had previously fallen to rebels on four occasions since 1996. In this latest itera…
Nonconventional Logistics: Rebellion, Resources and Rationalities in eastern Congo
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