2011/01/01 by Anouk de Koning · 43 citations
Social Sciences · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Engineering · #Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy #Urban and Rural Development Challenges #Land Rights and Reforms #Census #Bauxite #Narrative #Work (physics) #Oral history #Social life #Everyday life #Social history (medicine) #Geography #Archaeology #History #Sociology #Ethnology #Political science #Demography #Art #Law #Engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.1163/13822373-90002430
published in New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 85(3-4), 215-246 (Brill)
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This article explores the social history of Suriname’s first bauxite town, Moengo, founded in the late 1910s. It recounts the rise of a new industry that drew workers away from the plantations and urban artisanal occupations to work in a massive, highly organized and orchestrated organization-cum-social community. Using oral narratives about life in Moengo, as well as census and other statistical data, this contribution asks whether everyday life in the mining enclave echoed features of the plantation.