Description
About the Author
Filip De Boeck is Professor of Anthropology at KU Leuven. Marie-Francoise Plissart is a photographer whose solo exhibitions include A World without End (Museum of Photography in Antwerp, 2008).
Reviews
"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
Book Information
ISBN 9789058679673
Author Filip De Boeck
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Leuven University Press
Publisher Leuven University Press