“Elusive natives”: escaping colonial control in the Leverville oil palm concession, Belgian Congo, 1923–1941
Throughout the inter-war period, in the Belgian Congo’s largest oil palm concession, thousands of colonised workers and their families managed to escape administrative surveillance and authority through schemes of dissimulation and elusiveness. The shared nature of sovereignty imposed on this territory, distributed between private and public agents, along with a sparse territorial occupation, left extended areas unsupervised by Western actors and indirect rulers. In these remote places, palm-fruit cutters, with the blessing of their employers, could settle without having to answer to authority... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2015 |
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Taylor & Francis
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Schlagwörter: | colonialism / labour / interwar / migration / resistance |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26526642 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/2078/179705 |