Filip de Boeck: Suturing the City, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Suturing the City
- Living Together in Congo's Urban Worlds
- Publisher:
- Leuven University Press, 04/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9789462704558
- Item number:
- 12156845
- Volume:
- 330 Pages
- Weight:
- 1170 g
- Format:
- 248 x 204 mm
- Thickness:
- 24 mm
- Release date:
- 15.4.2025
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
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)
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