{"id":56,"date":"2022-08-11T20:20:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T20:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/digitalgold\/?p=56"},"modified":"2022-09-16T07:24:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T07:24:35","slug":"interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/digitalgold\/interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories From a Local Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Kamituga region in the Democratic Republic of Congo is highly dependent on gold extraction. In order to get a differentiated view on the local economy, PhD candidate Gabriel Kamundala (University of Zurich) made interviews with workers and entrepreneurs of different professions and fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Surrounded by dust and noise<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The mine workers in the self-excavated mines face great danger and precarious conditions. <strong>Raymond Mulonda Tanga<\/strong> describes his situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RAYMOND_1080x1920_Letterbox_PH.mov\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/749153487?h=8e2e300e6e&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"443\" height=\"788\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Women in water<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Women workers buy the remains of the extraction from the miners and laboriously wash out the sparsely remaining gold. <strong>Salome Bitendanwa<\/strong>, a widow who struggles to feed her children, explains her work as a gold washer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SALOME_1080x1920_Letterbox_PH\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/749158857?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"443\" height=\"788\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>On the gold scale<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The mine workers sell the extracted gold to local traders. Here they also receive loans to pre-finance their work and their living.<strong> Santos Omben Kayanda<\/strong>, a gold buyer in Kamituga, gives insights into the local business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SANTOS_1080x1920_Letterbox_PH.mov\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/749172708?h=2026528b80&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"443\" height=\"788\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>In the stores<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The local economy in Kamituga depends substantially on gold extraction. The negative consequences of artisanal gold mining, such as labor exploitation and environmental hazards, are thus counterbalanced by positive effects for a poverty-stricken region. <strong>Vainquer Murhesa Ephrem<\/strong>, a pharmacy owner in Kamituga, discusses the local economy from his perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"VAINQUER_1080x1920_Letterbox_PH.mov\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/749177726?h=ab83aef101&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"443\" height=\"788\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Interviews by Gabriel Kamundala @ 2021 ZHdK<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kamituga region in the Democratic Republic of Congo is highly dependent on gold extraction. In order to get a differentiated view on the local economy, PhD candidate Gabriel Kamundala (University of Zurich) made interviews with workers and entrepreneurs of different professions and fields. Surrounded by dust and noise The mine workers in the self-excavated &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/digitalgold\/interviews\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stories From a Local Economy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/digitalgold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/digitalgold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/digitalgold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/digitalgold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/digitalgold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/digitalgold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/digitalgold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/digitalgold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/digitalgold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/digitalgold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}