Journal article
A darker shade of white: expat self-making in a Congolese rainforest enclave
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This article offers a new perspective on contemporary ‘whiteness’ in Africa by looking at the ambiguous ways in which it affects everyday life in and around the labour compounds of a multinational timber firm in the Congolese rainforest. As a foreign investment enclave, the logging concession is home to a small isolated community of European expatriate men whose ‘white’ faces evoke a set of ambivalent memories of colonial exploitation in the area. Through a carefully contextualized understand...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Accepted manuscript, pdf, 112.1KB)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1017/S0001972017000316
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Africa Journal website
- Volume:
- 87
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 683-701
- Publication date:
- 2017-10-26
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-01-13
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1750-0184
- ISSN:
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0001-9720
- Source identifiers:
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720334
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:720334
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uuid:785b096c-6dc6-4a27-bcc5-df9fc0f5b18c
- Local pid:
- pubs:720334
- Deposit date:
- 2017-08-17
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- © International African Institute 2017
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- This is the author accepted manuscript following peer review version of the article. The final version is available online from Cambridge University Press at: 10.1017/S0001972017000316
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