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Synopsis
"Both the camera and the pen, in a way, ultimately are colonial tools," writes Belgian anthropologist Filip De Boeck in the preface to this collaborative book with photographer Marie-Françoise Plissart. They sought to overcome the inherent bias of their instruments and produce a work that provided a history not only of the physical and visible urban reality of Kinshasa, but also of a second, invisible city, one composed of the immaterial architecture and infrastructure, the place's imaginative life. Both scholarly and accessible, the resulting work, born out of De Boeck's long engagement with the "urbanscapes" of Central Africa and Plissart's empathic eye, was shaped in dialogue with Kinshasa's own inhabitants and the ways they write, read, talk, dance and live in their city. The exhibition, out of which the book came won the Golden Lion prize at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2004.
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About the Author
Filip De Boeck is Professor of Anthropology at KU Leuven.
Review
"This is an important book, extraordinarily rich in ethnographic detail about Kinshasa. Scholars and graduate students will find this book very useful in understanding the urban realities of Kinshasa and more broadly the impact of globalization on African cities."―Urban Affairs Review
"If we are to advance a more grounded and differentiated understanding of African urban settlements, this kind of work is essential."―Edgar Pieterse, Director of the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town
"Rich as the book is with passion, imagery, and well-researched stories, it is readably in conversation with, and challenging, Western urban theory (whether Harvey, Foucault, Lefebvre, de Certeau, or others), but also with representations of Kinshasa and of the Congo."―Garth Myers, author of African Cities: Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice
"Particularly formative work on African cities."―Sarah Nuttall, Director of Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research
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