Programme:
– J. Lagae and R. Fivez:‘Housing the cheminots and the dockeurs. The spatial policies of the OTRACO in the Bas-Congo and the port city of Matadi, 1935-1960’
– T. Hendriks: ‘Bored, Nervous and Ecstatic: Life and Affect in a Congolese Logging Camp’
– F. Pugliese: ‘Housing patterns in a frontier mining town. The case of Sakania, DRC’
– D. Waldburger: ‘Kazi na kuwa mfanyakazi – c’était bien à l’époque – conception of work and life by Gécamines workers’ in Lubumbashi’
K. Geenen, ‘The uneasy location of a mining camp in Kolwezi’
– B. Rubbers, ‘Reflections on the spatial government of mining companies. A genealogy of worker housing in the Congolese copperbelt’