Abstract
The analytical framework deployed by the extensive global value chain (GVC) literature on African mining fails to consider how and from whom value is transferred within the process of establishing foreign corporate-led mining GVCs, and with what consequences. The authors explore these questions through a case study of the gold value chain in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In this context, they argue that a coalition between transnational capital and the Congolese state has marginalised and held back locally led processes of capital accumulation and mining mechanisation. Based on the findings, the developmental potential of domestically embedded networks of African production is highlighted.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 161-177 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Review of African Political Economy |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue number | 168 |
| Early online date | 3 Feb 2021 |
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| Publication status | Published - 3 Feb 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the Leverhulme Trust: Study Abroad Studentship Grant SAS?2016?047, and the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek and the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique FNRS under EOS Project No. G0G4318N. The authors would like to thank Elie Lunanga and Salammb? Bulambo Mulonda for their assistance with data collection, as well as the Centre d?Expertise en Gestion Mini?re (CEGEMI) at the Catholic University of Bukavu for the institutional support provided.
Keywords
- Accumulation
- artisanal and small-scale mining
- corporations
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- mining
- upgrading
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Development
- Political Science and International Relations