Suturing the city
Subtitle: living together in Congo's urban worlds
By: Filip De Boeck, text & Sammy Baloji, photography
Contributors: Baloji, Sammy, illustrator
Publisher: Autograph ABP
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781899282197
Subjects: Social life and customs; Urban Sociology; Ethnology; Manners and customs; Sociologie
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-319) and index.