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Vient de paraître Colonial Impotence. Virtue and Violence in a Congolese Concession (1911–1940) de Benoît Henriet chez De Gruyter Oldenburg

Le 25 août 2022 à 23h29

Vient de paraître Colonial Impotence. Virtue and Violence in a Congolese Concession (1911–1940) de Benoît Henriet chez De Gruyter Oldenburg, coll. "Africa in Global History", 2021, XIV-191 p. ISBN : 9783110648782 Prix : 84,95 €.
La version électronique est en open access, librement téléchargeable.


"In Colonial Impotence, Benoît Henriet studies the violent contradictions of colonial rule from the standpoint of the Leverville concession, Belgian Congo’s largest palm oil exploitation. Leverville was imagined as a benevolent tropical utopia, whose Congolese workers would be "civilized" through a paternalist machinery. However, the concession was marred by inefficiency, endemic corruption and intrinsic brutality. Colonial agents in the field could be seen as impotent, for they were both unable and unwilling to perform as expected. This book offers a new take on the joint experience of colonialism and capitalism in Southwest Congo, and sheds light on their impact on local environments, bodies, societies and cosmogonies."



Benoît Henriet (https://twitter.com/HenrietBenoit/), Assistant Professor of History (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium).