« C’était bien à l’époque mais l’avenir iko sombre » Negotiating Nostalgia with and among Ex-Mineworkers in Lubumbashi (DRC)

• Main Author: Waldburger, Daniela
• Format: eBook
• Language: English; Swahili
• Published: Boston Brill 2025; BRILL
• Edition: 1
• Series: Africa Multiple
• Subjects: African history; African studies; Afrikanische Geschichte; Afrikanistik; Agriculture; allgemein; allgemein (JB); Archaeology > History; Archaeology > Social history; Archäologie > Geschichte; Archäologie > Sozialgeschichte; barazaweb; Bergbautechnik; Cultural anthropology; Democratic Republic of Congo; Demokratische Republik Kongo; DR Congo; DR Kongo; Départs Volontaires; Engineering; Ex-Minenarbeiter; Ex-mineworkers; Familiengeschichte; Gesellschaft und Kultur; Geteilte Autorität; Hobbies and Leisure (W) > Local and family history; Hobbys und Freizeit (W) > Heimatkunde; Industrial processes (T) > Other technologies and applied sciences (TT) > Mining technology and engineering (TTU); Industrieprozesse (T) > Andere Technologien und verwandte Wissenschaften (TT) > Bergbautechnik (TTU); Ingenieurswissenschaft; Katanga; Knowledge Production; Kulturanthropologie; Landwirtschaft; Loss; memories; mine workers; Mining technology and engineering; Nostalgia; nostalgia (WQ) > Nostalgia: general (WQN); Nostalgia: general; Nostalgie; Nostalgie (WQ) > Nostalgie: Sachbuch (WQN); Nostalgie: Sachbuch; Participative Research Methods; Partizipative Forschungsmethoden; reflexivity; Respect; Respekt; Shared Authority; Social and cultural history; Social history; Society and culture: general; Sociolinguistics; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte; Sozialgeschichte; Soziolinguistik; Stability; Stabilität; Thema Klassifizierung > Geographische Qualifier > Afrika (1H) > Subsahara-Afrika (1HF) > Zentralafrika (1HFJ) > Demokratische Republik Kongo (1HFJZ); Thema Klassifizierung > Geschichte und Archäologie (N) > Geschichte (NH) > Afrikanische Geschichte (NHH); Thema Klassifizierung > Geschichte und Archäologie (N) > Geschichte (NH) > Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen (NHT) > Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte (NHTB); Thema Klassifizierung > Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften (J) > Gesellschaft und Kultur; Thema Klassifizierung > Lifestyle; Thema Klassifizierung > Technologie; Thema Subject Codes > History and Archaeology (N) > History (NH) > African history (NHH); Thema Subject Codes > History and Archaeology (N) > History (NH) > History: specific events and topics (NHT) > Social and cultural history (NHTB); Thema Subject Codes > Lifestyle; Thema Subject Codes > Place qualifiers > Africa (1H) > Sub-Saharan Africa (1HF) > Central Africa (1HFJ) > Democratic Republic of Congo (1HFJZ); Thema Subject Codes > Society and Social Sciences (J) > Society and culture: general (JB); Thema Subject Codes > Technology; Union Miniière du Haut-Katanga; Union Minière du Haut-Katanga; Verlust; Wissensproduktion; World Bank reforms; ÖFOS 2012 > GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN > Geschichte; ÖFOS 2012 > GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften > Afrikanistik; ÖFOS 2012 > GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften > Soziolinguistik; ÖFOS 2012 > HUMANITIES > History; ÖFOS 2012 > HUMANITIES > Linguistics and Literature > Linguistics and Literature > African studies; ÖFOS 2012 > HUMANITIES > Linguistics and Literature > Linguistics and Literature > Sociolinguistics; ÖFOS 2012 > SOCIAL SCIENCES > Sociology > Sociology > Cultural anthropology; ÖFOS 2012 > SOZIALWISSENSCHAFTEN > Soziologie > Soziologie > Kulturanthropologie
• ISBN: 9789004724907; 9789004724891; 9004724893; 9004724907
• DOI: 10.1163/9789004724907

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.