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- Title
The art of governing contingency: rethinking the colonial history of diamond mining in Sierra Leone.
- Authors
D'Angelo, Lorenzo
- Abstract
This article briefly outlines the history of the colonial diamond industry of Sierra Leone from 1930 to 1961, highlighting its contingent aspects and the bonds guiding the decisions and actions taken by local social actors in different contexts and at different times. By drawing on colonial documents and memoirs of colonial officers, it shows how the colonial government of Sierra Leone and the mining company that exercised a monopoly on diamond extraction collaborated on the establishment of a series of legislative and disciplinary devices that encompassed forms of biopolitical expertise.
- Subjects
SIERRA Leone; DIAMOND mining; MATERIALISM; POLITICAL stability; SIERRA Leone politics &; government, 1896-1961; JUSTICE administration -- History; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Historical Research, 2016, Vol 89, Issue 243, p136
- ISSN
0950-3471
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-2281.12103