BIBFRAME Work

Title

"C'était bien à l'époque mais l'avenir iko sombre"

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Waldburger, Daniela (aut)

Subject

• Nostalgia--Social aspects--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Lubumbashi (LCSH)
• Lubumbashi (Congo)--Social conditions (LCSH)
• Participant observation--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Lubumbashi (LCSH)
• Miners--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Lubumbashi--Social conditions (LCSH)
• Collective memory--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Lubumbashi (LCSH)

Language

• eng

Illustrative Content

• illustrations

Classification

• LCC: HD8039.M61 C678 2025 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
• DDC: 331.7/62209675188 (Assigner: dlc)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography
• index

Summary

"Why do former mineworkers in Lubumbashi (DRC) remember exploitative working conditions and measures to control their private lives with nostalgia? Building on their 'objects of loss', this book answers this question, foregrounding the voice of so-called 'Départs Volontaires'. The study combines linguistics, anthropology, and archives research to explore what ex-mineworkers regard as material and emotional 'objects of loss'. The book advocates for a participatory research framework called 'the baraza web' which merges the researcher's perspective with the standpoint of the ex-miners to create an alternative archive and to show that power relations within a research setting need constant questioning"-- Provided by publisher.

Authorized Access Point

Waldburger, Daniela. "C'était bien à l'époque mais l'avenir iko sombre"

Geographic Coverage

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-30T17:49:23.836387+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 24132859

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-30
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc