Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Suturing the City

Living Together in Congo's Urban Worlds

Av Filip De Boeck, Sammy Baloji

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An ethnographic and photographic investigation into the complex meanings of living in Congo's urban worlds today.Focusing upon the ‘urban now’, a moment suspended between lingering precolonial references, the broken dreams of a colonial past, and the not yet realised promises of neoliberal futures, this book provides an ethnographic and photographic investigation of the complex meanings of living – and living together – in Congo’s urban worlds today.The authors, anthropologist Filip De Boeck and photographer Sammy Baloji, take the reader on a tour of specific urban sites in Kinshasa and beyond. In their detailed analysis these sites emerge as suturing points in which the possibilities of collective urban action and dreams of a shared future continue to be explored.Reprint of Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo’s Urban Worlds, Filip De Boeck, Sammy Baloji (Autograph 2016)Look inside and read the preface >

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Utgivningsdatum: 2025-03-17
Mått: 195 x 249 x 27 mm
Vikt: 1 361 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 330
Förlag: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9789462704558

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Filip De Boeck is Professor of Anthropology at KU Leuven, whose research explores urban life, art, and imagination in Central Africa, particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Sammy Baloji is a visual artist based in Brussels and Lubumbashi. His work has been exhibited and published internationally.

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‘This brilliant collaboration between an anthropologist and a photographer has resulted in not only a handsome volume that does justice to word and image alike, but also something far more important – a beautifully successful balance between thoughtful ethnography, thought-provoking and appropriate theory, and a visual essay that sensitively and imaginatively investigates its themes rather than just illustrating them.’ - Christopher Morton, University of Oxford

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