Suturing the City

Living Together in Congo's Urban Worlds

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvFilip De Boeck,Sammy Baloji,Filip de Boeck

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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 >

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-03-17
Mått195 x 249 x 27 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor330
FörlagLeuven University Press
ISBN9789462704558

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Preface: Suturing the City. Living Together in Congo’s Urban Worlds The Last Post. Congo, (Post-)colonialism and Urban Tales of Unrest The Urban Politics of Syncopation Mountains I: Pic Sörensen Corpus Vile. Death and Expendable Youth in Kinshasa Mountains II: Pungulume ‘Illuminating the Hole’: Kinshasa’s Makeovers between Dream and Reality Ngaliema’s Revenge. Urban Expansion, Chiefs and The Politics of Land Coda: Occupation and the Politics of (Co-)Presence NotesReferencesIndexIndex of IllustrationsMap of Kinshasa

‘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