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ANSO Tuesday Seminars
Tuesday
03
October
De Boeck Filip

Wide and Close, Above and Below. Kinshasa’s Troumatique

Filip de Boeck, University of Leuven
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Room S5, Maison de la paix, Geneva Graduate Institute

The ANSO Tuesday Seminar series is organized by the Anthropology and Sociology department at the Institute to discuss global questions from ethnographically-informed perspectives.

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Wide and Close, Above and Below. Kinshasa’s Troumatique

Using a set of aerial photographs as a starting point, I will reflect on what angle to adopt and how to position oneself in order to write an ethnography on the scale of the city, i.c. Kinshasa, the ever-growing capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

 

About the Speaker

A Professor of Anthropology at the University of Leuven, writer, film-maker and curator Filip De Boeck has conducted extensive field research in both rural and urban communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Co-authored with visual artist Sammy Baloji, his most recent book is Suturing the City.

Ruchel-Stockmans, K. (2019). Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo's Urban Worlds, Sammy Baloji. In T. Berghmans (Ed.), Photobook Belge. 1854 - Now (pp. 135-135). Hannibal / FOMU.

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