Suturing the City
Living Together in Congo’s Urban Worlds
An ethnographic and photographic investigation into the complex meanings of living in Congo’s urban worlds today
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Specificaties
ISBN/EAN | 9789462704558 |
Auteur | Filip De Boeck |
Uitgever | Universitaire Pers Leuven |
Taal | Engels |
Uitvoering | Paperback / gebrocheerd |
Pagina's | 330 |
Lengte | 252.0 mm |
Breedte | 204.0 mm |
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.