Light, dark and the powers that be: a hydroelectric project in Butembo

Geenen, Kristien

doi:10.1080/00083968.2016.1276849

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“…3 In fact, research shows that the business class have repeatedly used violence to sabotage or hijack development projects to preserve their trade monopolies and political power. 4,5 It seems to be widely accepted that interacting with customary authorities in Sierra Leone was effective in stemming the Ebola epidemic, yet there is some evidence, albeit highly contested, that chiefs were sometimes part of a counterproductively militarised response to Ebola. 6 Although such findings might be selective and need to be approached cautiously, I would urge those interested in public health not to dismiss the claims pre-emptively, as they align with much that is known about the violence and ambivalence associated with authority in the region.…”

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Ebola: public trust, intermediaries, and rumour in the DR Congo

Trapido

2019

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

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next 3 years. This prolonged increase in risk is similar to that seen in low-incidence countries, 8 suggesting that even in this high-burden setting, reactivation rather than reinfection dominates the risk in these initial years. Together, these results support giving preventive treatment to adult household contacts in high-incidence settings. Moreover, household interventions provide a platform for delivering preventive treatment in adults, who are already being assessed as part of contact investigations and whose children or younger siblings might already be receiving preventive treatment. Comprehensive approaches that actively detected, prevented, and treated all forms of tuberculosis were key to pronounced declines in tuberculosis in New York in the 1990s 9 and in Alaska decades earlier. 10 Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of ending the global tuberculosis epidemic by 2030 will require proactive use of the full arsenal of interventions available today, and rapid integration of innovation, to promptly reach high-risk and vulnerable populations with preventive and curative treatments. 11,12 Tuberculosis has long been recognised as a disease linked to inequality; active casefinding strategies that promote equity are essential to disrupt that link.

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Ebola: public trust, intermediaries, and rumour in the DR Congo

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2019

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

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“…He did not flee home as a last resort but moved to Dar es Salaam to explore opportunities. Of course, one could argue that in a conflict-afflicted area and in a city (Butembo) that suffers from deficient infrastructure (Geenen, 2017) there were not many opportunities for him. Nevertheless, when asked about this, Nathan-2K was stern: No, he did not come to Tanzania fleeing war!…”

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Homemaking through Music in Urban Africa: Creating Opportunities as a Refugee and a Migrant in Kinshasa and Dar es Salaam

Wilson

2023

Refugee Youth

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The following full text is a publisher's version.For additional information about this publication click this link. https://repository.ubn.ru.nl/handle/2066/297076Please be advised that this information was generated on 2024-06-02 and may be subject to change. Article 25fa End User AgreementThis publication is distributed under the terms of Article 25fa of the Dutch Copyright Act. This article entitles the maker of a short scientific work funded either wholly or partially by Dutch public funds to make that work publicly available for no consideration following a reasonable period of time after the work was first published, provided that clear reference is made to the source of the first publication of the work.Research outputs of researchers employed by Dutch Universities that comply with the legal requirements of Article 25fa of the Dutch Copyright Act, are distributed online and free of cost or other barriers in institutional repositories. Research outputs are distributed six months after their first online publication in the original published version and with proper attribution to the source of the original publication.

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From reactionary modernization to endogenous development: the revolution in hydroelectricity in Venezuela

Kappeler

2017

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For much of the twentieth century, Venezuela was regarded as one of the developing nations destined to take its place among the affluent societies of the world. The spectacular infrastructure projects sponsored by the Venezuelan government and funded with revenue from the petroleum industry were taken as evidence of progress and the impending arrival of modernity. Showcasing the technical prowess of the Venezuelan state, these projects captured the national imagination and won consent for political elites by calling forth aspirations for total societal transformation. In this article, I explore the reconstruction of hegemonic consent as part of one such project-a hydroelectric dam in the state of Barinas-and the survival of a vision of progress through the built environment, even after the social-economic crisis of the late twentieth century. Drawing on fieldwork in areas near the formerly incomplete project site, I account for what, at first glance, seem to be drastic shifts in local political allegiances and incongruous support for the conservative military dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez and the Bolivarian Government of Hugo Chavez. Suggesting that a high modernist vision of development is a pivot for hegemonic consent, I argue that the completion of this dam after a long hiatus has won the support of a caste of state workers and that the backing of these workers is crucial to the preservation of organized political power.

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Light, dark and the powers that be: a hydroelectric project in Butembo

Cited by 5 publications

References 19 publications

Ebola: public trust, intermediaries, and rumour in the DR Congo

Ebola: public trust, intermediaries, and rumour in the DR Congo

Homemaking through Music in Urban Africa: Creating Opportunities as a Refugee and a Migrant in Kinshasa and Dar es Salaam

From reactionary modernization to endogenous development: the revolution in hydroelectricity in Venezuela

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