Together with Divin-Luc Bikubanya I published “Heterogeneity and Labour Agency in Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo” in Development and Change (online first). Abstract: This article considers the broad question of how to improve the… Continue Reading
Bikubanya, D.L.; Arian, H.; Geenen, S. and Katz-Lavigne, S. (2023) Due Diligence in Mineral Supply Chains from the Democratic Republic of Congo. E-International Relations. Due Diligence in Mineral Supply Chains from the Democratic Republic of Congo (e-ir.info) Bikubanya, D.L.; Arian, H.;… Continue Reading
Article. Women who “age too fast” This article is part of a special issue on Technologies and Transformations in Congolese ASGM in The Extractive Industries and Society. Geenen, S.; Kabilambali, G.; Mussa Bashizi, F. & Vanlerberghe, E. (2022) Women who… Continue Reading
I have been invited by Graham Prescott to contribute to this article, which asks the question how to formalize ASGM, how much it will cost, and who has to pay for it. Prescott, Graham; Baird, Matthew; Geenen, Sara; Nkuba, Bossissi;… Continue Reading
Focus sur l’emploi dans les sous-traitances Between 2017 and 2019 we did research in three different mining concessions in Eastern DRC, focusing on labour in subcontracting companies working for multinational gold miners. The research was funded by FWO and resulted… Continue Reading
Together with Ben Radley I published a new article in Review of African Political Economy: Struggles over value: corporate–state suppression of locally led mining mechanisation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We also have a shorter blog version. The analytical… Continue Reading
I teach a course on qualitative data analysis (principles, coding and the use of NVivo) in the master programme at the Institute of Development Policy at the University of Antwerp. NVivo is the software programme for qualitative data analysis I use in my… Continue Reading
Co-edited with Boris Verbrugge and published by Palgrave. Part of the InForMining project. Individual chapters are presented in these blog posts. In recent decades, gold mining has moved into increasingly remote corners of the globe. Aside from the expansion of industrial gold mining,… Continue Reading
It is a simple question, but one to which we have surprisingly few quantified answers: how much do artisanal miners earn? In this Resources Policy article, co-authored with Nik Stoop and Marijke Verpoorten, we try to find out how much different… Continue Reading
In my new contribution to the debate on extractive industries and development I zoom in on the concept of ‘local content’. I argue that local content policies are implemented in complex political arenas, where the power holders use them as political… Continue Reading