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Ben Radley
Political Economist
Researching energy, mining, and labour in the context of green transitions, with a regional focus on Africa and Asia-Pacific.
Books
“The analysis in this book should inspire policy makers in African countries who hope to chart a new course towards resource-based industrialization that is transformative, inclusive, and sustainable”
Léonce Ndikumana, Distinguished Professor of Economics
An edited collection of 38 interviews bringing to life older voices of liberation and lost radical histories alongside newer initiatives, projects, and activists engaged in contemporary struggles to reshape Africa. Voices include Samir Amin, Issa Shivji, Hakim Adi, and Marjorie Mbilinyi.
Writing
Mining
Dirty metals for clean energy
Podcast with The Red Line (November 2022)
The ceding of African resource sovereignty to foreign mining corporations
Book excerpt for Review of African Political Economy (November 2023)
Mining hierarchies
Podcast with Hiearchies of Development (June 2022)
En RD Congo, le colonialisme économique devenu pillage généralisé
Interview with France 24 (February 2023)
Green Imperialism in the DR Congo
Blog for RS21 (June 2024)
Les pays africains ont perdu le contrôle au profit de sociétés minières étrangères : les trois étapes qui ont permis cela
Book excerpt for The Conversation (December 2023)
Technologies and transformations: Traces from a collective research project
Journal article in The Extractive Industries and Society (December 2022)
Productivity and profitability: Investigating the economic impact of gold mining mechanisation in Kamituga, DR Congo
Journal article in The Extractive Industries and Society (December 2022)
Productivité et profitabilité : une
analyse comparative basée sur l’impact
de la mécanisation dans l’EMAPE de l’or
en RDC
Working paper for University of Antwerp (August 2021)
Mines, communities, and states: The local politics of natural resource extraction in Africa
Book review for The Journal of Development Studies (May 2021)
Struggles over value: Corporate–state suppression of locally led mining
mechanisation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Journal article in Review of African Political Economy (February 2021)
La valeur de la filière minière artisanale
Webinar hosted by Intel Congo (September 2020)
Les effets socio-économiques de l’extraction de l’or
au Sud-Kivu : Le cas de Banro
Report for Maison des Mines du Kivu (July 2020)
The end of the African mining enclave? Domestic marginalization and labour fragmentation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Journal article in Development and Change (May 2020)
Gold from DR Congo
Podcast with Back to the Source (December 2019)
The end of the African mining enclave?
Blog for the International Institute of Social Studies (September 2019)
Labour
Low worker wages and high inequality
Blog for Africa is a Country (June 2020)
Mining labour conditions and economic trajectories in DRC
Educational piece for Norwegian Institute of Interntional Affairs (October 2019)
