Book presentation - Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession

27-04-2022

Book presentation:

Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession

CRG and MENARG kindly invite you to the book presentation of 'Rainforest Capitalism' (Duke University Press, 2022) by Dr. Thomas Hendriks (KU Leuven), followed by a panel discussion with Dr. Soraya El Kahlaoui (MENARG) and Prof. Maria Martin de Almagro (CRG), and a Q&A, chaired by Dr. Siggie Vertommen (MENARG, CRGC).

Date: Wednesday 27th of April, 17:00 - 19:00

Location: Auditorium D - Campus UFO Technicum; Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, 9000, Gent

https://www.dukeupress.edu/rainforest-capitalism

https://www.ugent.be/ps/nl/campusplan-technicum

Biography Thomas:

Thomas Hendriks is an FWO Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven. He is the author of Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Logging Concession (Duke University Press, 2022) and co-editor of Readings in Sexualities from Africa (Indiana University Press, 2020). Before studying anthropology he graduated as bio-engineer in land and forest management at the UGent (2005).