El genocidio en el Congo Belga: una mirada filosófica y antropológica
Read Time:9 Minute, 54 Second Tras largos años de torturas y horrendas prácticas laborales, una luz de esperanza se iluminaba en el…
Read Time:9 Minute, 54 Second Tras largos años de torturas y horrendas prácticas laborales, una luz de esperanza se iluminaba en el…
El proyecto que presentamos es el primero de una posible serie de trabajos divulgativos destinados a la Universidad Rovira i Virgili y a otros centros educativos de ámbito…
Estimad@s lector@s, Quisiera haceros partícipes de una experiencia etnográfica que refleja la alargada sombra del colonialismo europeo en África, donde en la actualidad, aún se siguen produciendo sit…
Among the Mbendjele gathering-hunting people who live in the Republic of Congo, “women’s laughter manages to keep men in line.” Drawing from ethnographic research by Jerome Lewis, anthropo…
Breaking Rocks is a volume of the Dislocations series published by Berghahn Books, a series closely associated with Focaal and FocaalBlog. The immense dislocations and suffering caused by…
When Nancy Rose Hunt suggests that her book “joins the ferment” of colonial aggressions and uncertainties “while taking up harm and pleasure in a shrunken colonial milieu and…
Whenever there is armed conflict, sexual violence and rape, often against women and girls, soon emerge as central concerns in the global public. This is an important topic,…
This post is part of the Modes of Production feature moderated and edited by Patrick Neveling and Joe Trapido. From the sixteenth century onward, European trading networks grew…
Success stories are a powerful trope of international development and conservation work. They structure the way NGOs, governments and companies engage with powerful donors and public opinion. They…
The beautiful Lefini Reserve The first time I ever walked properly in the Congo Basin rainforest was two years ago. I felt like a huge, clumsy elephant –…
(Gosh, that was all getting a bit emo there for a minute wasn’t it? Like a fleeting return to my early naughties LiveJournal days. What’s needed here is…
So, I’ve been travelling and working in the Congo for about a month now and I already have an awful lot to write about – both the awesome…