The Eyes of the World : Mining the Digital Age in the Eastern DR Congo /: Mining the Digital Age in the Eastern DR Congo. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: James H. Smith.
• Authors: Smith, James H
• Contents: Part One: Orientations Prologue: An Introduction to the Personal, Methodological, and Spatiotemporal Scales of the Project 1. The Eyes of the World: Themes of Movement, Visualization, and (Dis)embodiment in Congolese Digital Minerals Extraction (an Introduction) Part Two: Mining Worlds 2. War Stories: Seeing the World through War 3. The Magic Chain: Interdimensional Movement in the Supply Chain for the 'Black Minerals' 4. Mining Futures in the Ruins Part Three: The Eyes of the World on Bisie and the Game of Tags 5. Bisie during the Time of Movement 6. Insects of the Forest 7. The Battle of Bisie 8. Closure 9. Game of Tags: Supply Chain Auditing as Purification Project Conclusion: Chains, Holes, and Wormholes Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index.
• Publisher Details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Copyright Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (368 pages)
• Subjects: Social Science -- General; Social Science -- Anthropology -- Cultural; Technology & Engineering -- Mining; History -- Africa -- Central
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226816050
• Related ISBNs: 9780226774350; 9780226816067
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