Ben Radley
Biographic Data
| ID | 636592 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Radley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Radley |
| SIGNATURE | BEN RADLEY |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bath |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5474-7036 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Mining governance and green energy transitions: Developmental implications for the global south
Africa and permanent (global) wars
Africa and permanent (global) warsIn the history of capital, militarism has become a province of capital accumulation (Luxemburg 1913(Luxemburg (2003))).Militarism and wars -alongside waste -have become a key domain of capitalist accumulation in the age of US imperialism (Capasso and Kadri 2023).To remind the public that the war in Ukraine is not the only ongoing war, we stick to our remit: we keep eyes on Sudan, Palestine, the Democratic Republi…
Breaking the North–South divide? Reflections on the 2024 Program of Action on the Construction of a New International Economic Order
In September 2024, the Havana Group of the Progressive International launched its Program of Action on the Construction of a New International Economic Order. The launch was timed to mark the fiftieth anniversary of its namesake, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1974. Across its 31 proposed measures for coordinated action, the new Program seeks to revive the anti-colonial, anti-imperialist Third Worldism embodied by the original …
Conflict Minerals Inc: War, Profit and White Saviourism in Eastern Congo . Christoph N. Vogel
Green imperialism, sovereignty, and the quest for national development in the Congo
This article deploys the term ‘green imperialism’ to denote the specificities of contemporary imperialism within the context of the hoped-for global transition towards low-carbon capitalist economies and societies in the coming decades. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) provides a modern exemplar of green imperialist dynamics in action. Hegemonic powers are seeking to position the Congolese economy as an exporter of low-cost, low-carbon …
Common Challenges for All? A Critical Engagement with the Emerging Vision for Post-pandemic Development Studies
The COVID-19 pandemic motivated calls for the field of development studies to be recast. This article analyses two prominent, future-gazing 'pandemic papers' to illustrate salient features of the ascendant trend towards a new 'global development' paradigm. By unpacking and interpreting major lines of reasoning put forward by two agenda-setting articles, this contribution appraises how these texts make the case for the future of development studie…
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa
In this section of the journal, we aim to give readers of the print journal a picture of what has been published on Roape.net over the last few months, and invite you to connect and follow the articles, blogposts, authors and debates online. Details of all the blogposts referred to here are in the reference list at the end. We warmly invite all our readers to sign up to the Roape.net newsletter and WhatsApp service at the top of the home page of …
Off-grid solar expansion and economic development in the global South: A critical review and research agenda
In this paper, we seek to understand how the rapid expansion of off-grid solar energy across the global South since the turn of the century is influencing local and national processes of economic development. We do so through a systematic review of 125 papers published between 2001 and 2020 that provide much evidence and understanding on the topic. Ninety-six of the reviewed papers claim off-grid solar expansion has positively influenced economic…
Technologies and transformations. Traces from a collective research project
Productivity and profitability: Investigating the economic impact of gold mining mechanisation in Kamituga, DR Congo
In South Kivu Province of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the use of new technologies in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has proliferated over the course of the last decade. Based on a case study of ASGM mechanisation in the major mining town of Kamituga, we investigate the economic impact of this process on the productivity of ASGM and the profitability of its operations. Drawing on a wide range of qualitative and quan…
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa
In this section of the journal, we aim to give readers of the print journal a picture of what has been published on Roape.net over the last few months, and invite you to connect and follow the articles, blogposts, authors and debates online. Details of all the blogposts referred to here are in the reference list at the end. We warmly invite all our readers to sign up to the Roape.net newsletter and WhatsApp service at the top of the home page of …
Class formation and capital accumulation in the countryside: Artisanal and small‐scale gold mining in South Kivu, DR Congo
To date, the expansive social science literature on artisanal and small‐scale mining (ASM) in Africa has received little attention from scholars of agrarian political economy. This paper attempts to bridge this gap, based on an in‐depth study of ASM in South Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The main argument is that the capital–labour social relation underpinning ASM in South Kivu has facilitated the emergence of a capitalis…
Struggles over value: Corporate–state suppression of locally led mining mechanisation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The analytical framework deployed by the extensive global value chain (GVC) literature on African mining fails to consider how and from whom value is transferred within the process of establishing foreign corporate-led mining GVCs, and with what consequences. The authors explore these questions through a case study of the gold value chain in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In this context, they argue that a coalition between transnational c…
