Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo's Urban Worlds

By Filip De Boeck and Sammy Baloji

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9462704554
• ISBN13: 9789462704558
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Leuven University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 2.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.0" x 9.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher