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Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City

Categorie	Geschiedenis Afrika
Boeknummer	#286074
Titel	Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City
Auteur	Boeck, Filip De & Marie Françoise Plissart
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Leuven University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2014
ISBN10	9058679675
ISBN13	9789058679673
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	Reading African cities into contemporary theory - reprint of a richly illustrated reference work. In their internationally acclaimed publication 'Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City', anthropologist Filip De Boeck and photographer Marie-Françoise Plissart provide a history not only of the physical and visible urban reality that Kinshasa presents today, but also of a second, invisible city as it exists in the mind and imagination of its inhabitants. They bring to light a mirroring reality lurking underneath the surface of the visible world and explore the constant transactions that take place between these two levels in Kinshasa's urban scape. With the exhibition that accompanied the release of their Kinshasa book, the authors won a Golden Lion at the 11th International Architect... (Lees verder)ure Bienniale in Venice, 2004. This beautifully illustrated publication is now again made available. Based on longstanding field research, it provides insight into local social and cultural imaginaries, and thus in the imaginative ways in which local urban subjects continue to make sense of their worlds and invent cultural strategies to cope with the breakdown of urban infrastructure.
Pagina's	285
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 30,00

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