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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
Suturing the City' focuses 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 award-winning 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.
Subject
  • Sociology, Urban > Congo (Democratic Republic)
  • Ethnology > Congo (Democratic Republic)
  • Ethnology
  • Manners and customs
  • Sociology, Urban
  • Sociologie
  • Congo (Democratic Republic) > Social life and customs
  • Congo (Democratic Republic)
  • Moeurs et coutumes
  • Congo (ex-Zaïre)
Genre/Form
Photobooks – England – 2016.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-319) and index.
ISBN
  • 9781899282197
  • 189928219X
OCLC
  • ocn953693222
  • 953693222
  • SCSB-9029868
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries