Jeroen Cuvelier
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 102074 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jeroen Cuvelier |
| PRENOMES | Jeroen |
| SOBRENOME | Cuvelier |
| ASSINATURA | CUVELIER J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5772-1691 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 124 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The politics of potentiality
Contested ‘commune rurales’
This article explores how decentralisation policy and specifically the establishment of communes rurales in DR Congo turned into a profoundly destabilising juncture, shaking existing governance arrangements. In particular, we examine how this has led to a reshuffle of power and a renegotiation of public authoritiy. By analysing the impact of decentralisation on the construction of and competition over public authority in three Congolese towns – R…
Why time matters for understanding the ASM-LSM nexus in south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
This article highlights the importance of studying the politics of time in the copper and cobalt mining sector of south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where a tense coexistence can be observed between artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) and large-scale mining (LSM). It is argued that inequality in ASM-LSM settings not only manifests itself spatially but also temporally. Faced with an uncertain future, ASM and LSM actors do not have the …
From ‘conflict minerals’ to peace? Reviewing mining reforms, gender, and state performance in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
For the last two decades, the Congolese Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector has been undergoing reforms of its governing structures. A recurrent argument supporting the reforms — predominantly in the 3T ASM sector (i.e. tin, tantalum and tungsten) — is that artisanal mining feeds violence (including sexual violence), conflicts, underdevelopment, and poverty. The reforms have been extensively studied, and academic research in turn has tr…
Mining in comparative perspective
Women, mining and power in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Local elites’ extraversion and repositioning
Money, migration and masculinity among artisanal miners in Katanga (DR Congo)
The Katangese artisanal mining sector has grown spectacularly since the late 1990s. Faced with political instability and economic crisis, tens of thousands of men have moved to the mining areas in order to find new sources of income. This article offers a detailed ethnographic description of how male migrant workers experience and cope with the challenging realities of life on the mines against the backdrop of recent changes in Katanga’s politica…
Containers, Carriers, Vehicles”
This introduction launches the new portfolio of articles on African mobilities and situates the three articles of this special section within the portfolio’s approach. This could be summarized in three key objectives. First, it seeks to highlight the inadequacy of enthusing in Africa simply as a venue where the itineraries of things and people from outside take place. Second, African mobilities is a way to signal the mobilities of Africans and th…
Not only a man's world
Resources, conflict and governance
Min(d)ing the land
Work and Masculinity in Katanga's Artisanal Mines
This article, based on 16 months of anthropological fieldwork between 2005 and 2012, examines the relationship between work and masculinity among artisanal miners, or creuseurs, in Katanga, the southeastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It argues that men's involvement in artisanal mining should be considered not only as an economic survival strategy but also as an attempt to experiment with new ways of being a man in a contex…
Réforme douanière néolibérale, fragilité étatique et pluralisme normatif
Dans le cadre d'une réforme des services douaniers congolais, la ville frontalière de Kasumbalesa a récemment été dotée d'un guichet unique. Bien que cette innovation soit considérée comme un tournant décisif dans le processus de formalisation du commerce international entre le Congo et l'Afrique australe, elle n'a pas mené à la disparition totale de la multitude d'arrangements officieux à la frontière. Dans cet article, le monde douanier de Kasu…
Doing business out of war. An analysis of the UPDF's presence in the Democratic Republic of Congo
This paper analyses how Ugandan army commanders have mobilised transborder economic networks to exploit economic opportunities in eastern DRC during the military intervention of the Ugandan People's Defence Force (UPDF) in Congo's wars (1996-97; 1998-2003). These transborder networks are the starting point of our evaluation of the informal political structures and networks linking Uganda's political centre to Congo's war complex. While it is ofte…
Of alien kings and perpetual kin
Words and processes in Mambila kinship
Réseaux de l'ombre et configurations régionales
Le conflit en République démocratique du Congo a donné naissance à une nouvelle régionalisation, informelle, qui se construit à côté de projets plus officiels comme la Communauté de développement d'Afrique australe (SADC). Les élites, à travers l'imbrication mouvante de réseaux locaux, nationaux, régionaux et internationaux, tendent à concentrer leurs efforts sur l'expansion de ces réseaux clientélistes plutôt que de s'attacher à construire un pr…
Work and Masculinity in Katanga's Artisanal Mines
This article, based on 16 months of anthropological fieldwork between 2005 and 2012, examines the relationship between work and masculinity among artisanal miners, or creuseurs, in Katanga, the southeastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It argues that men's involvement in artisanal mining should be considered not only as an economic survival strategy but also as an attempt to experiment with new ways of being a man in a contex…
Min(d)ing the land
Doing business out of war. An analysis of the UPDF's presence in the Democratic Republic of Congo
This paper analyses how Ugandan army commanders have mobilised transborder economic networks to exploit economic opportunities in eastern DRC during the military intervention of the Ugandan People's Defence Force (UPDF) in Congo's wars (1996-97; 1998-2003). These transborder networks are the starting point of our evaluation of the informal political structures and networks linking Uganda's political centre to Congo's war complex. While it is ofte…
From ‘conflict minerals’ to peace? Reviewing mining reforms, gender, and state performance in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
For the last two decades, the Congolese Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector has been undergoing reforms of its governing structures. A recurrent argument supporting the reforms — predominantly in the 3T ASM sector (i.e. tin, tantalum and tungsten) — is that artisanal mining feeds violence (including sexual violence), conflicts, underdevelopment, and poverty. The reforms have been extensively studied, and academic research in turn has tr…
Money, migration and masculinity among artisanal miners in Katanga (DR Congo)