Sustainable minerals and metals for a low-carbon future
Policy coordination is needed for global supply chains
A Distributional Analysis of Artisanal and Industrial Wage Levels and Expenditure in the Congolese Mining Sector
Across low–income African countries, a process of foreign–controlled mining (re)industrialisation has been underway since the 1980s, gathering pace during the most recent decade. This paper aims to shed light on the long–term effects of this process on the strength and vibrancy of local mining economies. It does so through the analysis of original empirical data collected during 15 months of fieldwork at and around an industrial gold mine in Sout…
The End of the African Mining Enclave? Domestic Marginalization and Labour Fragmentation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Africa-focused global value chain (GVC) scholars argue that the new mining industry practice of corporate outsourcing invalidates the traditional enclave thesis by providing new opportunities to support domestic firms and stimulate industrialization. However, this literature has clustered around Africa's middle- and high-income countries and its analytical approach abandons the centre-periphery framework within which its earlier antecedents were …
A miner’s canary in eastern Congo: Formalisation of artisanal 3T mining and precarious livelihoods in South Kivu
Fighting windmills in Eastern Congo? The ambiguous impact of the ‘conflict minerals’ movement
In the face of reform: What future for ASM in the eastern DRC
In the face of reform: What future for ASM in the eastern DRC
Common Challenges for All? A Critical Engagement with the Emerging Vision for Post-pandemic Development Studies
The COVID-19 pandemic motivated calls for the field of development studies to be recast. This article analyses two prominent, future-gazing 'pandemic papers' to illustrate salient features of the ascendant trend towards a new 'global development' paradigm. By unpacking and interpreting major lines of reasoning put forward by two agenda-setting articles, this contribution appraises how these texts make the case for the future of development studie…
Fighting windmills in Eastern Congo? The ambiguous impact of the ‘conflict minerals’ movement
Struggles over value: Corporate–state suppression of locally led mining mechanisation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The analytical framework deployed by the extensive global value chain (GVC) literature on African mining fails to consider how and from whom value is transferred within the process of establishing foreign corporate-led mining GVCs, and with what consequences. The authors explore these questions through a case study of the gold value chain in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In this context, they argue that a coalition between transnational c…
A miner’s canary in eastern Congo: Formalisation of artisanal 3T mining and precarious livelihoods in South Kivu
Green imperialism, sovereignty, and the quest for national development in the Congo
This article deploys the term ‘green imperialism’ to denote the specificities of contemporary imperialism within the context of the hoped-for global transition towards low-carbon capitalist economies and societies in the coming decades. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) provides a modern exemplar of green imperialist dynamics in action. Hegemonic powers are seeking to position the Congolese economy as an exporter of low-cost, low-carbon …
Productivity and profitability: Investigating the economic impact of gold mining mechanisation in Kamituga, DR Congo
In South Kivu Province of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the use of new technologies in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has proliferated over the course of the last decade. Based on a case study of ASGM mechanisation in the major mining town of Kamituga, we investigate the economic impact of this process on the productivity of ASGM and the profitability of its operations. Drawing on a wide range of qualitative and quan…
The End of the African Mining Enclave? Domestic Marginalization and Labour Fragmentation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Africa-focused global value chain (GVC) scholars argue that the new mining industry practice of corporate outsourcing invalidates the traditional enclave thesis by providing new opportunities to support domestic firms and stimulate industrialization. However, this literature has clustered around Africa's middle- and high-income countries and its analytical approach abandons the centre-periphery framework within which its earlier antecedents were …
In the face of reform: What future for ASM in the eastern DRC
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
Sustainable minerals and metals for a low-carbon future
Policy coordination is needed for global supply chains
A Distributional Analysis of Artisanal and Industrial Wage Levels and Expenditure in the Congolese Mining Sector
Across low–income African countries, a process of foreign–controlled mining (re)industrialisation has been underway since the 1980s, gathering pace during the most recent decade. This paper aims to shed light on the long–term effects of this process on the strength and vibrancy of local mining economies. It does so through the analysis of original empirical data collected during 15 months of fieldwork at and around an industrial gold mine in Sout…
The End of the African Mining Enclave? Domestic Marginalization and Labour Fragmentation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Africa-focused global value chain (GVC) scholars argue that the new mining industry practice of corporate outsourcing invalidates the traditional enclave thesis by providing new opportunities to support domestic firms and stimulate industrialization. However, this literature has clustered around Africa's middle- and high-income countries and its analytical approach abandons the centre-periphery framework within which its earlier antecedents were …
