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dc.contributor.advisorSchönfelder, Walter
dc.contributor.authorSavio, Martina
dc.date.accessioned2010-05-27T11:26:46Z
dc.date.available2010-05-27T11:26:46Z
dc.date.issued2010-05-19
dc.description.abstractThe thesis deals with child labour in artisanal and small scale mines in two case studies: Kalima and Kampene, Province of Maniema, Democratic Republic of Congo. The paper answers three research questions: which are the working conditions of child miners, what is their self-perception, and what are the consequences of the lack of a functioning state for child miners. A qualitative approach is used, employing multiple-methods: interviews, observation, and audio-visual material with a support role. After describing the working conditions of children in the mining sites, the thesis focuses on the analysis of the self-perception of children following Rossatto’s “Freirean Mapping of Optimism and Desire” that identified four attitudes: antagonism, fatalistic optimism, resilient optimism, and transformative optimism. Combining this theoretical model and the empirical data gathered during fieldwork, an explanation of the attitudes of children towards their situation as “oppressed group” is given. Consequently, employing Freire’s theory of oppression, it was possible to analyse the answers of child miners concerning their future. This showed that children tend to legitimize myths (their oppressors) and to conceive their future as an intangible destiny, highlighting that the majority of child miners are in a pre-conscientização phase. The last section identifies the consequences of the lack of a functioning state on child miners, namely: lack of future critical intellectuals, dehumanization, powerlessness, marginalization, and inversion of roles. The thesis concludes with some future implications for both research as well as practice.en
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/2479
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-uit_munin_2226
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherUniversitetet i Tromsøen
dc.publisherUniversity of Tromsøen
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2010 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDSVF-3901nor
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Political science and organizational theory: 240::International politics: 243en
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Social work: 360en
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Law: 340::International law: 344en
dc.titleDynamics of oppression and state failure : cases of child labour in artisanal and small-scale mines, Democratic Republic of Congo.en
dc.typeMaster thesisen
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveen


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