Publications and communications of Benjamin Rubbers

Rubbers, B. (2023). Mining and the Scalar Transformations of the State in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Journal of Modern African Studies, 61 (1), 73-90. doi:10.1017/S0022278X22000386

Rubbers, B. (2023). Company brokers: Human resources managers in foreign mining projects in the Congolese Copperbelt. Ethnography. doi:10.1177/1466138120948911

Lochery, E., & Rubbers, B. (2021). Human Resource Managers: Mediating Capital and Labour. In B. Rubbers, Inside Mining Capitalism: The Micropolitics of Work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts (pp. 127-148). United Kingdom: James Curry.

Rubbers, B. (Ed.). (2021). Inside Mining Capitalism. The Micropolitics of Work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts. James Currey.

Rubbers, B., & Lochery, E. (2021). Labour Regimes: A Comparative History. In B. Rubbers, Inside Mining Capitalism: The Micropolitics of Work on the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelts (pp. 27-54). United Kingdom: James Curry.

Rubbers, B. (2020). The dynamics of inequality in the congolese copperbelt: A discussion of Bourdieu’s theory of social space. In J. Noret, Social (im)mobilities in Africa. Ethnographic approaches. London, United Kingdom: Berghahn.

Rubbers, B. (2020). Regimes of responsibility in Africa. Towards a theoretical approach. In B. Rubbers & A. Jedlowski, Regimes of Responsibility in Africa: Genealogies, Rationalities, and Conflicts. Berghahn.

Rubbers, B. (2020). Governing new mining projects in D. R. Congo. A view from the HR department of a Chinese company. Extractive Industries and Society. doi:10.1016/j.exis.2019.12.006

Geenen, K., Rubbers, B., & Lochery, E. (September 2019). The micropolitics of Mining Capitalism [Paper presentation]. Workshop: The Micropolitics of Mining Capitalism, Liège, Belgium.

Rubbers, B. (2019). Mining Boom, Labour Market Segmentation and Social Inequality in the Congolese Copperbelt. Development and Change. doi:10.1111/dech.12531

Rubbers, B. (2018). Mining towns, enclaves, and spaces: A genealogy of worker camps in the Congolese copperbelt. Geoforum. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.10.005

Halleux, J.-M., Courtejoie, F., Dawance, S., Fagel, N., Frederich, M., Lebailly, P., Poncelet, M., Rubbers, B., & Bogaert, J. (2015). Territoires périurbains : développement, enjeux et perspectives dans les pays du Sud. Une introduction générale. In J. Bogaert & J.-M. Halleux, Territoires périurbains Développement, enjeux et perspectives dans les pays du Sud (pp. 21-29). Gembloux, Belgium: Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux.

Rubbers, B. (2013). Introduction au thème. Les sociétés africaines face aux investissements miniers. Politique Africaine, 131, 5-25.

Rubbers, B., & Petit, P. (Eds.). (2013). Identité, culture et intimité. Les stéréotypes dans la vie quotidienne. Institut de sociologie de l'ULB.

Rubbers, B., & Gallez, E. (2012). Why do Congolese people go to court? A qualitative study of litigants’ careers in two justice of the peace courts in Lubumbashi, D.R.Congo. Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 66, 79-108.

Rubbers, B. (2009). The story of a tragedy. How people in Haut-Katanga interpret the post-colonial history of Congo. Journal of Modern African Studies, 42 (2), 267-289. doi:10.1017/S0022278X09003838

Rubbers, B. (July 2007). Retour sur le "secteur informel". L'économie du Katanga (Congo-Zaïre) face à la falsification de la loi. Sociologie du Travail, 49 (3), 316-329. doi:10.1016/j.soctra.2007.06.024

Rubbers, B. (2006). Les mesures de la dissimulation. Les méthodes de recherche en sciences sociales face à la falsification de l'économie congolaise. Civilisations, 54 (1-2), 57-66.

Rubbers, B. (2004). The university of Lubumbashi between the local and the global: Dynamics, management, and future of university education in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 38 (2), 318-343.