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Suturing the city : living together in Congo's urban worlds / Filip De Boeck, text & Sammy Baloji, photography.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boeck, Filip de, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology, Urban.
- Manners and customs.
- Democratic Republic of the Congo--Social life and customs.
- Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Sociology, Urban--Congo (Democratic Republic).
- Ethnology--Congo (Democratic Republic).
- Ethnology.
- Congo (Democratic Republic).
- Genre:
- Photobooks -- England -- 2016.
- Physical Description:
- 328 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Autograph ABP, 2016.
- 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. 0In 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-319) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781899282197
- 189928219X
- OCLC:
- 953693222
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