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Suturing the city : living together in Congo's urban worlds
- Title
- Suturing the city : living together in Congo's urban worlds / Filip De Boeck, text & Sammy Baloji, photography.
- Author
- Boeck, Filip de
- Publication
- London : Autograph ABP, 2016.
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- Additional Authors
- Baloji, Sammy
- Description
- 328 pages : color illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- "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 in Africa"--Jacket.
- Alternative Title
- Living together in Congo's urban worlds
- Subject
- Ethnology > Congo (Democratic Republic) > Pictorial works
- Sociology, Urban > Congo (Democratic Republic) > Pictorial works
- Urbanization > Congo (Democratic Republic) > Pictorial works
- Cities and towns > Congo (Democratic Republic) > Pictorial works
- Ethnology
- Manners and customs
- Sociology, Urban
- Congo (Democratic Republic) > Social life and customs > Pictorial works
- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Genre/Form
- Photobooks
- Photobooks.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-319) and index.
- Contents
- Preface: Suturing the city : living together in Congo's urban worlds -- The last post : Congo, (post- )colonialism and urban talkes 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.
- Call Number
- ReCAP 24-2454
- ISBN
- 9781899282197
- 189928219X
- OCLC
- 953693222
- Author
- Boeck, Filip de, author.
- Title
- Suturing the city : living together in Congo's urban worlds / Filip De Boeck, text & Sammy Baloji, photography.
- Publisher
- London : Autograph ABP, 2016.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-319) and index.
- Added Author
- Baloji, Sammy, photography.
- Research Call Number
- ReCAP 24-2454