The Eyes of the World Mining the Digital Age in the Eastern DR Congo

Free Download James H. Smith, "The Eyes of the World: Mining the Digital Age in the Eastern DR Congo"
English | ISBN: 0226816060 | 2021 | 368 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The Eyes of the World focuses on the lives and experiences of Eastern Congolese people involved in extracting and transporting the minerals needed for digital devices.

The digital devices that, many would argue, define this era exist not only because of Silicon Valley innovations but also because of a burgeoning trade in dense, artisanally mined substances like tantalum, tin, and tungsten. In the tentatively postwar Eastern DR Congo, where many lives have been reoriented around artisanal mining, these minerals are socially dense, fueling movement and innovative collaborations that encompass diverse actors, geographies, temporalities, and dimensions. Focusing on the miners and traders of some of these "digital minerals,"
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