Class formation and capital accumulation in the countryside: Artisanal and small‐scale gold mining in South Kivu, DR Congo
To date, the expansive social science literature on artisanal and small‐scale mining (ASM) in Africa has received little attention from scholars of agrarian political economy. This paper attempts to bridge this gap, based on an in‐depth study of ASM in South Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The main argument is that the capital–labour social relation underpinning ASM in South Kivu has facilitated the emergence of a capitalis…
Struggles over value: Corporate–state suppression of locally led mining mechanisation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The analytical framework deployed by the extensive global value chain (GVC) literature on African mining fails to consider how and from whom value is transferred within the process of establishing foreign corporate-led mining GVCs, and with what consequences. The authors explore these questions through a case study of the gold value chain in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In this context, they argue that a coalition between transnational c…
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa
In this section of the journal, we aim to give readers of the print journal a picture of what has been published on Roape.net over the last few months, and invite you to connect and follow the articles, blogposts, authors and debates online. Details of all the blogposts referred to here are in the reference list at the end. We warmly invite all our readers to sign up to the Roape.net newsletter and WhatsApp service at the top of the home page of …
Off-grid solar expansion and economic development in the global South: A critical review and research agenda
In this paper, we seek to understand how the rapid expansion of off-grid solar energy across the global South since the turn of the century is influencing local and national processes of economic development. We do so through a systematic review of 125 papers published between 2001 and 2020 that provide much evidence and understanding on the topic. Ninety-six of the reviewed papers claim off-grid solar expansion has positively influenced economic…
Technologies and transformations. Traces from a collective research project
Productivity and profitability: Investigating the economic impact of gold mining mechanisation in Kamituga, DR Congo
In South Kivu Province of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the use of new technologies in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has proliferated over the course of the last decade. Based on a case study of ASGM mechanisation in the major mining town of Kamituga, we investigate the economic impact of this process on the productivity of ASGM and the profitability of its operations. Drawing on a wide range of qualitative and quan…
Connecting people and voices for radical change in Africa
In this section of the journal, we aim to give readers of the print journal a picture of what has been published on Roape.net over the last few months, and invite you to connect and follow the articles, blogposts, authors and debates online. Details of all the blogposts referred to here are in the reference list at the end. We warmly invite all our readers to sign up to the Roape.net newsletter and WhatsApp service at the top of the home page of …
Green imperialism, sovereignty, and the quest for national development in the Congo
This article deploys the term ‘green imperialism’ to denote the specificities of contemporary imperialism within the context of the hoped-for global transition towards low-carbon capitalist economies and societies in the coming decades. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) provides a modern exemplar of green imperialist dynamics in action. Hegemonic powers are seeking to position the Congolese economy as an exporter of low-cost, low-carbon …
Common Challenges for All? A Critical Engagement with the Emerging Vision for Post-pandemic Development Studies
The COVID-19 pandemic motivated calls for the field of development studies to be recast. This article analyses two prominent, future-gazing 'pandemic papers' to illustrate salient features of the ascendant trend towards a new 'global development' paradigm. By unpacking and interpreting major lines of reasoning put forward by two agenda-setting articles, this contribution appraises how these texts make the case for the future of development studie…
Conflict Minerals Inc: War, Profit and White Saviourism in Eastern Congo . Christoph N. Vogel
Africa and permanent (global) wars
Africa and permanent (global) warsIn the history of capital, militarism has become a province of capital accumulation (Luxemburg 1913(Luxemburg (2003))).Militarism and wars -alongside waste -have become a key domain of capitalist accumulation in the age of US imperialism (Capasso and Kadri 2023).To remind the public that the war in Ukraine is not the only ongoing war, we stick to our remit: we keep eyes on Sudan, Palestine, the Democratic Republi…
Breaking the North–South divide? Reflections on the 2024 Program of Action on the Construction of a New International Economic Order
In September 2024, the Havana Group of the Progressive International launched its Program of Action on the Construction of a New International Economic Order. The launch was timed to mark the fiftieth anniversary of its namesake, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1974. Across its 31 proposed measures for coordinated action, the new Program seeks to revive the anti-colonial, anti-imperialist Third Worldism embodied by the original …
Mining governance and green energy transitions: Developmental implications for the global south
Economics (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Mining and Resource Management (10 works) · Democracy (8 works) · Development economics (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works)