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.

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.

Author: Filip de Boeck,Sammy Baloji
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 04/15/2025
Pages: 330
Weight: 2.58lbs
Size: 9.76h x 8.04w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9789462704558