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Colonialism, Belgian Congo, History, Imperialism, Empires, Imperial History, Historical Anthropology
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Employment (5)

Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Brussels, BE

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Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Brussel, BE

2018-10-01 to present | Assistant Professor (History)
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Benoit Henriet

University of Oxford: Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

2017-07-01 to 2018-09-30 | Research Associate in the History of Haut Katanga (School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies)
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Benoit Henriet

Centre Marc Bloch: Berlin, Berlin, DE

2017-05-08 to 2017-06-23 | Postdoctoral short-term researcher
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Benoit Henriet

Université Saint-Louis: Brussels, BE

2016-12-16 to 2017-03-31 | Postdoctoral fellow (Centre de Recherches en Histoire du Droit et des Institutions)
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Benoit Henriet

Education and qualifications (3)

Université Saint-Louis: Brussels, BE

2012-09-15 to 2016-12-15 | Doctorate (Centre de Recherche en Histoire du Droit et des Institutions)
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Benoit Henriet

Université Libre de Bruxelles: Bruxelles, BE

2010-09-15 to 2012-09-08 | Master in History
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Benoit Henriet

Université Saint-Louis: Brussels, BE

2007-09-15 to 2010-06-30 | Bachelor in History
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Funding (3)

DIGICOLJUST - Colonial Violence, Subaltern Agency and Shared Archival Heritage: A Digital Platform of Colonial Judiciary Sources

2020-01 to 2022-12 | Grant
Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (Brussel, BE)
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Benoit Henriet

Comparing the Copperbelt: Political Culture and Knowledge Production in Central Africa

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PAI BeJust 2.0

2012-09 to 2016-09 | Grant
Belspo (Brussels, BE)
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Benoit Henriet

Works (28)

Repression. Was the Congo a Less Violent colony after Leopold II?

Colonial Congo
2024 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9782503598482
Contributors: Benoit Henriet; Amandine Lauro
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Chicotte

Une histoire de la Belgique en 100 objets
2024-04 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 978-2390252238
Contributors: Benoit Henriet
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Chicotte

Een geschiedenis van België in 100 voorwerpen
2024-04 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9789401488341
Contributors: Benoit Henriet
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Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession: by Thomas Hendriks, Durham, Duke University Press, 2022, xxiv+ 294 pp.

Canadian Journal of African Studies
2023 | Book review | Author
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Contributors: Benoit Henriet
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Archives of Military Courts in Colonial Congo

History in Africa
2023-05-29 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Benoit Henriet; Amandine Lauro; Renaud Juste
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‘Brave Men’ and ‘Pampered Children’: Male Bodies, Labour and Coming of Age in Belgian Congo

Gender & History
2023-02-17 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Benoit Henriet
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Belgian universities at the core of decolonization

Journal of Belgian History
2022 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Idesbald Godderis; Marnix Beyen; Anne-Sophie Gijs; Benoit Henriet; Sibo Kanobana; Romain Landmeters; Jean-Pierre Tshibangu; Patrizia Zanoni
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Decolonizing African history: Authenticite, cosmopolitanism and knowledge production in Zaire, 1971-1975

Journal of Eastern African Studies
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Henriet, Benoit
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« Zaïrois, qui est ton père ? »

Revue d'Histoire Contemporaine de l'Afrique
2022-02-17 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Benoit Henriet
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Colonial Impotence Virtue and Violence in a Congolese Concession (1911–1940)

Africa in Global History
2021-06-21 | Book | Author
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Contributors: Benoit Henriet
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Across the Copperbelt: Urban & Social Change in Central Africa’s Borderland Communities

2021-06-18 | Edited book | Editor
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Contributors: Benoit Henriet; Miles Larmer; Iva Pesa; Rachel Taylor; Enid Guene
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Beyond Paternalism: Pluralising Copperbelt Histories

Across the Copperbelt Urban & Social Change in Central Africa's Borderland Communities
2021-06-18 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9781847012661
Contributors: Benoit Henriet; Iva Pesa
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Introduction

Across the Copperbelt Urban & Social Change in Central Africa's Borderland Communities
2021-06-18 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9781847012661
Contributors: Benoit Henriet; Iva Pesa; Miles Larmer; Enid Guene; Rachel Taylor
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Repressie: was Congo na Leopold II een minder gewelddadige kolonie?

Koloniaal Congo. Een geschiedenis in vragen
2020 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9789463105224
Contributors: Benoit Henriet; Amandine Lauro
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Reuben A. Loffman, Church, State and Colonialism in Southeastern Congo, 1890-1962. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series

BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review
2020 | Book review | Author
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Contributors: Benoit Henriet
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Répression : le Congo après Léopold II, une colonie moins violente?

Le Congo colonial. Une histoire en questions
2020 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9782507056896
Contributors: Benoit Henriet; Amandine Lauro
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‘We Are Left with Barely Anything’: Colonial Rule, Dependency, and the Lever Brothers in the Belgian Congo, 1911–1960

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
2019-07-10 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0308-6534
Part of ISSN: 1743-9329
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Benoit Henriet
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Anxious ethnographers Daily Practices of Power in the Belgian Congo, 1930-1940

Vingtieme Siecle-revue D Histoire
2018 | Journal article
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Des ethnographes anxieux

Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire
2018 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0294-1759
Part of ISSN: 1950-6678
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Facing the Talking Snake: Witchcraft, Anxiety, and Sense-Making in Interwar Belgian Congo

International Journal of African Historical Studies
2018 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Benoit Henriet
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Facing the Talking Snake: Witchcraft, Anxiety, and Sense-Making in Interwar Belgian Congo

International Journal of African Historical Studies
2018 | Journal article
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BUFFALO BILL IN CENTRAL AFRICA - Tropical Cowboys: Westerns, Violence and Masculinity in Kinshasa. By Ch. Didier Gondola. Bloomington-Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016. Pp. xii + 254. $80.00, hardback (ISBN 9780253020666); $30.00, paperback (ISBN 9780253020772).

The Journal of African History
2018-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0021-8537
Part of ISSN: 1469-5138
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A Nervous State. Violence, Remedies and Reverie in Colonial Congo

Journal of Belgian History-revue Belge D Histoire Contemporaine-belgisch Tijdschrift Voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis
2017 | Journal article
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A Nervous State. Violence, Remedies and Reverie in Colonial Congo

JOURNAL OF BELGIAN HISTORY-REVUE BELGE D HISTOIRE CONTEMPORAINE-BELGISCH TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR NIEUWSTE GESCHIEDENIS
2017 | Book review
Part of ISSN: 0035-0869
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Benoit Henriet

Ordering the Wetlands. Policing and Legitimate Violence in the Leverville Concession (Belgian Congo, 1911-1920)

Policing in Colonial Empires: Cases, Connections, Boundaries (ca. 1850-1970)
2017 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 2807600646
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Benoit Henriet

“Travail et Progrès”: Labour legislation in Belgian Congo.

Rechtskultur
2017 | Journal article
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Benoit Henriet

"Elusive natives": Escaping colonial control in the Leverville oil palm concession, Belgian Congo, 1923-1941

Canadian Journal of African Studies
2015 | Journal article
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Benoit Henriet
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Colonial law in the making 


Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis / Revue d'Histoire du Droit / The Legal History Review
2015-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Benoît Henriet
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Peer review (1 review for 1 publication/grant)

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