The Katangese artisanal mining sector has grown spectacularly since the late 1990s. Faced with political instability and economic crisis, tens of thousands of men have moved to the mining areas in order to find new sources of income. This article offers a detailed ethnographic description of how male migrant workers experience and cope with the challenging realities of life on the mines against the backdrop of recent changes in Katanga’s politica…
Local elites’ extraversion and repositioning
Women, mining and power in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Containers, Carriers, Vehicles”
This introduction launches the new portfolio of articles on African mobilities and situates the three articles of this special section within the portfolio’s approach. This could be summarized in three key objectives. First, it seeks to highlight the inadequacy of enthusing in Africa simply as a venue where the itineraries of things and people from outside take place. Second, African mobilities is a way to signal the mobilities of Africans and th…
Réforme douanière néolibérale, fragilité étatique et pluralisme normatif
Dans le cadre d'une réforme des services douaniers congolais, la ville frontalière de Kasumbalesa a récemment été dotée d'un guichet unique. Bien que cette innovation soit considérée comme un tournant décisif dans le processus de formalisation du commerce international entre le Congo et l'Afrique australe, elle n'a pas mené à la disparition totale de la multitude d'arrangements officieux à la frontière. Dans cet article, le monde douanier de Kasu…
Réseaux de l'ombre et configurations régionales
Le conflit en République démocratique du Congo a donné naissance à une nouvelle régionalisation, informelle, qui se construit à côté de projets plus officiels comme la Communauté de développement d'Afrique australe (SADC). Les élites, à travers l'imbrication mouvante de réseaux locaux, nationaux, régionaux et internationaux, tendent à concentrer leurs efforts sur l'expansion de ces réseaux clientélistes plutôt que de s'attacher à construire un pr…
Mining in comparative perspective
Réseaux de l'ombre et configurations régionales
Le conflit en République démocratique du Congo a donné naissance à une nouvelle régionalisation, informelle, qui se construit à côté de projets plus officiels comme la Communauté de développement d'Afrique australe (SADC). Les élites, à travers l'imbrication mouvante de réseaux locaux, nationaux, régionaux et internationaux, tendent à concentrer leurs efforts sur l'expansion de ces réseaux clientélistes plutôt que de s'attacher à construire un pr…
Words and processes in Mambila kinship
Of alien kings and perpetual kin
Doing business out of war. An analysis of the UPDF's presence in the Democratic Republic of Congo
This paper analyses how Ugandan army commanders have mobilised transborder economic networks to exploit economic opportunities in eastern DRC during the military intervention of the Ugandan People's Defence Force (UPDF) in Congo's wars (1996-97; 1998-2003). These transborder networks are the starting point of our evaluation of the informal political structures and networks linking Uganda's political centre to Congo's war complex. While it is ofte…
Réforme douanière néolibérale, fragilité étatique et pluralisme normatif
Dans le cadre d'une réforme des services douaniers congolais, la ville frontalière de Kasumbalesa a récemment été dotée d'un guichet unique. Bien que cette innovation soit considérée comme un tournant décisif dans le processus de formalisation du commerce international entre le Congo et l'Afrique australe, elle n'a pas mené à la disparition totale de la multitude d'arrangements officieux à la frontière. Dans cet article, le monde douanier de Kasu…
Not only a man's world
Resources, conflict and governance
Min(d)ing the land
Work and Masculinity in Katanga's Artisanal Mines
This article, based on 16 months of anthropological fieldwork between 2005 and 2012, examines the relationship between work and masculinity among artisanal miners, or creuseurs, in Katanga, the southeastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It argues that men's involvement in artisanal mining should be considered not only as an economic survival strategy but also as an attempt to experiment with new ways of being a man in a contex…
Money, migration and masculinity among artisanal miners in Katanga (DR Congo)
The Katangese artisanal mining sector has grown spectacularly since the late 1990s. Faced with political instability and economic crisis, tens of thousands of men have moved to the mining areas in order to find new sources of income. This article offers a detailed ethnographic description of how male migrant workers experience and cope with the challenging realities of life on the mines against the backdrop of recent changes in Katanga’s politica…
Containers, Carriers, Vehicles”
This introduction launches the new portfolio of articles on African mobilities and situates the three articles of this special section within the portfolio’s approach. This could be summarized in three key objectives. First, it seeks to highlight the inadequacy of enthusing in Africa simply as a venue where the itineraries of things and people from outside take place. Second, African mobilities is a way to signal the mobilities of Africans and th…
Local elites’ extraversion and repositioning
Mining in comparative perspective
Women, mining and power in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo
From ‘conflict minerals’ to peace? Reviewing mining reforms, gender, and state performance in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
For the last two decades, the Congolese Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector has been undergoing reforms of its governing structures. A recurrent argument supporting the reforms — predominantly in the 3T ASM sector (i.e. tin, tantalum and tungsten) — is that artisanal mining feeds violence (including sexual violence), conflicts, underdevelopment, and poverty. The reforms have been extensively studied, and academic research in turn has tr…
Why time matters for understanding the ASM-LSM nexus in south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
This article highlights the importance of studying the politics of time in the copper and cobalt mining sector of south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where a tense coexistence can be observed between artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) and large-scale mining (LSM). It is argued that inequality in ASM-LSM settings not only manifests itself spatially but also temporally. Faced with an uncertain future, ASM and LSM actors do not have the …
Contested ‘commune rurales’
This article explores how decentralisation policy and specifically the establishment of communes rurales in DR Congo turned into a profoundly destabilising juncture, shaking existing governance arrangements. In particular, we examine how this has led to a reshuffle of power and a renegotiation of public authoritiy. By analysing the impact of decentralisation on the construction of and competition over public authority in three Congolese towns – R…
The politics of potentiality
Political science (15 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Mining and Resource Management (11 obras) · Politics (11 obras) · Democracy (8 obras) · Economics (7 obras) · Geography (7 obras) · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact (7 obras) · Law (7 obras)