« C’était bien à l’époque mais l’avenir iko sombre » Negotiating Nostalgia with and among Ex-Mineworkers in Lubumbashi (DRC)
Why do former mineworkers in Lubumbashi (DRC) remember exploitative working conditions and measures to control their private lives with nostalgia? Building on their 'objects of loss', this book answers this question, foregrounding the voice of so-called 'Départs Volontaires’. The stud...
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| Abstract | Why do former mineworkers in Lubumbashi (DRC) remember exploitative working conditions and measures to control their private lives with nostalgia? Building on their 'objects of loss', this book answers this question, foregrounding the voice of so-called 'Départs Volontaires’. The study combines linguistics, anthropology, and archives research to explore what ex-mineworkers regard as material and emotional 'objects of loss'. The book advocates for a participatory research framework called ‘the baraza web’ which merges the researcher’s perspective with the standpoint of the ex-miners to create an alternative archive and to show that power relations within a research setting need constant questioning. |
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| AbstractList | How can exploitative living and working conditions be remembered with nostalgia? This monograph offers an analysis of the specific form of the 'nostalgia-based master narrative' used by ex-mineworkers in Lubumbashi (DR Congo) as a solution to current problems and the future. On the methodological level, questions of crucial importance for the above-mentioned point are addressed, such as contextual and group knowledge production and the communicative processes involved.
Wie kann man sich mit Nostalgie an ausbeuterische Lebens- und Arbeitsbedingungen erinnern? Die vorliegende Monographie bietet eine Analyse der spezifischen Form des „nostalgiebasierten Narrativs“, das von ehemaligen Minenarbeitern in Lubumbashi (DR Kongo) verwendet wird. Auf der methodischen Ebene werden Fragen behandelt, die für die oben genannte Fragestellung von zentraler Bedeutung sind, wie z.B. die kontext- und gruppenbezogene Wissensproduktion und die damit verbundenen kommunikativen Prozesse. Why do former mineworkers in Lubumbashi (DRC) remember exploitative working conditions and measures to control their private lives with nostalgia? Building on their 'objects of loss', this book answers this question, foregrounding the voice of so-called 'Départs Volontaires'. Why do former mineworkers in Lubumbashi (DRC) remember exploitative working conditions and measures to control their private lives with nostalgia? Building on their 'objects of loss', this book answers this question, foregrounding the voice of so-called 'Départs Volontaires’. The study combines linguistics, anthropology, and archives research to explore what ex-mineworkers regard as material and emotional 'objects of loss'. The book advocates for a participatory research framework called ‘the baraza web’ which merges the researcher’s perspective with the standpoint of the ex-miners to create an alternative archive and to show that power relations within a research setting need constant questioning. |
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| Subtitle | Negotiating Nostalgia with and among Ex-Mineworkers in Lubumbashi (DRC) |
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