Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo’s Urban Worlds
Product Description
An ethnographic and photographic investigation into the complex meanings of living 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. They examine how, amid the chaos of a decaying colonial legacy and the unfulfilled promises of neoliberal futures, certain sites emerge as suturing points where the possibilities of collective urban action and dreams of a shared future continue to be explored.
Published to accompany, and expand on, Sammy Baloji's touring exhibition of this work.
Filip De Boeck is professor of Anthropology at the Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa (IARA), a research unit of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Sammy Baloji is a visual artist based in Brussels and Lubumbashi. His work has been exhibited and published internationally.
Product Specification
Edited by: Mark Sealy
Pages: 329
Images: 171
Dimensions 195mm x 250mm
Hardcover with jacket
ISBN: 978-1-899282-19-7
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